What was: Day 66 - Sachs Harbor
Sachs Harbor is cold. We brought a bunch of school kids onboard today for tours, like we did in Resolute Bay, except with fewer kids, since this town is a fraction of the size of Resolute (if I remember correctly there's 110 people in Sachs Harbor). I was a tour guide this time, leading the kids around from one station to another, where different scientists would talk about their projects.
First off, however - a little phenomenon known as Arctic smoke. You see this when some "warm" water (possibly a few degrees above freezing) hits some "cold" water (basically freezing), and it creates this bizarre smoke. The photo doesn't really do it justice...
Anyway, the kids. The town is so small it doesn't have a dock, so we had to fly them in four at a time via helicopter:
Then the learning begins!
Dany shares his wisdom in the rosette shack:
In my lab, the biggest troublemaker seems to be paying attention:
Annnd after a few other things that I don't have photos of, off they go again!
One girl had very interesting eyes...
3 comments:
I don't see anything too interesting about her eyes, but her eyebrows are pretty bushy...
Don't be mean. If you had met her, you would understand. I'm sorry the photograph didn't work.
I understand...Sachs used to be a whaling community. Different races came to find the wealth of the north and their DNA remains. Read up on whaling history of this area. Thanks for memory evoking pics. Donald...
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