KAKTOVIK-- With its passengers bundled against the arctic wind blowing off the Beaufort Sea, the small boat speeds smoothly across the lagoon. We pass the "bone pile" -- the place where the unused remains of Native-caught bowhead whales are left -- as we arc around a sandy point and into the adjacent lagoon. With temperatures in the 30s and a light wind blowing, we've just left the Inupiaq village of Kaktovik. Our destination is Bernard Spit, just off Barter Island. "I can see two, three, there...
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