Arrival!

With only a few glitches... such as finding our charter pilot, Fred. Heidi's technique of wandering the Cambridge Bay, NU airport calling "Fred! Fred!" turned out to be quite successful. The lady from the airline counter came over asking "are you looking for Fred Hamilton?" Well, yes, actually - and since she was his niece, she called around to all of his various haunts until she tracked him down for us.

Next challenge: getting our sleds and gear into a rather small plane. We'd been expecting a Beaver - but were getting a Cesna - thank goodness most of our sampling gear had already been shipped up.

Well, and at least I felt secure during any turbulence!