Golden Eagle in Inuvik campground
Finally, a beautiful day. Sunny, warm and with just enough of a breeze to keep the bugs away.
We have a flight to Tuktoyaktuk booked for four pm today. It will be about a four hour tour of the village, so because it is so sunny and bright we are really looking forward to it. Then we hope to be able to get away tomorrow. The Peel River ferry is closed once again though. Perhaps by tomorrow, with no rain today the river will have dropped enough that we can cross. Right now there is so much debris coming down the river and catching in the ferry cable that it is not safe for them to run the ferry.
There is a golden eagle that is perched on a power pole here in this campground. It is very tame, and doesn’t seem to pay much attention to us, so I was able to get both a number of stills and video of it. It doesn’t look too wild of course, sitting on a power pole, but it’s prbably about as close to one as you’ll ever come.