An eclectic group of shots and observation.

An eclectic group of shots and observation..

An eclectic group of shots and observation.

Are we closer to the moon here, it looks bigger.

Clear nights for 10 days straight.

Cape Dorset is word renowned for their Inuit Arts. The print makers have a building in which they produce their works which I didn’t get into because of the hours I worked. but the local carvers do their thing at home and out side, often with lights set up and a wee cover.

It’s a dirty dusty job,chipping grinding and filling stone. This polar bear will one day find its way out of here to a gallery and home somewhere in the world.

I climbed the various hills about town to and from work and shot when I could.

My photo sensitive glasses go almost black on days like this, very little contrast in the scenes except some exposed rocks

Someone going somewhere on the other side of town shot at 200mm.

The thumb nail is so small I can’t see the glacier I am posting. I need bigger thumb nails.

I plan on walking over to the lookout today after I pack up my personal gear in preparations to fly into Iqualuit for the night. It appears in a number of shots but I must stand within it and shoot out.

This is beside the RCMP station, and I have no idea what it is representing as I didn’t get up close and personal with it.

Carting about all my gear in the big parka and pants and boots to reach some of these elevated locations is making me feeling pretty good. The first couple of mornings up the hill to work were killing me. It was -26 those mornings but I think this exercise thing is not so bad!

The roads are well maintained and pushed back all the way to the rocks, I guess in case they get a snow fall like in Clyde River , google that one.

This was out in front of Sam Pudlat school where the dental office is. The tachers and kids don’t seem to be offended by the smell of monomer. Bonus because it still affords me!

We are looking over cenral downtown and east Cape Dorset from one of the local high hills that protect the core from the westerly winds.

Heading into downtown.

A panoramic from what I call communication hill where the satellite transmissions and telephones function from.

David offered to walk with me to the edge of the island to the sea where the town park is. part way there is the fuel storage tanks and lots of containers that the ships have brought in. He found a small piece of lumber and was happy to take it home , said he would carve it.

Messing around out on the bay late one night, I think the tide was coming in a as you could hear the cracking and ice movement. I kept looking about for a polar bear but I think that I was just being a little paranoid.

These humans form at the shore during the freeze up with the tidal shifts they are present all around the shore and one needs a relatively clear path to get onto the bay.

The moon roes as the sun set, beautiful evening. I think I lost a lens cap. Poo.

A walk about town

Facing North East

Cape Dorset Suits from communication hill

The high school

Central neighbourhood

The waterfront on the bay

waterfront sunset

A waterfront home

Waiting for the thaw, and that begins in mid to late June, but day time temperatures in the minus teens indicates spring. It was a balmy -17c today.

Lots of these hunting canoes. Mentioned in an earlier shot that someone forgot to put their boat away , but that is not the case. These canoes are put on sleighs and towed out to the flow-age, which is where the ice meets the open sea water. There the canoes are launched and the hunt of seals, walrus and even polar bears begins if the hunter got a tag for bear.

Now this is a sure sign of spring boat cleaning.

There is really not a lot of snow but the winds can whip it up pretty good. Travel on foot is good because the snow is for the most part very hard packed, and the crunching hollow sound under foot is very unique, like I have never heard at home.

Although the bay is frozen, one can still tell when the tide is shifting, as the ice moans and groans as the water fluctuates underneath. The ice is 4-6 feet thick on the fresh water lakes where they ice fish , not so sure about the salt water.

Ok, salt water oceans depending on its salinity which usually is about 3.5% which equals 35 grams of salt per litre of water. This will freeze at -2c or 28F. I often wondered that, but never had a reason to look it up.

A look across the bay, well it looks like a bay but that is another Island. Cape Dorset is on Dorset Island and is the only settlement here.

The moon came up as the sun was setting and this was about 7:30 – 8:00

This is the North west neighbourhood at he top of the bay and where the beach is. It is very hard to picture this place in the summer. Here there is virtually no growth. People will visit family in Kimmirut
to go blueberry picking. My assistant and family went by canoe last summer and it took two days , the trip back was six days due to high seas and had to camp out and wait out the weather.

These hare the Canoes of the North, unless home made they are from the same company.

Another shot from roughly the same area

Cape dorset has about 5 neighbourhoods, this is the North west, the road eventually leads to the lake where the towns drinking water is piped in from.

He looks more cuddly here!

This is one strange looking husky, crossed with an African wild dog.

Kid wanted to try on my magnifiers, then another and another and…..

Long day at work

A friendly fac eon my walk to work. One of the team dogs. They are curled up in the morning but are moving about in the evening on my way back to the hotel.

I couldn’t resist on my first night the special was caribou tenderloin with a mushroom gravy. I am glad I took advantage of it as I have worked late since and haven’t been back. Wouldn’t mind a seal meal before I leave!