Inuvikphotos.ca (Daily views from the NWT)

Here’s the apartment…it’s a nice quiet place, which is only a short walk away from downtown.

Here’s the “inuvik boot grille” I’ve been talking about. Some buildings downtown have stairs and walkways made of sharp metal grills — like a cheese grater. It’ll be useful this winter, when everything is covered in ice.

No good for skateboarding, though!

Here’s a picture I took at the Yellowknife shooting range a while back, while covering a trap shoot competition. They were nice enough to let me try a hand gun. “Heavier than expected” is all I can say; I couldn’t hold it very long at arms’ lengh.

There were two power outages in Inuvik today, and the internet has been achingly slow.

I’m not sure what’s up, but I have about 15 pictures to post when things get better.

Ravens are the most common birds around here. While I have seen seagulls, fishers and the occasional grouse, they are outnumbered by these large swooping ravens; ugly animals who look like the gathered witches in Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

I photographed this one in the riverside fishing community of Tsiigehtchic. It was the size of a chicken.

Here’s something you don’t see every day: A tiny black Labrador trying to gnaw a moose (or caribou) leg.

I caught this little ankle-biter on the side of Mackenzie street, which is the main drag in Inuvik. There was no other meat around; probably the result of a hunting expedition, leaving scraps for stray dogs.

Though wasting meat is illegal in Inuvik (so that people don’t hunt for antlers alone) I am sure this dog appreciated the scraps.