Wednesday 3 August 2011

Arctic Circle Aug 1

Yup we went to the Arctic Circle on a fly/drive tour.  We flew up in a 10 seater and poor Bill didn't have a good flight.  Good thing they had bags!  So that put him off for the rest of trip.  I was fine on the plane but another woman was not well either.  A lot of dipping and he would lower the wings to the right or left so we could see whatever he was pointing out.  The pipe line is impressive.  We saw a few moose and a porcupine running across the road.  He showed us the premafrost which is underneath the ground and does not thaw.  And of course we stopped at the Arctic Circle to get our pictures taken.  The trip was long, flew up at 1 and got home after midnight.
Our plane and Pilot, Steve

Arctic Circle

Nancy holding up pipe line

Pipe Line

Bridge over Yukon River, 5th largest in volume
Opps, just realized I forgot about July 31st.  I'll have to post it later as we are almost ready to leave for Denali.
Cheers, nrm & bam

2 comments:

Khantiki said...

Sorry to hear that Bill had a rough flight. I probably would have been the same. Any photos from the air?

Danni said...

Nancy! How could you leave now who is holding up the pipeline? if it falls its all on you...