Baffin Island, Still Scary After All These Years

by John August 25, 2011
A mother polar bear and her two cubs on a rocky hillside in Baffin Island

[Written August 22] Sixteen years ago, during one of our first Arctic cruises on Morgan’s Cloud, we were fueling in Greenland prior to leaving for Baffin Island. The crusty old Danish skipper of the coastal passenger boat was on the wharf and, after severely admonishing us for even being in Greenland on a sailboat, he [...]