The drills here have canvas walls to save on wieght when they move them. the light was casting a shadow if the drillers one the canvas. Drilling is quite a hecktic busines, so there is always lots of arm waving and pointing, but I failed to capture any of this, not used to the shutter delay on the old tosh. 
While waiting for the drillers to pull the rods I took a few pix with the old tosh. that pile of boxes on the net is our bore hole gear. After we surveyed the hole they moved the drill, now all there is there is a small puddle of mud. They don't leave much mess up here, the drills are moved by chopper, so they don't even have to make roads to drag them in.
There are numerous Innucksui around here, not sure if they are built by native people, or just people southerners looking for something to do. I leave the Innukshuk building to the experts, so instead I built this rock stack. I plan to add a nice pure white lump of Quarts to the top soon.
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On tuesday this tent bacame vacant as the GL Geoservices crew moved out, So terry and I moved in, this gives us space to store and charge out gear without bothering anyone elce.
Well I thought it looked like the east side of Ibsley common on a misty morning. The lumps are not ant hills tho, they are rocks. the fog is fog and the wet bits are wet bits.
Our rides, DLY and DKD waiting for the fog to lift so they can ferry field workers into the field.
While wandering around the tundra in the fog I found a tree, it was almost 3 inches tall!
This is terry, my helper having a smoke while waiting for the chopper to pick us up from our surface grid at Lac Rinfret.
I decided to have another go at the cotton with the 300mm tele, to give a shallow dof isolating one head in a mass of others. sort of worked.
I found this little poppy growing in the fen behind the camp, I didn't have the macro lens on, so this was shot with the 300mm tele.
These fellows flew in on the 12th, going south, apparently a sign that the winter weather is on it's way.
I view looking north. I think the red is part of the Gossan (rusted rocks) that is associated with the Minerals they are mining here. The snow seems to collect on south facing slopes here, the wind blows from the north all winter. East Lake camp is on a sout hfacing slope and when they opened the camp in June it was apparently still under about 7 feet of snow.
This is the main mine site, wit hthe accomodations, workshops and storage areas. I have been impressed with how tidy everything is kept up here. Very little rubbish blowing around, the mine waste seems to be well controled. A nice change.
Where ever we work up here it is a fly job. It is quite fun riding in a chopper every day, but I hate loading and unloading it, very loud - you can't communicate and you can't let anything blow away. Planning ahead if key.
Looks like bog cotton to me. This grows in one of the slightly green areas clost to the camp.
Still looking for a truck Dad?
3rd try to post this one.
My and 3 other guys will be living in here for a month. It is a timber frame with a canvas cover. It is insulated and has a propane heater, eletric and WiFi!.
