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Today we went to see more kimberlite. We went back to the Kimberlite Cliffs, which is more extensive than I thought yesterday and maybe more than the diamond hunters thought, too. We went to check out a magnetic anomoly that did not have any visible kimberlite float that we could find. The area was over-run with lemmings, and huge piles of marine clay were carved by wind and weather into weird shapes. Then we went to a kimberlite eruption where the garnets were clustered thick on pieces of mantle that jutted up from the earth. Very interesting stuff.

Lunch was excellent, and included the whale blubber I talked about in an earlier post. The blubber comes from narwhales (odd-looking beasties that have a tooth that grows into a unicorn-like horn), and was pleasant enough when dipped in soy sauce. It's safe to say I got my fat content for the week.

Finally, we bid goodbye, and it was time to wing it back to Yellow Knife. The sunset just as we landed at 10 pm was beautiful ...

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