Wild,
Wild
Labrador
Abundant wildlife and
stunning scenery await those
bold enough to brave the
rocky fjords and swift currents
of a summer in Labrador.
Story & Photographs by
Tom Zydler
A
pod of orcas caught up with us in Gray Strait, of the
northern tip of Labrador. They closed in as much
as possible without bumping the hull; I could have
touched the 6 -foot dorsal fi n of the leading male if I had
dared to lean over. A couple of days earlier, my wife, Nancy,
and I had sailed through the Button Islands, watching the
sheer clif s at the northern entrance through a blizzard of
fl itting birds — thousands of fulmars and kittiwakes. Inside
the channel, seals frolicked, keeping wary eyes on a massive
polar bear scouting the water’s edge for a meal.