Baffin Island: Frobisher Bay
Frobisher Bay is a 240km long wide fjord that leads to Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut. The coastline is stark and spectacular – tall mountains rising from the water, glaciers descending and plunging into the ocean or hanging in the valleys, massive unnamed waterfalls falling everywhere you look, icebergs stuck near shoreline. A spectacular zodiac exploration of the Charles Bay along the route was a great opportunity to see this up close and personal. And I managed to pull out a nice chunk of “black ice” floating near a glacier’s mouth (actually it’s not black but absolutely transparent and appears black when floating in the ocean water). Black ice makes for the most perfect ice for drinks on the rocks – being hundreds of years old and supper compressed under the weight of a glacier it almost doesn’t melt at all.
