Northern Life
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Drifting
I know better. Yesterday Hilary and I were scheduled to fly to Iqaluit. She had some dental work that couldn't be done up here and so we were supposed to have spent a couple of days down there, returning hopefully in time for her to be Mary in her pre-school concert skit. (And as much
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Because 73 degrees isn’t far enough north
It is contest time once again. Quark Tours is offering a chance for someone to “Blog Their Way to the North Pole”, and I am giving it a shot. The rules are fairly simple, the five entries with the most votes move to the next round, when a panel decides which one of those will
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Can I have my milkrun back?
So the milkrun from Baker Lake that I anticipated didn't come about as planned. Now normally that would be a good thing, but at the end of the day I spent more time travelling then if the original flights had fallen in to place. In order to escape traveling in the arctic with your sanity
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Sundog days.
Lest you think that every day in Baker Lake was marked by zero visibilty and stifling winds, here is a photo taken from our conference room. Sundogs over Baker Lake.
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Blizzard!
So I'm slowly settling in from my trip to Baker Lake. Trying to return my daily life back to non-travel rhythms. My last bit of luggage arrived last night (and in true northern tradition that "luggage" was a duct taped cardboard box filled with caribou meat). So it is time to revist some of my
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Milk and honey
One of the aspects of life up here is that if you are traveling anywhere, you're traveling by airplane. It is pretty much the only option. Certainly a goodly number of people go between communities by snowmobile, it is the only affordable option, but there are no roads, no buses, and for all intents and
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Anchored down
I've been away from home for the past week. Work has taken me to Baker Lake, Nunavut's only inland community, in the Kivaliq region. I'm here for training workshops/conference with the other Economic Development Officers from across the territory. Bake Lake is windy. I have a few other impressions of the place (not many as
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Sun Down
Yesterday was the last day that the Sun is visible in Arctic Bay until early February. Oh, in truth there is another week or so at this latitude with the sun, but given Arctic Bay's location nestled in amongst the hills and fiords, we won't see it here. This is what the sky looked like