We were all woken at 7.30am for breakfast at 8am so that we could be taken ashore on the Zodiacs for a 11.36am charter flight back to Edmonton via Yellowknife.
As it was a nice sunny day and the wind had dropped, it was a much nicer walk of 2km back to the airport and on the way, the local people of Pelly Bay (called Kugaaruk in the Inuit language) opened their new community centre for us to look at. It had some bone carvings by local artists in display cases, pictures of the Inuit games and a room where the leaders of the Hamlet of Pelly Bay met which included a Polar bear skin laid out in the room.
Pelly Bay was very pleasant in the sunshine with no wind but does get colder as the sign below at the airport states.
The RJ85 aircraft of Summit air arrived and the first 80 of us left for the 3 hours flight to Edmonton via Yellowknife.
As promised One Ocean had put us up in a hotel near the airport which was very nice and were paying for dinner and the bar bill for over 100 people. We got stuck into the the C$45 per bottle Malbec, their most expensive, and were thrown out of the restaurant at 12 midnight as the staff wanted to go home and were not used to so many people crowding into their bar.
I managed to rebook the same flights home today that we would have had next Sunday although at addition cost so at least we will arrive in the UK on Tuesday morning.
As I write this we are just sitting in the lounge at Toronto airport feeling disappointed that we are not still cruising the Artic Ocean spotting Polar bears and Narwhal, although we did see a couple of Narwhal yesterday on the way back into Pelly Bay.
Once we get home, we will have to console ourselves with the thought of Costa Rica in December this year.