Blogs from Yukon, Canada, North America - page 28

hallo ihr lieben, haben eben mit erschrecken feststellen müssen, dass ihr nun fast drei wochen auf diesen eintrag warten musstet...die zeit vergeht wie im fluge. hier erst einmal das neueste: wir kommen wieder nach hause, und zwar am 22. november! also, man sieht sich schon bald wieder. seit dem letzten bericht haben wir mal wieder viel erlebt. den alaska highway sind wir von fort nelson aus noch bis watson lake im yukon territory gefahren. danach haben wir dann einen weit abenteuerlicheren weg gewählt, und zwar den campbell highway, der bis carmacks geht. dieser sogenannte highway ist eigentlich mehr eine schotterpiste, die bei uns nicht einmal als feldweg durchgehen würde. unsere umgebung dort bestand mal wieder aus bäumen, seen und flüssen und wir haben uns viel zeit gelassen und an schönen plätzen übernachtet. die farbe des bullis ... read more

There’s a land where the mountains are nameless, And the rivers all run God knows where; There are lives that are erring and aimless, And deaths that just hang by a hair; There are hardships that nobody reckons; There are valleys unpeopled and still; There’s a land — oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back — and I will. -Robert Service, from Spell of the Yukon Well Faithful Reader, I have returned from yet another excursion into the great wild yonder, and while my written recounting of the events that have unfolded will in all liklihood be quite similar other such entries, I do think that my pictures will be quite neat and I even have a video that I'm about 40% sure I can figure out how to attach. So if ... read more

July 4th 2008 Happy Belated Canada Day!!!! We hope everyone has enjoyed their long weekend off enjoying Canadian things to do! Our story continues...in Fairbanks, Alaska, a lovely city of 80,000ish people (more than the total people who live above latitude 60 in the whole of Canada). We wandered through the Museum of the North where there were great displays of wildlife, native culture and the ice age. They had two interesting replicas of frozen ice age animals found in Alaska, a baby wooly mammoth and a bison, dated to about 30,000 years ago. We browsed the art gallery and found a most peculiar room of sound. The seismic activity of the area was translated into vibration and sound which pulsated through the room as you sat on a bench looking at walls lighted with coloured ... read more

Hello from Whitehorse, the last night of our holidays, we are a day behind oz so it's Tuesday night at 8.20pm. We leave Wednesday at 11.55pm and arrive back in Sydney on Friday morning. Our last travel blog left us at Raspberry Island and we were supposed to do a half day bear view via sea plane in Katmai National Park, home to over 2,000 brown bears and at 3.00am that morning the wind shook our cabin and continued to do so until we we left at 10.00am. Unfortunately we did not get to do our bear view and this was probably the one thing I was really looking forward to doing out of all the trip, I had planned the trip around going to Kodiak Island for bear viewing, little to say we were both ... read more

We arrived in Whitehorse after a days run from Watson Lake. The terrain was not as mountainous and scenic as the day before, but lots of lakes and rivers and beautiful nonetheless. The town of Whitehorse is rich in history from the gold rush days, and does a booming tourist induscry. As the weekend we are here corresponds with the summer solstice, it also attracts tourists to see the very long days. In fact, on the night of the solstice, we left Whitehorse on a motorcycle ride that didn't start until 11 PM, and we didn't return until nearly 2 AM - all in daylight. Whitehorse is a town of about 24,000 people and is the capital city of the Yukon territory. The main industries here are mining, tourism, and government. As a territory of Canada, ... read more