Activities -2008

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polar bear on ice

In 2007 while working with Polar Sea Adventures, we came across three Polar Bears that were feeding on seal.  They proved to be more interested in eating than in us. So, I took advantage of this opportunity. 
Location North 72 degrees 44.058 minutes; West 075 degrees 57.102 minutes or about a dozen miles off northeastern tip of Baffin Island on the ice of Baffin Bay.

jellyfish

Life at the Arctic's "Floe Edge" returns in May and June. Life returns as a web of life forms from the smallest such as jelly fish ( sea gooseberry / Pleurobrachia Pileus) to the largest -- the Polar Bear.
This image was made in the open water of a small lead off the southeastern end of Bylot Island North 72 degrees 49.433 minutes;  West 076 degrees 34.672 minutes."


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