These pictures are just a few of the many silver linings during my surprise trip to Iqaluit in December 2013 to cover the sex abuse trial of Father Eric Dejaeger. Such spectacular rugged beauty! Iqaluit sits above the tree line so there’s not a tree or shrub to be seen, but it’s beautiful.
All the homes are built on stilts.
Iqaluit itself reminded me from time to time of a northern version of a cross between Port aux Basques and St. John’s. Newfoundland 🙂 It’s hilly, and rocky, and the houses are every colour of the rainbow.
Frobisher Bay was frozen solid. I was surprised to see that the shore line and well into the bay was masses heaved ice chunks. I try to fathom the Inuit living on the land, and travelling from A to B be it over the ice or land, and I just marvel.
The pictures can be enlarged first by clicking on the thumbnail, and further enlarged by clicking on the text above the picture which reads: “Full size is 4912 × 3264 pixels”
Thank you Santa. That was a trip of a lifetime 🙂
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- From the air, somewhere close to Iqaluit
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- There’s lots of colour in Iqaluit – homes, businesses and office buildings are painted every colour of the rainbow
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- Through car window on a blustery day
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- Through car window on a blustery day
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- Taken while driving and picture a bit fuzzy – but, more colour
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- The cemetery on the shores of the bay. That’s not water and waves you see out there – it’s ice
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- The Nunavut Legislative building in Iqaluit
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- A peek through a window at the beautiful Nunavut Legislative Assembly; All chairs and benches are covered in seal skin. It’s beautiful.
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- Taken from the road just outside Apex, a small community about 3 miles SE of Iqaluit
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- The rugged barren beauty of the North
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- Having a wee rest. Part of a dog team
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- On alert. Part of a dog team
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- That little white dot is a snowmobile heading back across Frobisher Bay to Iqaluit.
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- Coming in across the frozen bay, rifle on back and qumatik in tow
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- At shores edge of the frozen bay
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- Plane coming in for a landing at Iqaluit
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- Road to Municipal Quarry
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- Looking down the hill behind Iqaluit
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- Looking down and back on the community of Iqaluit – nestled around and up from the shores of frozen Frobisher Bay
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- IIqaluit: Looking out towards Frobisher Bay
Beautiful views, thanks for sharing.