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Entries for September 2014

Sachs Harbour Diary: August 2014

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Sachs Harbour Diary: August 2014
(September 18, 2014) ~ Contributed by Steve Insley, Sachs Harbour, NWTIt’s mid-August and I’m flying in to Sachs Harbour in the ISR (the Inuvialuit Settlement Region), a small hamlet in the western Canadian arctic. As the twin-engine turbo-prop’s drone finally changes pitch with our descent, I’m jumping from window to window scanning the ocean for any sign of my buoy. What I’m really after is the several-thousand dollar instrument attached to it. Not a thing. Two weeks earlier I had hea...

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