{"id":2939,"date":"2023-07-15T19:15:29","date_gmt":"2023-07-16T02:15:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=2939"},"modified":"2023-07-29T14:55:33","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T21:55:33","slug":"the-arctic-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/?p=2939","title":{"rendered":"End of the Road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After we arrived in Tuktoyaktuk the first thing we did was wade into the Arctic Ocean. The water was warmer than I expected. It was like our backyard pool on cold days.<\/p>\n

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Wading in the Arctic Ocean<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next we walked around town and found a playground. I had a lot of fun playing tag and other games with some kids. There were a lot of things to climb on like a rope ladder. There was also a big swing set and a slide.<\/p>\n

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Playing with some Inuvialuit kids<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Lots of ATVs roaring around town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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View of the Arctic Ocean from the camper<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next day it was Canada Parks Day. We joined the celebration at the Pingo Landmark. A pingo is a big mound of earth and ice. A pingo is formed when a lake mostly dries up but there is a disk of water left behind that freezes the lake bed and expands, pushing up the earth making a hump in the ground. This is the starting of a pingo. It keeps growing until the unfrozen ground turns to permafrost and the pingo has a core of pure ice.<\/p>\n

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Ibyuk, Canada\u2019s tallest pingo and the second tallest pingo in the world<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

As part of the Parks Day celebration we got to take a boat across an estuary of the Arctic Ocean to see Ibyuk, Canada\u2019s tallest pingo and the second tallest pingo in the world. Wow!<\/p>\n

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Pingo viewing platform. The guy with the rifle is there in case a Grizzly Bear shows up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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After we arrived in Tuktoyaktuk the first thing we did was wade into the Arctic Ocean. The water was warmer than I expected. It was like our backyard pool on cold days. Next we walked around town and found a playground. I had a lot of fun playing tag and other games with some kids. … Continue reading End of the Road<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2939"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2955,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2939\/revisions\/2955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chopchopbillygoat.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}