Route Map   Weather Map   Daily Journal         Q & A   Special Reports   Education Section           The Game Click here to send the Viking adventurers your questions		Labrador sighted! Date: August 16, 1998 Author: Hodding Carter Lat/Lon: 59 deg 58.4 min N, 63 deg 59 min W Location: Outside of Eclipse Bay Course: 205 true Speed: 3 knots Weather: Overcast, cold, light winds Sightings: Labrador This is just a quick note to let everybody know we are fine. We've been sailing for 30 hours now - left Kane Channel at 8:30 AM on 8/15/98. We had to do two-man "bear watch" all that night because of two frisky bears who really wanted to come visit. Erik wrote a great journal about it, but we couldn't get the computer to work. "How does it feel to be second on the food chain?" Erik asked me at some point as we watched another, much larger bear swim down the channel across from us. As we sailed out of there yesterday morning, we nearly rani over a walrus swimming on his back. Eventually, we saw more than three dozen walrus, swimming and lounging on rocks. This northern part of Labrador looks a lot like Baffin - rocky, cold and formidable. There is an amazing beauty in this harshness, though. I still can't believe we've sailed a Viking ship from Greenland to Baffin to here! This is all I'm going to write for now because I don't know if I've even got this thing working yet. My fingers are numb also.