Inukshuk

Here is a photo of the moon rising over an Inukshuk just outside Igloolik. This photo was taken at 2:30 P.M. (click on photo to view full size)

At the Beach

Here I am at the beach in Igloolik. I actually have a great beach view from my bedroom window. However, I haven't seen anyone going for a swim yet.

Igloolik Detachment

This is the Igloolik detachment. The force housing is just to the right. The housing is quite nice. Two floors three bedrooms and hardwood floors. Nice big kitchens as well. The would actually work well for a family. Unfortunately you would be stuck in the house alot. When I took this photo it was -35.

Iqaluit

This is a photo of an Inuksuk I took on the hill above Iqaluit. The view is towards downtown. If you click on the picture it will show it in an expanded size

First Day

Well its my first day Igloolik relief. So far no calls which is a good thing because its -34 with a wind chill of -47. On the bright side its sunny out and I'm inside the detachment. Just had one of the locals come in and temporarily incarcerate himself as he thought he might get into trouble and wanted to take preemtive measures. Its too bad we can't get our southern clients to do the same. Hopefully this is a sign of things to come as I really don't want to go outside right now.

No Photo's

Due to technical problems I seem unable to upload photo's. Hopefully I will get this problem fixed in the next few days. In the meantime no pictures just ramblings

Travel To Igloolik

Hope everyone is doing well. I am now up in Igloolik after Three days of travel. I though I might not even get to leave initially because the Comox airport was fogged in but Westjet did manage to land. The trip to Calgary was great as each seat had its own satellite T.V. I could watch any number of channels for free. Although I decided to skip Discovery Chanel as they were running top 10 air disasters so I went with global news instead. Unfortunately no T.V.'s for the trip to Ottawa. Go figure TV for a 1.5 hour trip, no T.V. for a 3.5 hour trip.

Left Ottawa on the 31st and flew up to Iqaluit. The flight was uneventful however, on landing it turned out the exit door was frozen stuck and it took 20 minutes to get the doors open so we could disembark. As I had already had lunch I wandered around town and looked around. I walked up the hill behind town where I took the photo of the small inukshuk. I was later asked why on earth I would walk that far. It did seem like a good idea at the time although it was a bit of a climb to the top. However, it was a balmy -27 and I didn't really have much else to do. I did check out the local North Mart. It is Iqaluit's answer to Wal Mart only more expensive. 2 liters of Milk was $7.00 and Green Peppers were $6.99lb. However, it was handy to see that they had a large selection of Ski Doo's sitting beside the boxes of Diapers. I can just see it now explaining to Patti that I went for diapers for Rowan and came back with a brand new ski doo instead. Incidently the diapers were $69.99 for a box. I did have an excellent dinner at the Frobisher, Arctic Char with veg and a beer. Cost was $44.00. I don't think that was completely unreasonable as a similar meal down south would have probably run around $30.00

Flew out to Igloolik on the 1st. It is definitely colder here, -30 with a wind chill of -40, compared to Iqaluit where it was -25. Met Mike Siedman whom I am replacing. He seemed glad to see me as he was leaving on the plane I just got off of. I had a quick tour of town and then my co-worker Mike Simpson left me to my own devices. I had lunch and wandered around town checked out the two stores and walked down to the beach. I'm sure it’s a great place to get some sun in the summer.

That's about it for now. Please feel free to post comments so I know you haven't forgotten me.