This is part of a series called Michoacan 2025 Today we experienced something that I have always wanted to experience — going to a Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary. We visited the Sierra Chincua sanctuary, located within the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt at over 9500 feet in altitude. The temperatures at that altitude are pretty mild here (40-60…
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This is part of a series called Michoacan 2025 Well, we are off again! One of the nice things about living in Mexico in the winter is that it puts us in reasonably close proximity to explore other parts of the country. To date we have visited 16 of the 31 states of Mexico as…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today, we made our final stop before disembarking in Halifax — Corner Brook. It’s on the west coast of Newfoundland and is located in the Bay of Islands at the mouth of the Humber River — one of the “arms” that make up…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we made our first landing below the Arctic Circle — Red Bay, Labrador, and things are both the same and different. Similar to what we’ve seen above the Arctic Circle, this area is still pretty bleak with largely a barren landscape made…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we arrived in Sisimiut, the second largest city in Greenland. Sisimiut translates to “where the foxholes are” — apparently when the town was being expanded, there were foxholes all over the place. Not sure what the story is today. Anyway the population…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we visited Ilulissat, Greenland’s most famous town and the third largest by population with 4500 people. Of course, as long as we are examining population, I should mention that there are also 2500 sled dogs. These dogs are used by fishermen in…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today, we traversed the Navy Board Inlet, a body of water that separates Bylot Island and Baffin Island. It was an absolutely beautiful transit with high mountains and glaciers on both sides. People just sat by the windows all day staring at the…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we found ice again — in a big way! Croker Bay is a fjord on the south coast of Devon Island on the Lancaster Sound. The island itself was named by William Baffin in 1616 for Devon shire in England. It has…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today was a busy day! We started at about 6:00 am doing a slow pass by Leopold Island, situated in Lancaster Sound. Most of this island rises steeply from the sea, with cliffs as high as 1000 feet! The cliffs are made of…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Sea days provide an opportunity to learn through lectures, create art of different media, and perhaps help conduct some experiments. In the Science Lab today, we got to look at the water samples we had collected two days earlier to see what we…
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