Cold, hard facts of a trip back in time (Northwest Passage)

as appearing on Daily Telegraph

WE’RE crowded on the bridge, at least 20 of us, peering out to the horizon with powerful binoculars and telephoto lenses. Surely we’ll see something soon. Polar bears, whales, countless seabirds and even a rare species of caribou are all checked off but something is still missing up here in the high Arctic of Nunavut, Canada. Ice.

Story appears online as
Cruise the Northwest Passage on Akademik Ioffe with One Ocean Expeditions

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Print story ran: Sunday Telegraph (NSW), Sunday Mail (QLD), Sunday Mail (SA), Sunday Tasmanian