day six: yay wildlife!

On Tuesday morning I was woken up at about 6:40am by a bizarre squawking noise. It was a raven, and I've discovered that they rarely sound the same way twice. They stick around Iqaluit a good portion of the year and are pretty common. They don't seem to be that much of a nuisance but I haven't been here that long. The other bird I've seen is the snow bunting. Dad and I saw the first one of the season last night on our way to the Frobisher, and Dad says it's a sure sign of spring.

The one thing I really want to see here are the narwhals. You can really only see them further north, like at Pond Inlet in late August. It's really expensive to go see them, so maybe in a few years. My dad says they are amazing to see. They swim with their tusks above the water. My dad actually has a giant narwhal tusk. It's taller than I am.

While you generally don't see many animals in the city besides dogs that are usually a mix between a husky and something else, you can see what people have been hunting in the area because they put the skins on racks outside their houses to dry. There's a house with a seal skin across the street from me and when Dad and I went for a drive we saw two polar bear skins.

In bizarre "small-world" news, a girl I went to high school with works at the Frobisher Inn bar. I ran into her last night. We weren’t friends or anything, but it was kind of crazy. She also works for the airline. And I thought I had gotten here first.