Monday, August 8, 2011

Darkness Finally


In Yellowknife the downtown buildings are connected by aerial walkways and underground tunnels.
Downtown Yellowknife
Late night August 6th I experienced nighttime darkness for the first time in over 3 weeks. In Yellowknife the sun finally went down for about 4 hours. Shortly before 11:00 p.m. we noticed that it was dark. Yellowknife is just South of the Arctic circle.

Yellowknife is beautiful. The city surrounds The Great Slave Lake, which I'm told is the 5th largest fresh water lake in North America.

A view of the Great Slave Lake from above the visitors center
There are flowers and trees everywhere! I sure have missed lush vegetation.






View from the restaurant I had Sunday brunch at with Brian Glass (NASA). The rest of our group slept in.


Chalk writing on the sidewalk in front of the Yellowknife public library.




No comments:

Post a Comment