Where the Kongakut River meets the Beaufort Sea (Arctic Ocean) you’ll find Icy Reef. A giant gravel shoal that stretches for miles but is only a hundred yards wide is created by and covered by the arctic pack ice each winter. What might seem to appear as a desolate stretch of nothing is full of life from wildflower, moose, caribou and Polar Bears to nesting birds like Common Eider. This photograph and the next were captured when a spotlight of sun shot down. I captured this one of driftwood (from MacKenzie River) and then ran across the reef to capture the one of the iceberg. Photo captured by D2X, 17-55 on Lexar digital film.