DAY 16 - At Sea

Across the Larson Sound and into the James Ross Strait, en route to Gjoa Haven

Mrs M took the opportunity to knock off a quick sketch of an ex auk - a guillemot to you and me. Apparently if a young auk loses its parents, then it can be taken under the wing of another guillemot, which is awkward.

That bit has not yet made it into scientific fact.

Great lecture on Navigation which confirmed that, as I'm sure you all know, the English duped the French into keeping the metre rod in exchange for establishing the starting point for Longitude as the Greenwich Meridian at 0° Longitude.

After all, who was ever going to use metres again when we had fathoms, cables, miles, yards, feet and inches?

William brings out the Calvados..

Mrs M insisted on a posed picture in the middle of a fire drill....

Final lecture of the day was from our resident historian and bed time story teller, Benjamin, continuing the drama saga of the Northwest Passage exploration.

The evening sea was glassy smooth

About one month before we sailed, the NASA sea ice image looked like this:-

The red colour indicates nearly 100% sea ice coverage

Half way through our voyage, the image looked like this:-

The summer of 2023 has seen one of the most ice free years on record for this part of the world.

Peps Log : Lecture on animal adaptions in the Arctic

Technical drawing hour

Roald Amundsen trip talk (fell asleep in the middle)

Lovely evening

Saw Roald Amundsen ship through the window!! (Hurtigruten ship)

MS Roald Amundsen passes us to port on its way to Halifax having done the Northwest Passage from Vancouver

The two ships stopped within 100m of each other for about 10mins, close enough for the crews to call out to their friends