It's a bit of a scenery to mingle with the little crowd of Happy Valley Goose Bay to celebrate the 150th Canada Day. The brand new Splash Pad and Fireworks are very popular.

Nine months since we left Vagabond in Goose Bay. Each of us four is moved to climb aboard. At first glance, nothing has moved, except the thermometer sliders indicating that the temperature inside the boat has fluctuated between -27°C and +29°C. Soon we will know if there are consequences...

It is in Pilatus that we get to Labrador. Memorable flight from Montreal, three hours in the company of our pilots Luc and Georges who invite us in the cockpit each in our turn. Exceptional experience!

Yesterday the house was rented and the car sold! Emotion leaving our friends from Brittany. Our long stay in France ends. We leave for new horizons for a year and a half... Starting with family, formalities and training for three days in Paris, then heading to Canada to meet again with Vagabond.

28 days to ski around Bylot Island: David Reid (Scots and Canadian, expedition leader), Ingrid Ortlieb (German, living in Spain), Martin Garcia (Basque Spanish and Canadian), and myself (scientist of the expedition), have travelled nearly 500 km in autonomy, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Canada, with the help and protection of four dogs, sometimes on sea ice very rough and with many polar bears!

On May 9, we returned to our point of departure, Pond Inlet, an Inuit village north of Baffin Island in Nunavut, in the Canadian Arctic.

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For the 150th anniversary of Canada, Eric is back on the sea ice in Nunavut! With David Reid, Ingrid Ortlieb and Martin Garcia, they are four during one month to ski around Bylot Island, north of Baffin Island, in Canada's far north. Departure from Pond Inlet on April 12!

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Thank you to Essilor for taking care of the eyes of Vagabond's crew!

Essilor, Native and Costa are also supporting Bear Witness expedition, departure on April 11, 2017 from Pond Inlet for the Bylot Island circumnavigation on skis.

The new Astrolabe, getting ready in Concarneau... Very different from the previous Astrolabe !

Read again the article about the mission on board the Astrolabe in Antarctica in 2014.

Reunion with some colleagues of the GreenEdge project, at Roscoff Marine Station where Daniel Vaulot offered us a complete tour, showing us also the GreenEdge samples!

Thanks a lot to Topstar for tailor-made diving suits for Aurore and Leonie, delighted to test them in Brittany before going for colder waters...