This is behind the BIG Kaktovik airport. hehe. above. In the distance you can see a line that is white just under the sky. That is where the ice starts to pile up as it gets pushed up in the shallows. It is about 1 mile away.
this is the Kaktovik airport. This is a bay in front of it and to the right and behind it is the sea.
That is the DEW or Distant early warning radar system in the distance across the tundra.
I was up there 2 years and 4 years later but don't have those pics on my laptop. It looks the same.That is the top of Alaska and the sea behind me. I am on the shore. You can't see the ice stacked up because it is about 1/2 a mile out and even hills look flat when all is white. I was watching a polar bear and it was walking away from me (me? really?) and he disappeared behind a snow hill I couldn't see until he went behind it. The snow will melt for maybe 3 months and then the cold will be back. I was in Barrow in July of 06 and it snowed! Then it got 60 degrees which feels pretty hot up there. The sun in the picture above this one is at 11 at night and will not go any lower than that for 6 months.
This is Nome on the west coast of Alaska about 1/2 way up. I am standing on the sea ice shooting this picture of the inhouse guy's brand new 102,000 dollar
bucket truck that got stuck because he tried to get off the road so we could see the Iron Dog guys go by. He got off too far. lol It took a 5 ton water truck to get him out. And it broke one of those hooks on the front before it freed him.
