Tulita is a hamlet of about 500 people.  There are two churches, one gas station, one airport, and one store.  

This is the view from just outside our house.  That shadow in the bottom left is our house.  The mountain in the distance is Great Bear Rock.  It is sacred to the locals, and people have been known to climb it in the summer.

Here's another view of Great Bear Rock, with Great Bear River in the foreground.  This was taken just north of town.  Everyone's water comes from this river, although it runs through a purifier first.  Each house has a tank, usually about 1000 litres, like the one below. A truck comes once or twice a week to fill the tank.  We were orignally told that water was 90 cents per litre.  It's actually .09 cents a litre.

Near the river, the landscape isn't much different than that of our home in Eastern Canada.  The soil is rich, and there is a nice mix of deciduous and coniferous trees.  But as you move away from the river, the soil gets thiner and rockier.  Up at the airport, on the eastern edge of town, The Barrens begin.  

The runway is in the foreground, and the other end of Great Bear Rock is in the background.  My camera can't do the mountains justice.  If you look to the right from here, you can see other plateaus off in the distance, along with great stretches of nothingness.  

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