The Matriarch

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You can see their tightly packed feather which is an adaptation to help withstand the extreme cold

then attacking from below

They also have exquisite red/orange eyes with really stand out against their black and white feathers

I grabbed my camera

An unusual perspective captured from the sky of a Ring Seal resting on the frozen ocean of the North West Passage

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but Mark favourite days are when the weather in rolling in through the North West Passage

I heard a distant sound echoing across the water

wisely the making the most of the morning low neap tide

Here you can see the crashing ocean wave on the west side of the Peninsular that attracts many surfers today but also the calm inside that would have provided many safe launch point for canoes heading out to hunt and forage in the past

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in almost silence apart from the occasion sail flap in the light wind