Kiliuda Bay is pretty wild and vast. There are not very many cabins and people out there. We did see a number of bear hunters, a fishing boat prospecting for dungeness crab, and a couple of over flights of a flotilla of helicopters carrying the Arctic Care team on their way to provide health care in the villages. But that's about it. Mostly we were very much on our own - just us and the landscape.
It's early spring and everything is brown. Only a few plants have sprouted. So everything looked a bit bleak. But even while we were there we noticed signs of spring. We heard our first golden-crowned sparrow - 'oh save me' - and a migrating grey whale fed along the shore a mere 50 meters from our tent (Just past the teepee in the top photo). The whale surfaced every minute or so with a huge gasp of air.
The bottom few photos show our camp set up. It is always nice to travel by kayak because you can bring along the bulky extras that make for a pretty cushy camp. Fresh rather than eggs in a box, the big frying pan and teepee. We had it pretty good looking our meals on the woodstove.
Below is a link to the video Philip made of the trip. It captures our life on survey pretty darn well.
(Click here for a link to Philip's Video)
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