Good work babe! Not centred, but at about 500 yards, and 63X optical zoom, it's hard to even find your target, let alone get it in the middle of the picture (I know, I could have edited it but that would be like rolling the ball to improve your lie - seems like cheating!)
To give you an idea of what Mardi pulled off, I took this picture later in the morning. The moose was at the other side of the river.
This is the view looking to the left from our cabin. This is a beautiful spot.
And this is a picture of the "airport" across the street.
The small sign at the right bottom corner of the "AIRSTRIP KEEP OFF" sign says "NO ATV's, NO HORSES, ON RUNWAY". The "runway" is between the blue wooden blocks, if you can see them, The runway is maybe just a good golf drive long.
After Mardi got the day off to such a good start, things could only get better, and they did!
Saw six black bears today. "Smokey" was the first. That makes seven black bears and one grizzly (the brown juvenile in yesterday's pictures).
And two Stone Sheep ewes getting their mineral fix of calcium carbonate.
Then a small herd.
And the Boss!
Each year, the Wood Bison in this area lose almost 10% of their herd as road kill. We counted 14 calves in just this one group, so hopefully they can stay ahead of the game.
We also saw three old solitary bulls (they don't join the herd until sex is mentioned). This guy was the best! Wouldn't want to challenge him!
You know you're on the Alaska Highway when your GPS tells you to make a right hand turn in 792 kilometres!
As we continue our progress northwestward through the Northern Rockies, each day becomes more awesome, and the accomplishments of the 11,000 army engineers and their 13,000 civilian counterparts (many indigenous peoples contributed to the project) in conquering the landscape becomes more incredible!
This is Muncho Lake. The jade colour doesn't show well in our photos. Many of yesterday's and today's pictures were taken under leaden skies, with haze, and between intermittent showers. The long days of sunlight also produce a weird kind of light that doesn't do pictures justice.
We crossed into the Yukon here. But the highway crisscrosses the B.C./Yukon border seven times before it gets serious and stays in the Yukon.
Next up was Liard Hot Springs. The seven springs that contribute to the pool start above this shelf and the temperature at that point is about 50C.
Temperature is over 40C at the camera end of the pool and 30C at the other end.
The temperature here is about 35C. Mardi conceded at the 40C level.
Today's Big Stupid Thing is actually about 80,000 things. Back in 1942 a soldier added his home city to a sign with Alaska Highway destinations on it. Others followed and then things got out of hand.
Rows upon rows. Unbelievable!
One final note. At 9:30 p.m. on a SUNDAY! night we legally bought a bottle of Canadian Club. They are open from noon to midnight seven days a week! Now that's civilized!
We're spending the day tomorrow in Whitehorse. There's a native festival three blocks down the street, then a visit to the S.S. Klondike, and whatever else we can find of interest. We head to Alaska the following day.
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