BACK to DAY 30 - https://arcticnorthwestpassage.blogspot.com/2019/07/20190730-day-30-noon-report-2019.html
Departed Tuktoyaktuk 20190731-0600 hours.
20190731-1200 hrs. Noon Report
GPS 70° 11′ 58″ N, 131° 07′ 02″ W
FO ROB 3,469 - 85 = 3,384 gallons
PW full (RO) - secured off to protect from silt damage.
Using main engines' heat to evaporate and make freshwater
8 POB All Well
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Braya pilosa is a long-lived perennial flowering plant of the mustard family known by the common name hairy braya. It has one to many stems 4–12 cm long, erect to ascending to almost prostrate and moderately to densely hairy, and can be distinguished from other Braya species by its large flowers and globose fruits with very long styles. The plant arises from a tuft of basal leaves, with white flowers arranged in dense clusters. Its range is limited to the unglaciated portions of Cape Bathurst and Baillie Islands on the shore of the Beaufort Sea in the Northwest Territories, and it is listed at G2 - imperiled by NatureServe and endangered by the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada (COSEWIC). Its chief threats are loss of habitat through rapid coastal erosion and saline wash from storm surges, and by melting permafrost.
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Departed Tuktoyaktuk 20190731-0600 hours.
20190731-1200 hrs. Noon Report
GPS 70° 11′ 58″ N, 131° 07′ 02″ W
FO ROB 3,469 - 85 = 3,384 gallons
PW full (RO) - secured off to protect from silt damage.
Using main engines' heat to evaporate and make freshwater
8 POB All Well
Enroute tomorrow we will consider a transit and brief stop in Snow Goose Passage with a skiff to shore to see a unique mustard plant only growing here. Keep a sharp eye... the island once had a Hudson's Bay Trading Company.
The first European to discover Baille Island was John Richardson in 1826, who also named it. It was again visited by Richardson and John Rae, while searching the Northwest Passage for Franklin's lost expedition. In 1915, the Hudson's Bay Company established a trading post on the island. While the post was being set up, it was visited by competing trader Christian Theodore Pedersen. By the 1920s, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police had established a detachment on the island. It was at Baillie Island, in 1928, after returning from Cambridge Bay that Inspector Kemp, the Commanding Officer for the Western Arctic, appointed Henry Larsen captain of the St. Roch.
Now you know a slice more of the Arctic Northwest Passage history...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Bathurst
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DTG 177nn to Smoking Hills @8.5kts = 21 hours
ETA Smoking Hills 20190801-0900 hours
Plus whatever time is spent in Snow Goose Pass... there is no hurry... we are waiting on Queen Maud et al sea ice to melt so just as well take and enjoy the full Monty tour...
Oh that smell of hundreds of years of coal shale burning in the fresh morning air... can't wait... to lapse back to an earlier time... the hell of it...
I Love The Smell Of Napalm In The Morning - Apocalypse Now
Ice blockage at Cape Bathurst? (this is a good time to have a VA)
AHEAD to DAY 32 - n/a
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