Heading for the Barn!

Just a couple of horses headed for the barn the last two days.

We spent Wednesday night at K'San campground near New Hazelton, BC and left early the next day. We saw 2 moose and a bear Thursday.

Thursday night we stayed at Big Country RV Park north of Cache Creek, BC.

Big Country RV Park.
Okanagan Valley, BC
First glimpse of Idaho in 32 days.
End of the road (for a while).

Wildlife Tally for the trip:

Moose: 20 including about 5 calves

Black Bear: 18

Grizzly: 2

Wolf: 2 (large coyotes or small wolves)

Fox: 1

Stone sheep: 3 groups of 3-12 sheep each including 2 lambs

Dall sheep: about 100 lambs and ewes on Sheep Mtn., Yukon; several on hillside in Denali National park

Bald eagles: 20

Caribou: 5

Willow ptarmigan: 1

Swans: about 30 including 2 nesting pairs very close

Bison: 15 plus 3 calves

That's a pretty impressive tally for a little over a month!

End of the blog---thanks for following!

Driving the Cassiar Highway

We drove from Watson Lake on the Alaska Highway down the Cassiar Highway to New Hazleton on Yellowhead 16. It was a lovely drive and a beautiful day.

Pictures of Dease Lake from the Cassiar Highway. They were taken close to the spot where, in 1977, I turned over my VW camper after catching a loose rock and spinning out. Neither I nor my 2 dogs were hurt, and I was able to drive back the van to Denver, so it turned out okay.

It is now our favorite way to go to Alaska and back---needless to say, the road is much improved.


Mountains along the Cassiar. Oops--a duplicate and I am not sure how to remove it.

We saw a lot of wildlife today. 1 cow moose, 1 fox, and 6 bears. This is the only one we got a picture of. Most of them were black bears, but we think this might be a grizzly. Click on the pick and see what you think.

Whitehorse to Watson Lake

Nice morning in Whitehorse. Went to a couple of gift shops--no Native dolls. The Indian Craft Shop had a couple by an artist whose dolls I already have. But they told me about an exhibit of dolls at the Yukon Art Centre of Yukon College--starting in 2 days. :-(

It was an exhibit of dolls from the 3 northern territories of Canada--Yukon, Northwest, and Nunavut.

They showed me a book of the exhibit and suggested I go to the Centre to try to get a copy.

We went, and lo and behold, the exhibit was 90% set up (still working on the sound system for the interviews with doll makers), so I not only got to buy the book but got to see all of the dolls. PMTA!

Tried to take doll pictures, but the lighting was set up in a way that the pics did not come out.

Pictures of Ehitehorse from Yukon college.

After Whitehorse, we drove on to Watson Lake, stopping at the Rancheria Lodge for dinner.

Catching up with last 2 days!

We stayed at a campground without wi-fi night before last, and the wi-fi was down last night in this campground in Whitehorse, so I have a lot of photos to post.

White River RV PARK. We sat around the fire chatting with 2 couples from ENgland and 1 from Nevada, along with the owners. I was so busy chatting, I forgot to take pics.
White River owner took us up to the woods looking for diamond willow on this vehicle. Gorgeous day and beautiful ride.

White River owner on right, his wife on left.

We stopped at Silver City, a group of ruins on Kluane Lake. It was a trading post, RCMP station. and Barracks and later a fox farm.

This has always been one of my favorite spots on the Alaska Highway, so I took a lot of pics.



This is probably one of the fox pens. I remember seeing it in the 1950's, when foxes were still running around, although the farms had been long abandoned.





Lynn by a an abanoned vehicle--he says it has a six-cylinder engine.

We stopped at Tahkini Hot Springs before arriving at White Horse last night. I got to soak away the aches from the jouncing on the highway between Whitehorse and the AK border. The Milepost describes it: "a combination of good highway going bad and new construction". Think they are being charitable! :-)

Ferry To Homer

Two eagles on the hillside as we wait for the ferry to leave. (Click on it or you won't be able o see them.)
Good bye, Kodiak!

Hello Port Lions! (Short stop on the ferry.) The folks in Port Lions have no store, so they take the ferry (about 2 hours one way) in to Kodiak to shop.
Lynn walking Zorro and Schnicklefritz on the Port Lions dock.
Lynn walking Rusty on the Port Lions dock. (That is not a muzzle, it is a gentle leader. Without it, usty walks you insead of the other way around.)
If you look in the hole just above the yellow thing in the center of the picture, you will see the side of our motorhome being loaded onto a turntable, which swings it around then brings it up.
The motorhome is on the turntable at the top.
Starting off the turntable.
Coming off the ferry. Oops, I forgot to rotate the photo.

We got off the ferry and saw the most blue sky we had seen in a week. It got steadily bluer (and warmer) as we drove from Homer to Anchorage and then up to our RV park just east of Glennallen.

Leaving Kodiak

We did not get to eat at the senior center. They were having a dinner last night, so they did not have noon meal. So we went back to the King's Diner and had breakfast.

Then we looked at S. Herman's log chapel at St. Innocent's Seminary which is a smaller replica of anolder chursh.



After that we got in line for the ferry