mk> Our planed trip was not a package holiday on an cruising ship but a semi-
 mk> full-grown camping expedition to the arctic zone of Canada. Personally I
 mk> wanted to visit Beechey Island to find the four graves of the seaman, who
 mk> died there in 1846 and 1853. The three, who died in 1846 where members of
 mk> the John Franklin expedition, who tried to find the legendary northwest
 mk> passage. Prince-of-Wales-Island, Cornwallis Island, Union Bay, Erebus Bay,
 mk> Terror Bay was on our list, too.

With this intrest you must be a sceintist or something similar, or....?
And now I can understand the high prize.
But without any experience of trips like this, why don't you start with someting
smaller first.

 mk> We didn't want to make normal vacation, like sleeping in the only hotel of
 mk> Resolute and going on trips each day. For this the land is much to big. So
 mk> we wanted to go directly in the wilderness and stay there for three weeks.

That's nothing like three weeks on the Agistri Island just suoth of Athens. :-)
But would three weeks be enough? I mean, from Resolut to Prince of Wales
Island isn't just a days ride.

 mk> Or we must pay such a high deposit of some major equipments (a rubber
 mk> dinghy for six persons with an outboard motor, GPS, radio for six people
 mk> and for the the security pawn for one satellite telephone I must work
 mk> three month!

Wow! Are they *that* expensive.


 mk> No, we does't want to live for the liquidation of debts for the next ten
 mk> years...

Neither would I.

 mk> So now we make it much more smaller and we are looking for vacations in
 mk> the Yukon Territory, Whitehorse.

I would like to go there too.

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