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Vermont Fall Colours
I’ve never experienced East Coast leaf season, so when the Backcountry Journeys Vermont Fall Colors workshop (strangely all Backcountry Journeys trips are called workshops, not journeys) opened up and my travel buddy, Dianne, suggested we go, I jumped at the chance. That was in February 2025. While I am very much looking forward to luxuriating…
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Iqaluit and home
This morning we left the Ocean Nova for the last time and landed in Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, population around 9,000. As our charter flight was not scheduled to leave until 2 pm, we loaded into buses for a tour of the city. The young woman (at least she looked young to me!) who…
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Ikirasaujaq Killiq (Jackman Sound)
It is amazing that every morning on this trip I get up and we are somewhere very different and somewhere more beautiful than the day before. I looked out my window at Jackman Sound and immediately went up on deck to take a video of where we had anchored. This is the last day of…
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Resolution Island
Today was a double-warm-dress day: a bracing zodiac cruise in the morning and a wet landing following dinner. Sadly I was concentrating so hard on getting all my warm layers on in the right order – extra socks first or rain pants? – and readjusting my life jacket for the extra layers, that I forgot…
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Tursukattaq Fiord
Early this morning, I went out on deck to view the calm water and interesting post-sunrise sky. I am repeatedly amazed at the beauty of the Arctic. After breakfast, we returned to the Qanattalik (place with tent poles) Fiord that we visited a few days ago. See map above. It turns out that there are…
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Salluit, Nunavik
We returned to Nunavik today, crossing the Hudson Strait again. See the map above. The very friendly community of Salluit extended an incredibly warm welcome to us. Following a walking tour of the village and lunch with the elders on the ship, we returned for a joyful community gathering.
