C - day 17 Cambridge Bay

 We were moored in Cambridge Bay when we awoke ready for our community visit after breakfast

First look at Cambridge Bay community

Landing 

Metalwork from scrap by the local welding trainees

The musk ox represents the Inuit people and the wolves the westerners trying attack their ways and change them

An original community house supplied by the Canadian government in the 1950s to house the relocated Inuit

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police offices

Not a good time of year for huskies

The very flash Canadian High Arctic Research Station (Chars)

The meeting room

Felt art

The local visitor centre - traditional tattoos on a local

Creative sculpture

The only kind of polar bear you would want to get close to.

A treat of local food made by the local community - included arctic char, caribou, narwhal and local fried bread (bannock)

We also walked out of town to see what bird life mights be around - tundra swans

Brant’s geese

Sandhill cranes

White fronted geese

When we got back on board Gibby, one of our Inuit ambassadors had bought his Brice and triplet nephews on board

Leaving Cambridge Bay