Northern Life
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Victor Bay and the living is easy
It is very much winter here now. Our first major snowfall on September 13th never completely disappeared from the ground, and much more has been added since then. Although the temperatures have remained mild, around -1 or -2, the grey skys and blowing winds have made it feel colder. And we’re now into our light
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Look. Up in the sky, it’s..
The night before last Travis, for some unknown reason, said that we should look at the planets with a telescope. Now I’m pretty sure that he didn’t even know that we have a telescope, but it prompted me to get the scope out of the attic and put it together, for the first time since
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It’s here!
No, not the Fuel Ship. Winter.
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Uluksan
Uluksan point is one side of the "mouth" of Arctic Bay (the other being Holy Cross Point, a finger of black rock jutting into the ocean). It was a traditional living spot, dating back to pre-contact times, a place where people gathered slate to make uluit. An Ulu is a "woman’s" knife, a very efficient
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A Tragedy
The community suffered another blow yesterday. A fourteen month old girl went into the Health Centre the night before last suffering from a fever and seizures. She died yesterday morning, before she could be medivac’d. It just happened that two doctors were in town on a scheduled visit, but despite their, and the nurse’s, and
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What a Beautiful Fall
It is hard not to wax effusively about life up here these days. It has been an absolutely gorgeous fall. Most daytime temperatures are hovering around 10C. The mornings have been dead calm, not a cloud in the sky. The wind picks up mid-afternoon and blows away the dust from the traffic and the airport
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… and check the oil and clean the windshield also.
Last week saw the arrival of our first sealift ship of the year, the fuel ship. The Tuvaq is on it’s first trip of the season here with a load of diesel/heating fuel for the next year. This is actually the second ship to arrive this year, a cruise ship visited in the fog a
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Berry picking time.
The other day Leah took a day off and went blue berry picking with her Aunt and sister. She came back with an ice cream pail full, and a gorgeous picture of her sister and her aunt in the hills above Second Bridge.
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These are the days…
The four of us, along with Leah’s sister Sheba, her little sister Sipporah, and nephew Bradley went blueberry picking last night. Yesterday evening was one of those days that you wish that summer lasted a lot longer up here. We had scrambled down a hill off the road to Nanisivik, in a little draw that