Down south, the semis, ships, and trains can run 365 days a year. Not as easy of a task in the arctic. There are no train tracks, nor are there roads for long-haul semi-trailers. Nunavut relies on sea cargo shipments that only come once or twice a year in the short months of open water. Today the first of our two Sea Lifts arrived! This ship contains goods for the hamlet and stores in town (as far as I know.) In the next few weeks, the (for lack of a better term) "residential" sealift will arrive with goods ordered by townsfolk to come north.
Ours will be mostly doggo food again, to be honest. 😅
Quote from last year's Sea Lift blog
As for what our order consisted of.... Honestly, it was mostly for the dog! She got 10 big bags of dog food, which now looking at the stak we know is MEGA OVERKILL. As well as doggy biscuits. 14 kg of doggy biscuits. A couple of big bags of pigs ears and a big box of greenies. I hope she enjoys them.
Mega overkill it was not! Since we decided to get a new dog around Christmas, we ended up running out of dog food in late June and had to break down and buy the nearly $200 bags of dog food in the local store. Bags that cost $70-80 down south. Probably even less if you're 'Murican
This was also a good chance to get to use my new camera and lens combination. I am very proud of my new setup, consisting of a Nikon D750 camera body. Full frame, a little older, but a very sharp image that looks a LOT cleaner than my p900. I have now paired it with my dream lens, a Tamron 150 - 600 mm f 5-6.3 G2. I am really looking forward to getting out in the sun to photograph the now migrating flocks of geese.
Winter is coming.
*A LOT of goods do also get flown in year-round so that we have fresh produce and milk, bread etc. Most of which is subsidized by Nutrition North and SHOCKINGLY decently priced (If you're from Saskatchewan, and factor in what it takes to get grapes from South Africa to the Arctic Circle anyway!)
Last year I made a post about the sealift as well. You can read more about it here! @lacking/second-wal-mart-trip-of-the-year-not-actually-it-s-another-sealift-qg3224
