Sunday, February 21, 2010

Inukshuk-A Symbol of the Vancouver Games

This is where all workforce get dropped off for work.

Kathy, one of my roommates, works at the biathalon just up the road from my workplace.

Shaka, my traveling gnome, is next to an inukshuk that someone built next the entrance to the press venue at WOP.

Shaka loved that they have inukshuk in his size.

I took this picture while waiting for the shuttle back home after work.

The inukshuk is a stone landmark built by humans in the Arctic region. It has been used for navigation as a point of reference a marker for hunting grounds, or as a food cache. This symbol can be found everywhere. I've see then in random places around WOP, Whistler Olympic Village, and on sides of the road. They are made from rocks, boulders, and snow. I just had to buy a pair of earrings with dangling inukshuk.

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