Quaqtaq school

Here are some links for the High School in Quaqtaq. Thanks Catherine.
Quaqtaq - Isummasaqvik School | Kativik School Board

• School documents | Isummasaqvik
• Our organization | Kativik School Board
• Quaqtaq, Quebec - Education, field of study, location of study
• Partnership agreement between Makivik Corp. and Chez Doris | Makivik
• Regular Sector Schools | Kativik School Board

Steve presents his trip to Quaqtaq at the Intercambio - Hispano Laval

Steve presents his trip to Quaqtaq to the Spanish conversation group Saturday morning. There were lots of questions.

More pictures by Jean-Pierre : Intercambio - Hispano Laval - Picasa Web Albums

Gigapan of Quaqtaq

gigapan of Quaqtaq: I took these 74 pictures standing on the hill at the center of the village. I set the camera to high speed 'sports mode' to reduce blurring and just held the button down while I painted the scene in long horizontal bands with the camera. 10 seconds later I had all the shots.


I stitched them together using autostitch.net software (free) with options set at 175% and uploaded it to my account uging the gigapan uploader (free).  Note the buildings identified at the bottom with shortcuts to zoom in.


Then I copied the link to my blog. Very cool. 

Thanks for the inspiration Leopold.


References:

• AutoStitch
• download the Gigapan uploader
• Dream toy: GigaPan Epic Pro Offers Professional Photographers Excellent Panoramic Shots » My Digital Life
• Gigapan Systems Online - Stitching and Uploading Panoramas

Landing in Jamaica, er: Quebec City

Dropping through the clouds, the vision of  wall to wall green is so intense I imagined this was Jamaica. So green, so green. All the colours are so intense to me. Bright colours in the arctic landscape mean slight variations of the rock from deep black to iron rust red.  Tiny flowers milimetres across burst forth with the colours of the tropics. The summer season is so short some seeds grow one year, pause and finish the cycle by blooming the following summer.

Finally on my way. Halfway home.

It is a beautiful morning, I should have left Friday, but here I am leaving Monday morning. The fog is out to sea and the sun is shining over Quaqtaq; it is looking good. I check in at 9:15 only to find out I'm on standby! Bob makes a call and the tags are changed. That's power. Jusipi and I did the baggage handling at the airport since the poor girl at the counter was alone. It was FUN.

I'm writing this from 8000 meters between Schefferville and Quebec City. I had a hot lunch but feel stuffed from not moving at all for so many hours. 

Steve crosses a stream on a four wheeler

From 10 AM to 5 PM on the land, tough.  Then at the last stream, we wash the four wheeler down with ice cold melt water in a teapot. Did I mention it was fun. My arms and back will be in pain tomorrow from all that rough riding. Walking the four wheeler in low gear over rocks is really surprising. These machines are incredible, they climb over anything, even very steep angles. Because it is spring, the road is often closed by heavy show or a deep stream; forcing us to pick our way around hills over all kinds of difficult terrain, sharp rocks, crevasses, mud, swamps, more streams. At one point the stream was too deep and we had to "walk" in low gear over hundreds of yards of boulders and rocks. Had I not been with Jusipi, I would never have attempted any of the routes we took to reach the camp. It seems I had to pay close attention to every meter along the way; sneaking between sharp rocks, choosing the best path was not easy. This is a Can-Am 650 cc machine. Thanks Bob.

Out on the land, again

Cold you say? There are no thermometers here. But the hat was untied just for the photograph. Bad Hat is actually perfect, courtesy of Bob.

Ice floe skimming

Kids will be kids. They love sliding on the loose ice as the tide comes in. As usual parents don't like it one bit. Retired Suzie sais "But it's so much fun to do when you are young".

Safety on the land

Who ya gonna call 100 km from the settlement? This $1000 Iridium sattelite phone is great insurance.

Horizontal snow

The plane didn't land this afternoon, the ceiling was much too low.

Iceberg water

I stick to my usual breakfast of protein isolate and fiber (oatmeal today). The melted iceberg sits in the large pot, ready for use.

Map of metropolitain Quaqtaq

Now with street names! I live on Dion street, at the bottom of the map and work downtown at the corner of Isumavik and Niuraivik by the bridge. Population 350.

The flag that gets around

Hola Jaime y todos los amigos desde el norte. Un perro llamado Max. Nieve a principios de junio.

Inuit calligraphy

Angel writes out the names of her six dogs.
Amaruk, Tarsalik, Tarqulik, Tantra, Qinirk, Blue eye.

Muktuk, Quaqtaqs raison d'être

Mmm lunch! More like desert actually. Historically inuit came from all over Nunavik to hunt whales on the point near the village. Eating whale skin on the kitchen floor is de rigueur.

Out on the land on a sunny spring day.

Actually just a walk in the tundra near the town. The landscape defines the word rugged.

Cutlery of an other sort

The uluk (uluit plural). Thanks Eva.

honda four wheelers

Honda trx 2002 15000km 3800$ 350cc pinot
http://annoncez.branchez-vous.com/d-vehicules-vtt-mascouche-ensemble-unique--vtt-motomarine-et-remorque-double-LPCaZZ21755622
JK

The plane doesn't make it every day.

The weather is quite bad this morning, the plane will not land. I hope it blows over today and that all will be clear tomorrow morning for my return to Montreal.

Click here to track the flight: FlightAware > Air Inuit Ltd. #821

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