Growlers and Bergy Bits

    I encountered these two terms today while exploring the sea ice section the Environment Canada website.  Here's a site that explains the difference, so you don't embarrass yourself by calling one the other the next time you're up the Labrador.  Heather, of course, knows all this stuff already, being an Antarctic maniac.  She could tell you the name of the cat on Shackleton's last voyage.

    I was trying to think of whether I've ever seen an iceberg, or at least a bergy bit, and, yes, I have.  They used to be visible from the upstairs window of the house in Sydney Mines, the winter of 1970/71, menacing the North Sydney ferry.

    This image is by David Blackwood, Newfoundland printmaker, whose pictures of the natural world always seem to be so much more awesome that Christopher Pratt's, because he puts people in them for scale.  Douglas

Comments

[Alan]

I really want a Blackwood print or two. I knew someone with one of a lighthouse near St.Johns and you can't take your eyes off the thing. I want some of John Neville's newer stuff, too: http://www.houston-north-gallery.ns.ca/john_neville/john_neville.htm

I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want, I want...

[Douglas]

I'm sorry. Down on the Labrador.