Weekend Trip

Annual excitment this time the year is the seeing the thousands of migrating Qamanirjuaq caribou herd across from community of Baker Lake.

If they have not been impacted by human activity, or from aircraft noise, they would come right down to the beaches along the southwest side of Baker Lake.

Marie-Helene and I rented a local helicopter hoping to see the annual migration of the Qamanirjuaq caribou herds. After approximately 20min. flying  out across the lake, we landed on a dry esker next to a pond fed by crystal clear creek. After pitching our two personal tents and quick snack, I looked through binoculars if the migrating caribou were visible. I saw a herd approximately 1 to 2 thousand that just had crossed the Kazan River. About fifteen minutes later another herd in same number appeared from another site, all coming towards us.

It got too dark to see them clearly and we went to bed hoping to wake up to thousands of caribou surrounding us. Rather we saw a lone wolf, cow and calf, and another male caribou.

We went for hikes hoping to see group of caribou, but we were too far from high hills and couldn't see any major herds.

When we got pick up after 24hours, we saw the herd on the low valley nw from our camp heading out towards Pitz Lake area.

To MH it was something new and exciting, to me it was a rather disapointment not seeing them closer and not able to harvest one to take home.