Officially Entered The Northwest Passage

At 9:30 a.m. local (EST) we “officially” left Baffin Bay and entered The Northwest Passage.  We designated 80 degrees longitude as the demarcation zone. Watching the GPS, with half the crew asleep, the other half of us smiled a great big smile of satisfaction knowing that we’ve now entered into something few have done (successfully) before. The Passage is steeped in history, some tragic, some inspiring, all enticing and for the next three or four weeks we hope to uncover as much as we can… and then get out of here before the snow starts to fly and the ice starts to roll back in.   By the way, because the lines of longitude are becoming tighter and tighter further north we burned through 35 degrees of longitude in 3.5 days. That’s three times zones, a time zone a day!