It’s colder today, 0 degree C. I’ve purchased a ‘buff’ on board ship, to shield the face from the bitter winds.
Another walk ashore….along raised beaches, the result of rebound of the land after ice sheets melted about 100,000 years ago. We saw the best example of a Thule site located on a beach terrace, which once would have been the shoreline of a shallow cove in the Bay. There were 10 Bowhead whale skulls used as construction in the walls of a Thule house. There are some existing brave flowers and lichen (Red Elegant Sunburst) and yellow moss (nmium species)… that brave this bleak, harsh and overall barren landscape….and muskox (we saw hoof prints)….what a desolate spot.

Beluga whales were also sighted today…the whites of their back arch just above the waterline giving you the impression that there’s a small lapping wave breaking, but no, it’s the whale.

Kim Campbell, ex Prime Minister of Canada is aboard the ship as a ‘Global Perspectives’ speaker and I, together with 6 others, had the honour of being invited to her table for dinner in the Chart Room.