LANDSCAPES

courtesy of Lisa M., a military wife who lived there with her officer husband.

Miscellaneous Military Life/ Roadbuilding/ Building the Launcher/ Landscapes

Churchill's landscape has a number of ecosystems and a wide variety of lifeforms due to the fact that it is SUB-arctic. Because of past glaciation, it also has very interesting geology. Lisa sent me a number of really nice b&W landscapes, which can be seen below. As always, click on the small pic to see a larger version

 

 

In Summer, male bears like to hang out on rocky beaches like this

 

View of the harbor

 

Krumholtz formation #1. This photo doesn't show so clearly the typical flag-like, one-sided appearance of northern treeline trees.

Along the Churchill River. In summertime, (July) a pod of Beluga Whales inhabits this water. The current is noticeably strong (in my opinion, since I went swimming in it) and the water itself, although unpolluted, is quite murky.

 

In summer, this frozen pond would reflect the sky and resemble sapphire. This area is really beautiful in the summertime. Too bad about the bugs.

 

Krumholtz Formation #2. Here you can see how the winds of stripped off all branches except for those growing on the side AWAY from the wind. This must be a somewhat protected location since quite a few trees are growing together.

 

I don't know what this formation is. If anyone does, please get in touch with me so that I can properly identify it.

 

Men in boats with beluga whales. I HOPE they are not hunting them, but they might be. These creatures are SO lovely! They are also one of the prime prey of the polar bears.

 

This might be a beach or an expanse near a lake.

 

This is some kind of swamp/muskeg area, I think. There is a lake right near the Churchill Northern Studies Center. Its approach looks like this. But it could be any other largish body of water in the tundra. (There are many such pools, because the glaciers carved out the land as they retreated, and due to permafrost, any water that collects there cannot percolate down. In summer, the tundra around Churchill is dotted with many beautiful sapphire-colored lakes, ponds and pools.

 

 

This looks too small to be the Churchill River. It is probably some stream that got frozen.