Sunday, July 10 - Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
Town of Inuvik sign
Getting gas at Bob's Gas Bar welding, car wash, laundramat, aggregates, etc
Yellow flowers!
Ski mobiles and sleds are left by the side of the road, ready to use when needed to get to hunting and fishing grounds
These damn mosquitoes - but at least we are now remembering our "silly suits"
Beautiful flowers are abundant along the road
I had questioned where locals would get wood out here, then we saw these piles of driftwood
Gallows humor - this was right next to the hospital and in front of the nursing home
Traditional sod house, with room for the animals too
Hmm - "Donated on behalf of Pope Pius XI in the 1930s, the schooner Our Lady of Lourdes sailed the Beaufort Sea for decades, delivering supplies to far-flung Catholic missions and carrying Inuvialuit children to Cathloic residential schools. Since 1982 the vessel has sat on display near Tuktoyaktuk's Catholic mission." Tourism website.
We made it!
At least here, at this time, it was much warmer than the Atlantic off Maine or the Pacific in Washington
(We were on the allowable side)
Just a little dirty - and this was after washing the windows
Fishing huts
Stopped at the only restaurant in town (although there were take out options at the 2 grocery stores - one of which, although it said it was open on Sunday, was not)
Alas, neither was Grandma's Kitchen - despite the posted times - things work on Inuvialuit time here
Whale bones
360 view from pingo (ice heave mound) in Tuk
I was amazed at all the flowers in the Artic
I loved the fluff balls - soft like angorra
The two largest pingos in the area
Sandhill cranes
Another view of the pingos
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