We got two young local fellows to camp out and watch over a timelapse camera for us. It's a motorized timelapse camera, my idea was to get it to pan in a circle over a 24 hour period, following the 24 hour sun around the horizon. Kind of an ambitious idea, it didn't completely work out, it depended on technology we hadn't thoroughly tested and the weather all cooperating at once.
However, not knowing what the future would bring, we plunged ahead, and got the guy who runs the youth centre in Pond Inlet to recommend a couple of responsible young fellows to babysit it. It turned out to be a very complicated project, the whole town shut down that evening for a funeral, which meant that the store where we needed to buy them supplies was closed. Also the outfitter we had rented some stuff from was leaving town for his own camping trip, and we had forgotten to acquire a camp stove for them. Never mind, many errands later we had them all equipped, and left them behind, sitting in a tent out in the middle of nowhere listening to a camera make a clicking noise every two minutes.
When we came to pick them up I asked how camping was. Jesse, the sixteen-year old, said "great!" with a big grin. Jamesie, the eighteen-year old, said "Okay," with a very neutral expression. So, mixed reviews. I figure Jesse got to hang out with one of the cool kids, while Jamesie was stuck with a sixteen-year old. Hopefully Jamesie will now say hi to Jesse in the lunchroom, giving him some new awesome cred amongst his peers, and we will have spread a little joy to at least one deserving young lad.
However, not knowing what the future would bring, we plunged ahead, and got the guy who runs the youth centre in Pond Inlet to recommend a couple of responsible young fellows to babysit it. It turned out to be a very complicated project, the whole town shut down that evening for a funeral, which meant that the store where we needed to buy them supplies was closed. Also the outfitter we had rented some stuff from was leaving town for his own camping trip, and we had forgotten to acquire a camp stove for them. Never mind, many errands later we had them all equipped, and left them behind, sitting in a tent out in the middle of nowhere listening to a camera make a clicking noise every two minutes.
When we came to pick them up I asked how camping was. Jesse, the sixteen-year old, said "great!" with a big grin. Jamesie, the eighteen-year old, said "Okay," with a very neutral expression. So, mixed reviews. I figure Jesse got to hang out with one of the cool kids, while Jamesie was stuck with a sixteen-year old. Hopefully Jamesie will now say hi to Jesse in the lunchroom, giving him some new awesome cred amongst his peers, and we will have spread a little joy to at least one deserving young lad.
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