Northern Life
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Midnight at the Oasis
Although blurry from Camera shake, this photo will give you an idea of how much light we have right now. Although we’re more than a couple of weeks away from 24 hour sun we pretty much have 24 hour light now. This photo was taken a few minutes ago at midnight, and although the sky
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Some odds and ends
If you haven’t checked out the Nunavut Blogs! blogroll in a while, there has been some more blogs added, eight in total now. Arctic Bay is no longer my exclusive blogging domain, for amongst the new blogs is Way Way Up. Way Way Up is the blog of Darcy, one of the local teachers here.
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Vernal Equinox
Today is the day of the Vernal or Spring Equinox. Although my spring is still a long way off this does mark the day where all the world has the same amount of sun as us. From now on though, for the next six months we’ll have the sun above the horizon more than practically
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The Sky this morning
This is what my walk to work looked like this morning. Unseasonably warm, it is only -2 C. Time to break out the barbeque.As an added bonus here are three pictures of the House, taken today in the sun.
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New Baby. New Amautiq
I’ve been meaning to write about Amautiqs, the inuit woman’s parka, for sometime now. Really I was waiting for better pictures to post, but getting a picture of Leah is akin to getting one of the Loch Ness Monster, although I am sure that Leah exists. The amautiq is a marvel, capable of holding a
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Here comes (is) the Sun.
The sun returned to Arctic Bay today, peeking over the horizon about 10 minutes before noon. It was kind of wild to see sunlight on walls again. From now until the beginning of May we’ll get about 20 minutes more of the sun every day. I especially love the the three months between 24 hour
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It’s on its way.
In case this picture doesn’t make any sense, that is the sun shining on King George Mountain, today. It’s almost back. In three more days we’ll get our first glimpse of the sun since November 5th. It should be somewhere over here…
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Arctic Travel, the adventure.
You can’t get there from here. Yesterday, when I got home for lunch, Leah greeted me with the news that Travis had an appointment at one at the Nursing Station, and if his check up was okay he had to leave on the afternoon’s plane for Iqaluit. Travis needed some dental work done under a
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What’s in a name?
For Inuit, naming a baby is very important. Generally speaking babies are named after someone, usually someone who has passed on, and it is believed that the child "takes on" the spirit of the person they are named after. In essence they grow into the name. Leah’s youngest sister, for example, is named after her
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Inuktitut Dancing
Well I finally downloaded some video to the computer. And as promised here is a video clip of Inuktitut Dancing . It is just raw video, I didn’t do any editing (no time, no time, no time) but it will give you a taste of what the dance is about. This clip is about 3:20