Out on the edge at Nome

About a mile out from the shore. Almost on Berrimilla’s 2008 track into the harbour. The big pressure ridge is fast on the bottom and anchors all the inshore ice and outside it, the tide and wind take over and the ice moves in sync. There’s been a clear lead out there for a couple of days…find the horizon…and a rather hazy Sledge Island floats in its own reflection about 10 miles away…a seal…Pat and Megan…