Out of sheer coincidence, Casey and I found ourselves together on the same remote Bering Sea island, but only for a night. He and the rest of his crew flew in from Anchorage on Tuesday, and due to high seas and a strong southeast wind, were forced to stay for a night at staff quarters (the large white building on the upper left). I was able to at least give him a quick tour of the southwest portion of the island, and show him some of the cliffs that will soon be full of nesting seabirds. With a brief weather window yesterday, they managed to transport all gear and personnel to the Russian vessel Professor Multanovskiy, which was stationed beyond international waters 12 miles in the lee of St. Paul. Soon they will be passing the Bering Strait, looking for walrus at the edge of the ice somewhere in the Chukchi Sea.
Canon EOS 60D, Canon EF 17-40mm f/4L USM, ISO-400 f/5.6 @ 1/800 sec.
What a fortuitous meeting!
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