Arriving in Goose Bay, you’ll be met by your local guide and taken to your hotel to check in before the brief orientation to town and group dinner.

This morning we board our Twin Otter and depart Goose Bay to Saglek for our transfer by boat to basecamp. Unpack and relax ahead of your orientation by your guide, Mike Beedell. Enjoy a private dinner at the camp and spend the evening in Inuit-style tent accommodation. Here you will have electricity, heat & shower facilities. This base camp boasts the biggest solar power array in Labrador!

The airstrip near Basecamp is an old DEW line base and is still minimally manned. The flight from Goose Bay to Nain 1.5 hrs, fuel up (approx. 15 min) then 1 hr on to Saglek

This is a place where “the rocks revel in their freedom.”
Oscar Lieber – Geologist, 1860

Today we have a full-day excursion from base camp to the North Arm of Saglek Bay. This Fiord will take your breath away – with precipitous cliffs where falcons soar,sand beaches that run for miles and the story of glaciation that sculpted this landscape. There are few places on earth where such an array of geological features and processes can be observed in a single landscape. The limited vegetation cover, high mountains, coastal cliffs,deeply incised fjords, and sheer cliffs that cut perpendicular to the rock fabric, provide some of the best exposures of the earth’s geologic history.

Here Mike will offer a photo workshop on landscape and macro photography. He will cover methods of captureing the essence of this massive landscape and giving your images a sense of scale. Also you will learn the finer details of documenting the macro world where tiny little flowers, mosses, plants and thousand year old lichens thrive.

Today we have a full morning to explore Rose Island, an area inhabited by the Inuit for thousands of years. Here we find hundreds of ancient Inuit graves, of which only a few have been properly surveyed to date. We learn about the more recent history, including the repatriations human remains removed for research. Rose Island was a popular summer meeting spot for divergent early groups, as it is very rich in marine life, so hunting would have been good. The afternoon is left free to settle into camp and explore our surroundings.

We take the longliner to Ramah Bay. Ramah was a small mission run by the Moravian Church in northern Labrador from 1871 until 1908. It is also the site of an uncommon semi-translucent light-grey stone with dark banding called “Ramah chert” used for flaking chipped stone tools (mostly bifaces and projectile points).

We will have a chance to explore the bay and will make camp for the night before returning the next afternoon. Overnight in tents.

Today we will have helicopter excursions, either for aerial photography, or weather conditions permitting, to drop those who are interested out of basecamp so they may hike back in. Throughout the day, Mike will conduct photo workshops.

We will spend the day hiking in the area around basecamp, on the lookout for polar bears, caribou and marine mammals. There are numerous hikes out of base camp ranging from rolling terrain to steep inclines. In the evening we will have our private farewell dinner.

After breakfast, we transfer to the airstrip via longliner to join our charter flight back to Goose Bay.