Joyce Pinsker: Pack ice in Baffin Bay - the ice-strengthened hull of the Sylvia Earle is an impressive Class 1A for polar sailing
Joyce Pinsker: Icebergs in Baffin Bay
Joyce Pinsker: Iceberg detail
Joyce Pinsker: Monumental iceberg, the size of a huge barn
Joyce Pinsker: View from our cabin 708 on the MV Sylvia Earle
Joyce Pinsker: Ice chart - red and orange indicate thick pack ice that flummoxed our continuation of Northwest Passage to Cambridge Bay
Joyce Pinsker: Heavy pack ice in Pond Inlet prevented us from completing customs (we headed to Resolute)
Joyce Pinsker: Moving through the ice
Joyce Pinsker: Icepack in Baffin Bay
Joyce Pinsker: Captain Artem taking a break from the bridge
Joyce Pinsker: Polar bear and two cubs hunting for seals on the ice pack
Joyce Pinsker: Moody late afternoon on Baffin Bay
Joyce Pinsker: Resolute, on Cornwallis Island, is Canada's 2nd most northerly community
Joyce Pinsker: Resolute - it has a population of under 200
Joyce Pinsker: Canada Customs officials arriving at our ship
Joyce Pinsker: Paul at Resolute Bay, waiting to clear customs
Joyce Pinsker: Resolute - taken from the pool/spa deck
Joyce Pinsker: Passing the only other ship we saw on our trip
Joyce Pinsker: Dundas Harbour, Devon Island
Joyce Pinsker: Armed polar bear lookout, Morin Point, Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker: Thule (ancestors of modern Inuit) archeological site at Morin Point
Joyce Pinsker: Remains of Thule encampment
Joyce Pinsker: Paul making his way across boggy terrain at Morin Point
Joyce Pinsker: Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker: Dundas Harbour was intermittently settle in first half of the 20th c to maintain a patrol presence
Joyce Pinsker: Mountain avens, Dundas Harbour
Joyce Pinsker: Devon Island, south coast
Joyce Pinsker: Devon Island
Joyce Pinsker: Approaching Franklin expedition gravesite on Beechey Island
Joyce Pinsker: Our historian Nina