After about a year in Canada, I finally saw a moose while up in the Yukon. Two mooses. Conveniently located at Two Moose Lake, along the Dempster Highway.
Moose Two
Moose One
More tales of the Yukon coming soon, once I’ve had a little more sleep.
Category: travel
After living here for nearly a year, we finally visited Lake Louise and drove up the Icefields Parkway to Jasper on the weekend, in a bout of touristing with Mum. It wasn’t fatal, but camping and road trips sure are popular round here in Summer. We fought our way up the highway through streams of traffic, and battled for campground space with RVs. Vicious chipmunks attempted to eat our shoes and car tyres, and vicious panpipe and trumpet players attempted to assault our ears. We were not crushed by the relentless retreat of the Athabasca Glacier, and no tourists fell down a crevasse, despite crossing the barriers and dancing round on the glacier and posing for silly photos. Oh, and we also escaped unscathed from the man-eating Canada Geese at Maligne Lake.
Golden-mantled ground squirrel, at the Lake Agnes Teahouse near Lake Louise
Poppies outside the Lake Louise Chateau
Athabasca wuz ere in ’82
Train tracks outside of Jasper
Tomorrow we’re jumping on a ship and sailing up to the Yukon, where I’ll wrestle a moose, then tame it and ride it back to Canmore. And also drive up to Dawson City, and the Dempster Highway – well that’s the plan anyway.
Categories
the south america round-up
kitten fishing in santiago de chile
mendoza, argentina
the southest i’ve ever been
arriving in patagonia
parque nacional torres del paine
around the park
into bolivia
hot-tubbing bolivian style
my very first geyser (a.k.a. i can see why safety fences are sometimes a good idea)
through the altiplano
hotel de sal (yes i licked the walls)
salar de uyuni
uyuni, bolivia
lake titicaca
cusco, peru
inka trail – day one
inka trail – day two
inka trail – day three
inka trail to machu picchu
lima, peru
screaming slugs – the highlights
The Screaming Slugs came to South America too, and were alarmed by most things they saw there.
A cactus on an island in the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
In the middle of the Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia
At Machu Picchu, Peru
In a Richard Serra installation at Toronto Airport, Canada
After a Winter-extending sojourn in South America (bizarre in hindsight – the seven months of Winter I’d had already wasn’t enough?), I was back in the Rockies – and it was warm! We jumped in the car and drove down to Fernie in British Columbia, cruising down along through the green foothills of the Rockies. We even passed a fence that had a truckers hat on every pole – nearly as impressive as New Zealand’s toothbrush fence (Imagine that, a whole fence made out of toothbrushes!).
But then there was the wedding – a friend getting married on a mountain-top in the Canadian Rockies.
Riding the chairlift to the summit
And despite the threatening rain, the weather stayed mostly clear, and it was a beautiful day.
The bride and groom