Hello faithful followers,
Jack is in Resolute Bay. He arrived there yesterday afternoon.
It has been amazing how he has found places to stay.
It turns out that a fellow, a friend my sister knew, who was at school here in Vancouver,
has a job up there and Jack has made the connection. Ahh a real bed and hot water =)
Here he is at Cambridge Bay Day 11
Two of the wild things!!!!
Here is the plane in Resolute Bay.
If you look closely you can see the bright yellow wing covers which means it must be freezing or snowing.
The pics may be too small, sorry it is the way he sends them to save on bandwidth when sending.
In an email Jack says;
Weather not looking so good today - will see what happens changes quickly -
I can't imagine those guys doing NWP waiting for ice to break, now July - oct? And that's with warmer world now.
This is as far north as I go as did NWP. Looks like an interesting place as its a jump off point to North Pole and some pretty areas on els mere island -
but there's only so much time Etc to see all the special areas of Canada ! Pond inlets nickname is Vancouver of the north :)
In a text he told me he was going to do some local flying around to be sure he used ALL of the barrel of gas he had shipped there.... was a pretty price.
Makes mainland gas prices look like pennies a gallon =) The early explorers certainly did not have that luxury!!
It has been so interesting seeing how connected one can still be so far up north.
All of this has been possible because he did so much prep work contacting the folks at every airport he planned to stop.
Site info: Resolute is one of Canada's northernmost communities and is second only to Grise Fiord on Ellesmere Island
(Alert and Eureka are more northerly but are not considered towns – just military outposts and weather stations).
It is also one of the coldest inhabited places in the world, with an average yearly temperature of −15.7 °C (3.7 °F).
As of the 2006 census the population was 229, an increase of 6.5% from the 2001 census.
Like in most other northern communities, the roads and most of the terrain are all gravel.
Jack has also been exceedingly grateful for the "ForeFlight" app. I wonder if they are tracking him too?
He is now on a first name basis with the NAV Canada flight report coordinators.
I am sure they all know him by name now and are watching his travels as well.
So I believe the next stop will be Baffin Island when the weather is right.
We will continue to follow his adventure and pick up some of the administrative paperwork duties he didn't quite finish before he left.=)
We are starting to sell off some of his toys =) Besides when he returns all he will want is a bigger plane.... LOL
Stay safe Captain Jack, allot of folks are watching you =)
Hugs
posted by Jo