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Digital Rabbit
Sep 17, 20192 min read
Sisimiut: Muskox Burgers, a Polar Plunge, and the Aurora
Sisimiut is the second-largest city in Greenland, after Nuuk. Although it is seventy-five kilometers north of the Arctic Circle, →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 16, 20192 min read
Ilulissat and Ilimanaq: The Unexpected Guests
The Greenland icecap meets the sea at the Ilulissat ice fjord via the Sermeq Kujalleq glacier. It is one of the most active and →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 14, 20191 min read
A Disko Day
Today we took the Zodiacs through Disko Fjord to Qeqertarsuaq, also known as Disko Island. It is largest island along Greenland’s →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 13, 20191 min read
Tasiusaq, Greenland: Lots of Vegetation!
Greenland is quite different from the pebbled and rocky land of the Canadian Arctic. It’s thick with vegetation and very squishy →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 12, 20191 min read
A Day at Sea: Heading for Greenland
Today we head for Greenland. It's a day to kick back and relax. I signed up for a beading workshop given by Susie, one of our →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 11, 20193 min read
Ausuittuq (Grise Fiord)—A Claim to the High Arctic
A day later than planned, we made it to Grise Fiord. The funeral that was supposed to happen yesterday did did not because the plane →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 10, 20191 min read
74 Degrees North
We were supposed to visit the hamlet of Grise Fjord today, the most northern hamlet in North America. But due to a death i


Digital Rabbit
Sep 9, 20191 min read
Dorest Glacier and More Bears
This morning we took a Zodiac tour of Dorset Glacier. The ice was amazing! The kayak program also started. Kayaking was →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 8, 20192 min read
Beechey Island: Dying in a Desolated Land
Today was another very windy day. We sailed past Prince Leopold Island, a migratory bird sanctuary whose vertical cliffs are →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 7, 20192 min read
A Polar Bear and Beluga Whales
When I woke up today, I looked forward to taking a watercolor workshop from Canadian landscape artist Andrew Sookrah. After →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 7, 20192 min read
High Winds but High Spirits
We deviated from the historic Northwest Passge by sailing through Bellot Strait. This helped us avoid sea ice that we would have →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 6, 20192 min read
Uqshuuqtuq or Gjøa Haven?
No matter which you choose, the name of this hamlet is difficult to pronounce. Uqshuuqtuq is the Inuit name and Gjøa Haven is →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 5, 20196 min read
A Visit to the HMS Erebus
For centuries, men searched for a shipping route from Europe through the Arctic waters to Asia. It wasn’t until 1906 that


Digital Rabbit
Sep 4, 20192 min read
Jenny Lind Island
No one knows why an Arctic island was named after the Swedish opera star Jenny Lind. She toured →

Digital Rabbit
Sep 3, 20193 min read
A Sea Day: Learning Lots and Hearing Rumors
Today turned out to be a sea day—steaming through Coronation Gulf. Our onboard marine biologist, Pierre Richard, said that →


Digital Rabbit
Sep 2, 20193 min read
Arriving Above the Arctic Circle
The cruise through the Northwest Passage started in Kugluktuk, a remote hamlet in Nunavut, Canada located above the Arctic Circle →


Digital Rabbit
Aug 13, 20191 min read
From the Loneliest Highway to the Most Populous State
Great Basin National Park sits on the eastern side of Nevada. To get to Califonia from there requires driving route 50, which is called →


Digital Rabbit
Aug 3, 20191 min read
Ancient Trees
Great Basin National Park is one of the few areas where you can find the bristlecone pine. A short hike (2.8 miles round trip) with some →


Digital Rabbit
Aug 2, 20192 min read
Caving and Gazing at Great Basin
Great Basin became a National Park in 1986. Its relatively isolated location attracts only 200,000 visitors per year. That’s approximately →
Digital Rabbit
Jul 31, 20192 min read
Learning Something Unexpected: 1p36 Deletion Syndrome
When I went to Snowbird I expected to learn about the wildflowers and animals in that area. Indeed I did. The pot gut squirrel →
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