This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we visited Ulukhaktok (previously named Holman), an Inuit community of around 450 people. It sits on the west coast of Victoria Island, which is the ninth largest island on earth. The name translates to “where there is ulu material,” which refers to…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today was another sea day on our trip. We generally like sea days because they provide an opportunity to relax, catch up on reading or writing, and maybe attend some lectures. But there is one thing that I truly appreciate about cruising on…
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This is part of a series called Northwest Passage et al 2024 Today we did our first landing on Herschel Island (or Qikiqtaruk), a 45 sq. mile sedimentary stand of land that was thrust up by a lobe of Laurentide glacier ice. It is the Yukon’s only large offshore island. Herschel Island is largely rolling…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 All good things must come to an end, and yes, this trip did too. We arrived early in the morning after a voyage of 9,197 nautical miles, and the debarkation process began. While it was only 44 days earlier (only!), the time flew by…
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This is part of a series called Northern Pacific Wanderings 2024 We are now close to the end of our cruise. Today we pulled into Nanaimo, the so-called “Harbour City” almost directly across the Georgia Strait from Vancouver, our debarkation point. We once spent the night in Nanaimo on our boat as we were heading…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 The last part of our Eastern Canada swing was in southern Nova Scotia, an area that has both impacted and been impacted by history, generally played out by the four groups who lived there over time — the indigenous Mi’kMaw people; the French; the Acadians…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 After a great time in PEI, it was time to move on to New Brunswick to experience the up to 50 foot tidal shifts in the Bay of Fundy. While he had arrived on PEI from Nova Scotia, we left PEI on the Confederation Bridge,…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 Prince Edward Island (PEI) is always a place I wanted to visit. My parents took me as far as New Brunswick once, but we never crossed the ferry from there (now a bridge). I also recently heard that mu grandmother had her honeymoon there. This…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 One of the things we wanted to see while in Nova Scotia was Louisbourg Fortress, a reconstructed historic site that serves as a living history museum, re-enacting life as it would have been for the French soldiers and townspeople in 1745. The drive over was…
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This is part of a series called Eastern Canada 2018 Well, we are off on another adventure! This time, we are continuing the Eastern Canada swing we did last year, focusing on Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and New Brunswick. We are starting in Halifax and doing somewhat of a figure 8, ending upwhere we…
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