| Jones Adventures 2005 Arctic Narwhal Adventure - photos | ||
 Our group listens as Dave tells us what he expects of the coming 10 days. |
 On the boat and heading to Koluctoo Bay. The weather was overcast, misty and unsettled. |
 Unloading the boat and getting ready to set up camp. Although it is still daylight the time was 8:00 PM. |
 View of camp as we motor away for our first exciting day of narwhal watching. |
 The first morning couldn't have been nicer. There was no wind, so the water was mirror-like. |
 This was the first iceberg we saw as we headed to Milne Inlet. There was almost always a berg in sight. |
 Look closely and you can see the tusk visible just below the surface of the water. |
 On our second whale watch day we observed a steady passing stream of narwhals for 25 minutes. |
 From our observation point at Bruce Head we were sometimes within 20 feet of the passing narwhal. |
 Curious Ring Seals watched us watching them. Several times these rascals swam beneath our boat. |
 Getting too close to an iceberg can be dangerous. Notice the newly calved baby bergs to the right. |
 Arctic Char must conquer the falls in order to reach the lake where they will spawn. |
 16 lbs 8 ozs. Arctic Char was 12 oz short of the line class record for 2 lb. line. Fish to 19 lbs were taken |
 Look closely and you can see the dark images which are the hundreds (thousand?) of Arctic Char that we saw swimming just below the falls. They gather here and build their courage to swim up the falls in order to reach the lake where they will spawn. We saw huge char that must have weighed 40 pounds or more. |
 Arctic fox prints on the beach. We never saw the fox who made these, but these prints were fresh. |
| In late September or October I will be loading many more prints from this trip onto the website. | To get more info about our 2006 August trip to see the narwhal click here | As soon as I receive the trip log from our trip's unofficial biographer, Katie Yelenick, I will place that on line. |
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