Finally, I got my first weekend off work in over 5 months and I took full advantage of it. Spring time in Fort Albany is full of excitement as the majority of the community hops on their Ski-Doos to spend their holidays at spring camps to hunt geese. Many families own tiny camps in the middle of the bush which can only be reached in the winter and early spring because the rest of the year, when there is no ice, the land becomes Muskeg which is a nasty kind …

Today was Lianna’s last day in Fort Albany and the North did not let her go without a fight! For the past 24 hours it has been snowing non stop and doesn’t appear to be letting up until Thursday according to the forecast. Lianna was extremely lucky as normally, planes will not fly when the clouds are so low to the ground. Here in the north the planes do not have all the fancy intstruments and normally rely on sight to land on the runway which makes cancellations due to …