Fran had a call from a local conservation officer last night. He reported sighting the musk ox on the same island it was first spotted last spring. The old guy/girl seems to have settled down there well, lots of food and lack of predators I suppose, just a bit lonely, maybe banished from the herd in Northern Quebec.
The head in foreground is not of the same species.
Pictures by S Bernier.
The local ground search and rescue [GSAR] was a little busy over the weekend. Had occasion to go out looking for people at least three times. One was a guy out wooding and ran out of gas.
Another was a young guy and his sister who were on the way home from Voisey’s Bay with a load of wood. They had a piston blow on their ski doo near Kauk Brook. They were picked up walking near southern point. Would have been a nice night for a walk except for having to beat into a blizzard.
The third incident was a guy who had his komatik load of wood got stuck in snow banks. He un hitched and proceeded on his machine until it got stuck in a snow bank. He was picked up walking also. Not a nice weekend for breaking down, or for even going wooding for that matter, but some just have to.
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