Location: English Bay ( click for map ) I spent a good long time living away from Vancouver and have visited a fair few different cities and countries and everywhere I've been, I have come across one of these fellows.
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Location: English Bay
(click for map)
I spent a good long time living away from Vancouver and have visited a fair few different cities and countries and everywhere I've been, I have come across one of these fellows. They travel well and crop up in the most unexpected places, the Canadian answer to Amelie's gnome.
Up until now all that I've known about the inukshuk (the preferred Inuit spelling actually being inuksuk) was that it represented Inuit people somehow, was fashioned out of rocks and made me smile. These structures were (are?) in fact used as navigational aids or message boards and the word inuksuk means to "act in the capacity of a human" and are not to be confused with the human-like stone figure, the inunnguaq, which translates as "in the likeness of a human."
Interesting stuff, thanks for this Jason!
There was a lot of amazing photography in the pool this week folks, please keep posting and spreading the word about the Unplugged Flickr Pickr.
It’s that point in your consciousness where you can feel at one with nature, escaping the trappings of the day-to-day to an almost dream-like place where nothing else seems to exist besides you and your natural surroundings. It is our opinion here at VIA that Vancouver holds a unique place in the civilized world in that reaching this state often requires no more effort than simply pulling off to the side of the road, pocketing your keys and taking a few steps into the forest
