A wet and exhausted caribou is back on all fours after running into trouble when it broke through the sea ice (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)
A couple of fishermen from Port au Choix came to the rescue of a caribou that had broken through the sea ice and was struggling in the water.
A caribou in trouble on the sea ice in Port au Choix (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)
The animal couldn’t get back up on the ice which kept breaking away, and it couldn’t swim back to shore because of the surrounding ice.
A caribou rescue caught on camera in Port au Choix (via Brandon Gould on Facebook)
That’s when Vernon Lavers and Milton Offrey jumped into action. They were able to break a path through the ice with their fishing boat to allow the caribou to get to the beach and back on all fours.
Brandon Gould, who caught the whole incident on video, says despite her time in the water the caribou seemed to be none the worse for wear.
“She ran down the road, out over Cliff Rock,” says Gould. “She seemed healthy enough.”