The next morning, we setup our Starlink satellite internet so that Christina could finish up her last day of work before taking some vacation time that would allow us to cover the remaining ground to Tuktoyaktuk. Eventually our heavy eyelids took over and around 1:30am on our first “White Night” we finally fell asleep under a still light blue sky. Once in bed, the light again kept us away from sleep as we found ourselves peering out of our Go Fast Camper tent to check for larger critters such a grizzlies, or moose, but also to soak in the still illuminated scenery.
The long hours of light also mislead us into thinking that it was much earlier in the evening than it actually was, resulting in us accidentally crawling into bed nearly 2 hours later than we would have normally.
It would be many weeks before we saw stars in the night sky again! Even though the light did get really low in the late (like around 2 am) hours of the night, there was still enough light hanging in the northern sky that it prevented us from seeing any stars at any point in the night. We were finally far enough north that the summer night sky never got fully dark. While we were in this spot we got to add another first time experience to our list.
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