Igloos and On the Land

An old picture of a Hudson Bay store

The Hudson Bay Company was founded in 1670. It was "the" company to go to for fur trading. It now exists as HBC (The Bay). One of the original buildings is in Repulse Bay beside The Northern (our local general store) located on the Hudson Bay. It is the white building with red roof and trim.

To give you an idea of where we're located...here's a little map. We're at the top of the Hudson's Bay.

This is the view from a small hill in the town

Repulse Bay

A ski-doo going out fishing with a qamutik (sled)

Shane and I went out with Elsa and Julia some to an igloo they had built about a month ago...still holding up!

Inside the igloo on caribou skins

Igloo roof

Going out

Shane moving his way out

Snuggles by the igloo

Julia and Shane pose with tools for building an igloo (saw and snow knife)

View of the sea ice and Jenn's ski-doo (Shane's gun for protection...you never know)

Arctic Cat on the Arctic Cat:) On the Sea Ice

Beautiful View

The Arctic Landscape

This week I had the chance to be out on the land with my class and Jenni's class. Our plan...hunt, fish, cook and eat! This is us getting ready at school to go. Qamutiks and ski-doos are our form of transportation

View from the Qamutik

Beautiful View on the way

A short break on the way

Caribou migrating

Setting up camp

Auger to make a fishing hole

Lucy with her leg in a hole...the hole wasn't deep...the auger hit a rock and we weren't successful with the fishing

Laimmiki and Justin scoping out caribou

The first caribou caught by Tiffany

Christina and Tiffany with their caribou (the first ones they've ever caught, they were so proud)

View of the land

A beautiful day

Larva that is usually inside the hide of a caribou (the kids love to eat them)

Larva on the caribou skin

Cleaning the caribou

Cutting up the meat for lunch...I was the head chef;)

Tenderloin...yum!

My creation

My kitchen

Jenni, Anita and Lucy enjoying lunch on a caribou skin (one we had brought, not a fresh one)

Me, Anita and Lucy

Tiffany and Me

Cleaning up the meat to bring back to town

Skins and meat on the front of the qamutik (sled)

View from camp (on a lake)

View on the way home

Amazing view

Our Crew

The spring in the North is beautiful. There is so much to see with the sun coming up around 3am and setting around 10pm. The weather is warmer (around -10) and allows us to experience life on the land.

Stay tuned for the last month of Arctic Cat Adventures!