Kayaking the Fjords of Ellesmere… (trip)

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Kayaking the Fjords of Ellesmere Island

  • Resolute Bay, Nunavut.
  • Boats, Barges & Small Ship Cruises
Canada

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from $9,250* per person16 DaysJuly, August
Luxury accommodations Exertion level: 3
Operator: Legendary Expeditions 12 people max
Ellesmere Island is one of the world's most pristine wilderness areas. In this dramatic fjordland we retrace the footsteps of the earliest Polar explorers, and in our kayaks we travel as the ancestral Inuit might have done. Our expeditions pass by numerous and hauntingly "alive" habitation and hunting sites of prehistoric peoples. Strewn along this coast are ancient winter house excavations, tent rings, kayak stands and stone fox traps - ruins of the Thule culture, people who lived along these shores a thousand years ago.

Twenty-four-hour sunlight accents the photographic potential with the magical back lighting of delicate woolly flowers or the glistening spray plumes of walrus and Narwhal blowing in the fjords during the wee hours of dawn. During the past 20 years we have nearly a hundred kayak expeditions on Ellesmere Island, and we remain convinced that this trip is the ultimate adventure for sea kayakers and Arctic aficionados alike.
Highlights

    * Expeditions follow the footsteps of polar explorers Otto Sverdrup and Adolphus Greeley.
    * A polar desert with dry, mild summers.
    * Exceptionally remote and pristine.
    * Scenery of deep fjords, jutting headlands, calving tidewater glaciers and icebergs. Glacial valleys and tundra of sedges, willows and Arctic poppies.
    * Dramatic arctic light for photography.
    * Extraordinary silence and solitude.

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Itinerary

Day 1: The group flies north to Resolute Bay from Ottawa with First Air. Upon arrival in Resolute, you will be transferred to South Camp Inn. You will be free to explore around Resolute Bay.

Day 2: You will board a chartered Twin Otter for a three hour flight to our drop-off site in Kane Basin. After a trip orientation meeting, you and your group will pack your kayaks and get ready to head into the fjord country.

Days 3-13: Ice conditions permitting, we will kayak from our drop-off site along to another approximately 130 kilometres (80 miles) away. Our direction of travel each day will be governed by such factors as wind, ice and tides, but some of the things we hope to see include the fantastic Thule winter village sites on Skraeling Island, as well as walrus hauled-out on ice pans. We'll paddle amongst a myriad of picturesque icebergs and then pull ashore to explore inland for muskoxen and Arctic hare. Throughout the course of the trip your guides will provide informal commentary on the flora, geology, birdlife and geographical features of the High Arctic.

Day 14: On this last day of our kayak travels we will pull ashore at a final camp site near the tundra airstrip that will be used for our air charter pick-up.

Days 15-16: The group will be picked up by Twin Otter and flown back to Resolute Bay; overnight at the South Camp Inn. The next day the group will be transferred to the Resolute airport in time for First Air's scheduled flight south to Ottawa.

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