Driving Amongst the Icebergs

Today, Monday August 6, 2012, Jacquie and I were taking the dogs out for a little drive.  We usually go to Sylvia Grinnell Park on weekends and give the dogs a long walk.  On the way there, we noticed a couple of vehicles out driving on the bay amongst the iceburgs.  That looked like a lot of fun to us.............. so off we went and took a drive out on the bay floor amongst all of the ice.  There were more icebergs than we could count. 



When the tide goes out which today was over 30 feet there is a huge amount of the bay that drains out.  So we followed the lead of a couple of other vehicles and went for a drive among the icebergs.  The ice itself has been blown in from Davis Strait.  How it got to Davis Strait is anyones guess, however a theory that we heard the other night is that a huge chunk of ice touted to be over 700 square miles broke off from Greenland and then broke up into the smaller chucks that made itself into Iqaluit harbour of Frobisher Bay.

It was an eerie feeling driving on the sea floor where there had been 20-30 feet of water just a few hours earlier.  Admittedly, we were a little nevous about getting stuck, since the next high tide is around 10:40 tonight and getting stuck would mean the jeep would get a little wet.     On the other hand, it was an experiece that is hard to descibe. Many of the icebergs were much bigger than the jeep and there were just hundreds of them.  We went out a few hundred yards and drove around and through many huge chunks of ice.   When we got back in towards shore we stopped and took a few pictures. 

It is hard to describe the size of these ice chunks.  There were many that were larger than the one below:

So I'm sure Jacquie and I are two of the few that can boast the experience of driving on the sea floor around a number of icebergs.  That being said, it is an experience that we enjoyed and are glad we had the chance to experience it.