Oct 4 2022

Saglek


1:53pm on 2022.10.04 by Torngat national park

Day 10: Saglek – park hiking is cancelled, unfortunately.

During the briefing yesterday, Sarah said very few people has visited the Torngat national park, all about 500 because of its remoteness.

Watching the sun rises (7:32am; set 6:59pm) from our balcony. Actually the orange light woke me up – we leave the curtain open. I made coffee ⇓

8:01am and rainbow at 9:40

The boat docked at Seglek at 12 noon. They showed the movie Secrets of the Whales (2021; trailer), produced by James Cameron, Brian Skerry photographer; narrated by Sigourney Weaver @ 9:30am. The sun never left us; and I even saw a rainbow, faintly visible.

11:34am, two serious hikers are warming up in the pool … 

 

… then right before lunch at 12 noon, the ship announced that the hike in the park is cancelled due to rough water. The white-capping is all over the place. Too rough to land, that’s for sure. The ship circling the park for hours.

Oh well, here is the sunset

We danced into the night, Ren