Our friends Lloyd and Monique
We left at approx. 10:30AM and started walking along the eastern side of Frobisher Bay from Apex. We started by going up into the hills along the side of the bay. The first hill was quite steep, however once up on top, we were able to walk along the plateau going up and down many hills. There were beautiful red flowers all along the walk, that looked a lot like a hard wood forest down south.
Near the beginning of our trek we saw a huge fox. It may have been an arctic fox, however it had the normal red colours with the big bushy tail. Only it was huge, as far as a fox goes, double the size of any fox I've seen down south.
The dogs were haveing a great time on the walk and considering they are 13.5 and 9.5 years old and the walk was on very uneven ground, they did a great job.
We walked for about 1.5 hours to the end of Tarr Inlet and then stopped for lunch. Being my birthday, Monique brought a chocolate cupcake and they put a grape in it to simulate a candle. It was great. Jacquie, Lloyd and Monique sang happy birthday - they're amazing singers. (scared the dogs a little - just saying)
As we headed out on our walk the tide was in and as time went on, the tide receded and we thought we would walk across the tidal flats over to the other side and climb the large hill towards the main part of the Bay. Because the tide had just receded, the flats hadn't had time to drain. There were areas that still had a foot or two of water. We tried many different routes, jumping accross little streams and trying to get across the flats. After a half hour or so, we decided the only way for us to get across would be to get very wet. Since it was only about 7C and very windy, we abandoned the idea of crossing the flats, however walked along the eastern side of the flats all the way back to Apex.
While we were trying to find our way across the tidal flats, we found a caribou horn and had a little fun with it.
The walk back to Apex took about 2 hours. The wind was blowing at 50km per hour with gusts to 70 km per hour. It was also quite cool. The good news is we didn't see any polar bears, although we saw a large number of baby shrimp. The little pools on the title flats were filled with baby shrimp.
When we were almost back to Apex, we saw a large block of ice, which the dogs took to licking furiously. We decided to have a little rest at the block of ice. I didn't realize until afterwards that I got a pretty wet butt. It seemed too cold for the ice to melt, but I was wrong.
The opportunity to trek out to Tarr Inlet was amazing. The views were simply beautiful!!
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