All future updates will be to our Facebook page as we are running on a satellite phone.  We are going to send text updates to our support team down South and they will post them to Facebook:

www.facebook.com/FaraHeim

Thanks again to our gear sponsors.

Navionics is now a gear sponsor.  They’ve provided the digital nautical charts of Hudson Bay including the SonarCharts for use in the Humminbird 1198 chartplotting system.

We will be able to digitally record anything the Humminbird “sees” via an SD card for future reference along with the map, position (lat/long) and depth.

Thanks again Navionics.

Dan Khoury of Watson’s has given his support of the Battle of Hudson Bay project by providing the expedition team with a set of Watson’s base layer.

Watson’s is a Canadian company located in Montreal not too far from Rue D’Iberville.

Thanks to Dan and Watson’s.

Captain Norman Baker stopped into Winnipeg on his way back from another Explorers Club expedition and delivered Flag 109.  We took him on the Fara Heim expedition ship on Lake Winnipeg during the Islendingadagurinn weekend.

We have not been very regular about updating to the expedition diary.  A LOT has been going on:

1. We spent 5 days searching on Lake Winnipeg for hole stones found by a Manitoban named Evald Hansen and referred to in several books written by Hjalmur Holand.  While there we came across a site the indigenous local people call “White Mens Writing on the Rock”.  More to follow.

2. We met with Capt Norman Baker on Lake Winnipeg as he delivered the Explorers Club Flag 109 for the upcoming Battle of Hudson Bay expedition.

3. We completed a CBC National TV and Radio interview that aired today.