Homes for an Alaskan village

2009-0610_alaska_houses.jpgCareful is the big word around this enormous crane which is setting the first of 39 units on a trailer.  The trailer then creeps over to a spot within reach of another huge crane which loads each house unit onto a barge.
 
Once on dry land, these housing units will be connected to make 19 living spaces and a garage/shop in Hooper Bay, Alaska, a little village of about a thousand souls located 525 miles west of Anchorage.

A native corporation called Paug-Vik is receiving the new homes which are complete with appliances.  Tyvek guards the doors and windows against salt spray and seagulls for the long trip across the Gulf of Alaska.