Sunday, July 10, 2022

Tuk and the Artic Ocean

 Sunday,  July 10 - Tuktoyaktuk, NWT

Town of Inuvik sign


Getting gas at Bob's Gas Bar welding, car wash, laundramat, aggregates, etc


Driving on a foggy day north to Tuktoyaktuk. First, we have been pronouncing this wrong - it's TUK-tee-uk-tuk, but everyone just calls it Tuk. 




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

While we wish we had interacted and done more in Tuk, it was a dreary Sunday and we decided not to spend the night here when we learned from a local that a young man in their community had committed suicide this afternoon. For such a tight knit community this affected everyone and we wanted to respect their time to grieve.  So back to Inuvik we went.



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