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<\/p>\nwith my friends in Aventura’s cockpit<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
We went to the local museum and found out some interesting facts. The
Inuit traditionally had two forms of shelter: in winter a peat and stone
house which included a few families and in summer each family had their
own seal skin tent. The Inuit invented the Annoraaq (anorak!) and the
kayak which are made of this completely waterproof sealskin which the
hunters would use.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\ntraditional Inuit kayak<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Throughout the village you could see the sledge dogs; we think of our
huskies when you think of the cold, but really, these sled dogs look
about three quarters wolf and quarter dog they have such a wild look
about them. These dogs are chained up and are fed fish.<\/p>\n
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<\/p>\nsledge dog eating Arctic char a local fish<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The only minor problem was the language barrier, my new friends knew a
few words of English from school, but I knew absolutely nothing. It just
gives you a wider view of how reliant we are that we can understand each
other\u2026<\/p>\n
Suddenly when that\u2019s taken away from us, we\u2019re kinda left like a fish
out of water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In Aasiaat the local people were quite interested in a yacht like us coming into the port. The rest of the boats were a mixture of fishing boats and little dinghies with outboard motors so …<\/p>\n