Angus is a farmer, but here’s the catch: he grazes his cows on an island that can only be reached at low tide. Ailsa and I met him on his drive back across a mile of sand flats. He’d been checking on the cows and found a calf had been born during the night. He’s…
My first stop on the Arctic approach is North Uist in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides. This is our backyard. I’ve been here 12 hours and I’m in love. This place has the #tundra spirit. And cows.
These chaps know how to love the windy weather. The kite nearly pulled them off the ground.
Touchdown in #Iceland. Keflavik airport is nearly deserted, but these words are a lovely welcome for #mystopover. Going south this morning, before I can come #north again.
Leaving the land of canoes and headed for the land of kayaks, but I have a few stops to make first. People from my home town might recognize this birch bark beauty. Built by Algonquin elder Patrick Miranda, this is the twin of Pierre Trudeau’s boat. But it lives in the airport now. I’m on…
I’m proud of this luggage. 24 hours from departure and it’s ready. This is unprecedented (ask my family) and worth a commemorative photo shoot in the garden. A bientot, Ottawa. I’m ready to Meet the North.
Jennifer Kingsley writes on science at the Canadian Museum of Nature I’m a Field Correspondent with Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic on an Arctic mission, but before I head north I’m looking around home for connections to the higher latitudes. Enter Roger Bull. By the time I saw Lycodes paamiuti, an obscure fish dragged from the Arctic…
Jennifer Kingsley on her new assignment I have a new assignment in 2015 as the Field Correspondent for Lindblad Expeditions-National Geographic. As I get ready to head north later this spring, I’ve written an introduction to me, to the project, and to my hopes and dreams for the year. A southern northerner embarks on an…