Reindeer for dinner!

We ate good here tonight! Yesterday Ira (our resident cook) shot a reindeer for us to eat. About five of us kids hiked to where Ira shot the reindeer and watched as he gutted it and cut up the meat. Then we hauled the meat back to camp. The weather here yesterday was very stormy. At points during the day the wind was gusting as strong as 30 mph. Today we worked on excavating the remains of the historic kiiyaq a.k.a. men’s house. Then six of us kayaked with Chris north towards Cape Algonquin. We kayaked in double kayaks and my partner was Oscar. It was really easy paddling on the way out. We saw puffins, pelagic cormorants, seagulls, snow buntings and a few other birds whose names I have not yet learned. We also paddled by the dead whale. It’s still there and still stinky, although the ocean has now washed it farther ashore. On the way back Oscar and I were the first people back to camp. When I was putting my rudder up right before we came ashore I dropped my paddle. Oscar paddled us over to the paddle and as he reached for it we started to tip. He tried to stop us from tipping. I didn’t try to stop us because I sort of wanted to try tipping into the ocean. After we tipped we pulled our kayak to shore. Then Oscar and I dunked our heads into the stream that flows in front of camp. Long story short; we both got really really bad brain freezes. All in all we are having a really extraordinary time here at Nash Harbor.

~Jessica~

P.S. Watch Martin’s video on the tourists!

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