Flight from Resolute to Ottawa, August 10

Some photos from my trip home to Ottawa from Resolute on August 10.

Approaching Arctic Bay from the west:

Leaving Arctic Bay:

Glaciers outside of Pond Inlet, after leaving.  I wasn't on the spectacular Sirmilik side of the plane, but I enjoyed the glaciers I did get from the west side of the plane:

I took oodles of photos of the textured rock of Baffin Island, but here is just one to give you a taste:

Leaving Iqaluit, I got some good photos of the city:

Then it was mostly clouds until we lost some altitude coming into Ottawa.  Here is the Quebec side just before we cross the Ottawa river:

Petrie Island, you can see the beach at the northeast corner of the island:

Thunderstorm south of Ottawa as we landed:

Flight from Grise Fiord to Resolute, August 9

The weather was amazing on the flight to Resolute.  There was some local fog, which made the pilots fly in a circle just outside of town to gain altitude quickly, which gave great views of the tops of mountains that usually the plane is below on approach or takeoff.

The next two are of rivers and canyons on Cornwallis Island, as we approached Resolute from north of town.

View from my hotel room in Resolute.

By the time I got out for my walk, the weather had become overcast.  The fuel ship was in town, so I went for a beach walk to have a look at it.

More good photos to come from the flight the next day from Resolute to Ottawa.

August in Grise Fiord: Ice and a cruise ship

I just have a few photos from August in Grise Fiord.

Here are a few of ice that came ashore with the tide on August 2:

On Saturday, August 3, the cruise ship L'Austral came to town.  Here are some of the passengers heading off on a short walking tour.  They are all wearing a coat that has a grab-handle on the back, I guess in case anyone falls overboard on the boats that bring them to shore:

On August 4, the tides were really low, and I took a walk into the bay next to town that had a lot of the bottom exposed that is usually under water.  Here are some photos of the ice that was beached along the shore:

And that is it for my photos, or the interesting ones at least, from August in Grise Fiord.  I got some good pictures on the flight out as well, I'll be back with those soon.

Flight to Grise Fiord

Here are a few photos from my flight from Resolute to Grise Fiord, on July 19.  It was raining and we were flying in and above cloud for most of the trip, but I got a few good photos at the end, as we approached the town.

These last two are from the walk I took that evening:

Flight from Iqaluit to Resolute, July 17, 2019

I did another work trip to Grise Fiord from July 17 to August 10.  I got some good photos on the flights, so I thought I should update my sadly neglected blog.

The first couple are of the airport in Iqaluit on takeoff:

River just north of Iqaluit:

I loved the pattern of these clouds over Baffin Island, around halfway between Iqaluit and Pond Inlet:

A river canyon as we approach Pond Inlet:

River near Pond Inlet:

Our plane on the ground in Pond Inlet:

Got some views of the glaciers in Sirmilik National Park as we flew out of Pond Inlet:

These photos are as we approach Arctic Bay (the flight was a bit of a milk run, which is good for sightseeing):

There is a waterfall in this photo, but it seems to go underground as it's not visible going over the cliffs:

I took this from the front steps of the airport terminal in Arctic Bay:

Next four photos are of the Uluksan Peninsula, flying out of Arctic Bay:

The St. George Society Cliffs:

Crossing a last lobe of Baffin Island before we head over the arctic ocean to Resolute:

Some broken up ice:

This is from my evening walk in Resolute, from the top of the hill behind town, looking southwest:

There is not a lot of vegetation around Resolute, but here are some tiny flowers on the hill:

View of Resolute from the hill:

I'll be back soon with some photos from my flight on July 19 to Grise Fiord.