This happened in my last post on winter solstice.
Here I go again. You know that I spent 5 years in the Arctic. They were years that influenced me for
the remainder of my life.
Many times, people including me, talk about the dark in the Arctic. Higher up in the Arctic there will
be darkness. Where I was at 68 north, we did not get total darkness. Here , for sunrise we get light,
quite some time before actual sun up. The same thing happens in the evening. So where I was ,we
didn't get actual darkness. Light came from the sun when it was below the horizon. If it was cloudy it
could get very dull. The sun stays below the horizon for about six weeks.
My apartment in Inuvik had windows facing west. It was a fantastic view. First the East arm of the
Mackenzie was about 800m away. The my view was of the delta and it was treed. From the west arm of
the Mackenzie I could see the Richardson Mountians. So for me this was a fantastic view that has
stuck with me for all my life.
