Usually the excitement on Friday afternoon is due to the upcoming weekend.  This Friday the weekend took a back seat to the large pod of Beluga whales passing through Elim.  In a matter of a couple hours 8 different whales and been shot and brought to shore.  Most of the village came down to the beach to help pull the the whales up and butchering.  If you weren’t helping cut up there was plenty to talk about.

I didn’t help butcher but I was busy getting recipes for Pickled mungtuk (the blubber) and learning how to make dry meat.  Here they are rinsing the sand off before they start cutting.

Once all the mungtuk is off they take start cutting the meet out.

I was given some meat and mungtuk, but Dianna and I don’t eat a whole lot of the meat or mungtuk, so I so no need for a whole slab of either.  Here is a small piece of mungtuk, that I will try to pickle.  Also, a chunk of meat that I will strip and make dry meat.  I also took a small chunk off and fried it up for dinner.  Its nice to have fresh meat once in a while.  It’s kind of like your eating beef with a fishy taste.