What would a Nunavut blog be without an early mention of Northern Lights? Last night when I looked out the hotel window at about 11pm, across the lake, way in the distance, most of the horizon was lit up as if I was looking at a city a hundred miles away. Then I remembered there was no city anywhere near me. I waited for a bit to see how the light show would shape up. The lights travelled closer towards Baker Lake so I put on my jacket and headed out to the water's edge. I tried to shoot video, but it only looked black. What a shame! The whole sky was dancing with lights that seemed almost sentient. I found these two pics on the web; they look a bit like what surrounded me last night (save for the trees). Because they're static, pictures do the northern lights no justice. Even video would be hard to capture how the famous glow fills the vast expanse of the Arctic. Btw, the stars in the Arctic Sky are more than magic enough to deserve their own blog post. But that'll have to wait...
gorgeous :)
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