Hard day of work. Cold and wet. We stayed longer and finished the site we were working on because none of us wanted to come back. Thank God for REI rain gear. I laid in water all day and still stayed dry.
After dinner and a lecture Dr. Kershaw took us for a ride. Jen dug a hole down to the ice and it was only about 8 inches down. Dr, Kershaw told us it would melt a bit more before summer was done, but after that it was the Permafrost.
Then we went over to Twin Lakes and saw our first Polar Bear. It was about 1.5 miles away and moving fast. Even with the binoculars it was too far to see. But the bottom line is "we saw a bear". Yoo Hoo
After that we went to the place I wanted to see. The Boreal forest. It was beautiful with lichens all over the ground that looked like snow. These lichens had been growing for 100 years and we tramped them down. I felt really bad until Dr Kershaw explained that one moose would do more damage than all of us put together.
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