For anyone still following, the blog will resurrect in a few days. I have been invited up to Devon Island by Pascal as part of the summer programme for the Haughton Mars Project (www.marsinstitute.com and click on HMP) and I'm flying up there on august 1st for about 10 days – almost exactly two years since we got so close in Berrimilla.
I'll take a laptop and the satphone so that I can keep the blog going but will only be able to send photos if I can use the camp internet connection. If not, then lots when I get back.
Crossing the fingers and all other appendages that I might be able to visit the Fraknlin graves at Beechey Island. We got so close enough in 2008 to see the cliffs behind Beechey. Go to http://www.johngeiger.net/frozen.html for the book and the story. The photos of young John Torrington, who died on January 1st 1846 and his two colleagues have for years haunted me – until I met Pascal in Louisiana, I never imagined that I might one day visit their graves.
The logs ramblings can be cryptic, so we have added: