I complete my first pass through my Cross Island photos – several more passes to go

Finally, I completed my first pass through all of my Cross Island and related pictures. Considering that I returned home on September 19, you might wonder how it could take so long - that's just the first pass, narrowing it down to, what, I don't know, a few thousand pictures, anyway? I will sort through these again and again and again until finally I wind up with whatever I wind up with.

At the moment, I do not even have a venue to publish it, but I will get one. Uiñiq I hope. It really ought to be a Uiñiq. Kivgiq took my total Uiñiq budget through June 2014. I will have to see if I can get another budget. A year from now would be a good time to publish it, anyway.

Going through the pictures was wonderful – Kind of like living it all over again. When I went to bed last night, I had just one relatively small section of pictures left to go through, but I was just too tired. So I slept for maybe two hours, then woke up and futilely tried to sleep for a couple more hours. At 5 AM, I gave up, got up and finished the initial edit. Jim got up with me and joined me at the computer. He is good that way. 

Text added at 7:23 AM. The Squarespace nightmare continues - day 46 and counting.

Duct tape on the cleats makes this a safer boat

After stuffing styrofoam into the ends in the cleats at the stern of Silook's boat, Isaiah seals the space over and around them with duct tape. He does this to ensure that the rope attaching the harpoon to the float does not get caught by the cleat in the event a bowhead is harpooned from this boat. There is no wireless at the house so I need to take a short walk each time I post. In the event time prevents me from taking this walk before we leave tomorrow, this could be my last post for a week or two or three... I don't think so, but just in case I don't show up here tomorrow, that's why. #boat #boating #harpoon #inupiatwhaling #nuiqsut #alaska