Spring Coral Harbour
You have run into an “ice-pressure ridge”. Ice pressure ridges" are re-directive agential forces that perform the de/markations and im/possibilities of how you can move through the knowledge-land-scape. It's a referral to the agential forces and apparatuses at play which mark the extent of possibilities within a particular generative cut. In this case, it is the change of seasons that forms such an ice-pressure ridge. Despite immediately rescheduling my flight back to the South after I had landed in Coral Harbour, the wind took a turn and blizzards delayed my departure from Coral Harbour by multiple days.
Indeed, I had travelled up to Coral Harbour during early spring and the weather was changeable. Although the change of seasons provides for transformative possibilities in the North, they also bring with them uncertainties. Even more so when involuntarily stranding in a remote-region, away from home, during the unfolding of a global response to a pandemic spread of a respiratory virus.
What to do?
You follow this ice-pressure ridge to understand the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on both the Bearwatch project and my own PhD trajectory. Alternatively, you can accept an invitation from Leonard Netser and his family to come over and spend time with them at their house. Both options will prove transformative, in terms of the opportunities they offer for embodied understandings of wayfaring. You can also choose to forgo these redirections and find your way across the ice-pressure ridge. This will set you back on track with the unfolding of the BearWatch project.