The tanks never showed the slightest chance of failure after that, and the small engine worked perfectly. However, our confidence in the equipment had gone and we agreed not to go too far from Dog[…]
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Month: October 2018
Sinking Boat And Then The Engine Cut Out
When our re-supply departed, we set about inflating the boat and planning expeditions across Dog Island Sound. Henry Island and points north held obvious interest, particularly Spruce Island and Carey Island. All the lanes between[…]
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The Ice Disappears as Polar Bears Prowl!
Eventually a storm arrived of such magnitude that all the ice disappeared. Yet again the tents flapped incessantly and water rose on our campsite to alarming levels. During the night, we heard crews up and[…]
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Life on Dog Island
For two weeks we waited for the ice to clear. There was simply too much of it for the tide to shift. The bottle-neck of grounded ice at the head of our bay was eventually[…]
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Arctic Char and Baloney
You could argue that in an emergency we could have called in a helicopter using the short wave radio. We never tried, and it was never offered. So we decided to do as much on[…]
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Landing on the island and batoning down the hatches
Eventually the hour long boat trip from Nain through rough, cold sea came to an end. We entered the bottle-shaped bay through the throat-passage and discovered an inner kingdom. We headed towards a series of[…]
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Outward Journey
Icebound has some scenes based on my outward journey. The boat trip from Nain out to Dog Island is greyscale in my memory. The overloaded boat ran low in the water so that the bow[…]
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Dog Island
The island on which Ed lands is Dog Island. There is indeed an island of this name. If you were to look at Google maps and enter “Nain, Labrador”, you will find it to the[…]
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Icebound – Book Launch Tuesday 30th October
When Edryd (Ed) Evans accepts a summer assignment to survey an island in Arctic Canada, he believes he will be travelling to a place of safety, far from the travails that have afflicted his life.[…]
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