Up at 4.30am this morning and can’t get back to sleep. Go down to the Internet cafe and process some photos for the blog, anticipating the posts when I get to Edmonton….woo hoo!

We go ashore for a walk and it’s good to stretch the legs for 5-6 kms……more Thule hut remains to be seen, and a brown bear paw print in the estuary sand! The next best thing to seeing the bear itself. 

Deb feels good and is doing a ‘ I feel on top of the world’ pose. The other photo is of her, her husband Jim and Jean – the 3 of them have been mates from previous Lindbland voyages. We all get on very well together.

Ray, the ‘Icemaster’ was at our dinner table tonight and had lots of interesting stories to tell about Ellesmere Island (towards which we are headed) and the history of the Hudson Bay Co…..and about himself and brothers in the ship navigation game. Fascinating!