Arctic fox, shedding it's winter coat, hunting for eggs, being harrassed by birds.<p>
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Spectacled Eider.<p>
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There's an airstrip in Deadhorse.<p>
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Red-throated Loon<p>
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Short-eared owl.<p>
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Oil field "tour".  Access to the Arctic Ocean is restricted for "security" reasons, so you have to pay for the tour to get there.  Each of these boxes is an oil well.<p>
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Burning off natural gas.<p>
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<a href="arctic ocean panorama.sm.jpg"><b>Panorama of Arctic Ocean</b></a><p><hr><p>
Wind blowing in off the ice - Dang it was cold!  According to Rich, less than one tenth of one percent of the earth's population has ever seen the Arctic Ocean - wuhoo for us!<p>
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We're as far north as we can get (without a swim)!<p>
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Teva sandal, presumably from some dude in Norway.<p>
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There are no forrests bordering the Arctic ocean, so the driftwood has presumably come down from rivers in Canada.<p>
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It felt smooth, polished.<p>
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Buff-breasted sandpiper (taken from a shakey bus).<p>
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