Inuvik and Back Again

It was raining when we arrived in Inuvik on Friday afternoon and still raining when we left Saturday.

It was around 4:30 when we got to the motel and the young man who runs Up North Tours was still at the desk since they couldn't fly out for the evening tour due to the weather. In fact, the weather had canceled a lot of his tours. He indicated that the weather was supposed to clear on Saturday afternoon but if it didn't he wouldn't run our charge so we signed up for the flight to Tuktoyaktuk which is on the Arctic Ocean. Whales, musk ox, caribou and Inuits are just some of the things we might have seen as well as riding in a small plane over the ocean. We had a nice dinner at the only sit-down restaurant in town. It's still raining.

And it was still raining when we got up! We walked in the pouring rain to the visitor center next door to the motel and learned a lot about the region and native peoples. Even the attendant at the center couldn't tell us of much anything else to do after that. When we checked on our tour at 2 PM, we were told that the weather was moving back in and that the tour was canceled. I was really disappointed! Considering we had done all there was to do in Inuvik, we loaded up the Jeep and headed back toward Dawson. We got to Eagle Plains around 8 PM having taken another big rock hit in the windshield, in the same part of the road as on the way up. It is already spreading.