Some Iceberg pics and an Oil Rig pic

So I guess I can ask this here... Have ya seen any old people on any ice burgs out there? Is it like all over the place? Is there couples on them or does each person get their own burg?

That first picture is awesome. I could totally spend my last days on that one drifting out to sea.

Nice pics! That first iceberg is amazing. Where did you see that oil rig?

When I was flying out I saw what looked like an oil rig in an inland lake - do you know of anything that would fit that description?



Digging up that picture I came across two interesting articles:

Did the Inuit actually put elderly people onto ice flows? This article suggests 'Yes' and gives some other examples of senicide from other cultures. The whole article was a nice look at modern Inuit culture
http://nowheremag.com/2015/04/growing-old-with-the-inuit-3/

Should we put modern elderly people onto ice flows? This article argues that it might be less cruel than the current model of aggressive medical interventions instead of palliative care.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/04/opinion/etzioni-elderly/

After a few years volunteering for palliative care, I'm in favour of having some control over the end of your life, not being at the total whim of your biology and the medical system.

For an actual account of being trapped on a chunk of ice, I recommend William Grenfell's 'Adrift on an Ice Pan' where he recounts his experiences in Newfoundland during the spring of 1908.

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Adrift_on_an_ice_pan

Here is a sample:

William Grenfell's 'Adrift on an Ice Pan' wrote:It seems impossible to say how long one sleeps, but I woke with a sudden thought in my mind that I must have a flag; but again I had no pole and no flag. However, I set to work in the dark to disarticulate the legs of my dead dogs, which were now frozen stiff, and which were all that offered a chance of carrying anything like a distress signal.

It took a long time in the dark to get the legs off, and when I had patiently marled them together with old harness rope and the remains of the skin traces, it was the heaviest and crookedest flag-pole it has ever been my lot to see. [...] But, with the rising of the sun, the frost came out of the joints of my dogs' legs, and the friction caused by waving it made my flag-pole almost tie itself in knots. Still, I could raise it three or four feet above my head, which was very important.

Reading his story made me re-set my scale of hardship - because no matter how bad life gets I'll hopefully never needed to make a flag-pole out of frozen dog legs....

The oil rig was out near Bay Bulls.

I think all those icebergs are grounded and not going anywhere but it would be a good way to go.

That story is nuts. I looked over at Max, Minnow and Wilson and imagined tearing off their frozen legs to make a flag pole. That is whole different level of crazy.

I am heading up the northern peninsula today so hopefully I'll get some good pictures and not have to rip animals apart for tools.

With Minnow you'd need to stitch all 4 legs together to get one regular leg... it would get messy...

We drove up the Great Northern Peninsula over the last 3 days and it more of less completed the tour of Newfoundland. I'll post some pictures after I sort through. I think we hit the peak of iceberg season and it is a very heavy iceberg season. It looked like part of Greenland exploded. The first few days of the drive were rain and heavy fog. Couldn't see much other than occasionally seeing an iceberg through the fog. Once the fog lifted it revealed waterways clogged with icebergs. I thought the waters off of Newfoundland were dangerous before but now add fog so thick you can't see than 30 feet in front of you and chunks of ice that would shatter small boats to mere splinters or rip holes in the largest of ocean liners.  

So for Hybrids of Avalon, the dangers of icebergs should be greater than I initially appraised. As well some of the icebergs are massive. You could probably land a plane on them. Maybe we should have iceberg cities or at least structures on icebergs. Icebergs are only temporary so it maybe mining of icebergs for some crystals or liquid inside?

Those icebergs look dangerous!

By which I mean I would probably feel compelled to grab a boat and try to get on them and slip off and die in the ocean.... I rather not be tempted...