Coping with public and private transport since 2001
No, we are not that northerly yet. 😉 They are called Kermoda bears, also know locally as ghost bears or spirit bears. They have a recessive gene which makes them white or off-white in color. All natural! It’s like with redheads in humans. Regular Black bears also have color variations, as they come in a variety of colors, among which
Continue readingToday was a pretty dull day actually. We started off this morning on high spirits with a good breakfast and the prospect of some driving and some nice activities. Unfortunately, the latter has bot proven to be right. Nor has the first for that matter. The drive itself was good, yet dull. I mean, call us spoiled, but after nearly
Continue readingThis post might also have been called ‘Rushing for Gold, part 2’ as we are still driving over the Cariboo Wagon Road, or Gold Rush Route. Now stopping at Prince George for a well deserved break, todays journey has been quite long, strenuous and quicker than anticipated. TomTom and Google both told us, today would be a full 5 hour
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Canada was pioneered by pelt hunters, loggers and gold miners, and the major route for the latter category of people was from Lilleoot to Prince George via highway 97, then known as Cariboo Wagon Road. This road was constructed in the mid 1800’s as the main road north in the gold rush after a Mr Barker struck gold in a
Continue readingAfter we got up quite late, at around 8 am, we started our day with some sandwiches and a drive from our hotel to Wells Gray Provincial Park. After having driven to all easily accessible falls yesterday, today would be a day filled with hiking and trails to get our legs working again, and to see all beauty of the
Continue readingToday was another day of moving for us, we left cosy Jasper and headed out on highway 5 to Wells Gray Provincial Park. In particular, we left for Clearwater but that is so tiny, the Provincial Park is the only reason for its existence. Clearwater is basically built right next to the highway, with our hotel literally metres away from
Continue readingYet another day in Canada’s finest of parks: Jasper National Park. The brochures describe it as the gentle giant. Next to Banff NP it is larger but also a little less developed and more “rustic”. Which means there are less signs, less described trails and, unfortunately, less bears. Today though, we did see one black bear, which is quite a
Continue readingDriving from Banff to Jasper is a treat. First off, we started on the highway 1a again, like the days before. This time, the catch wasn’t as grand as before, but every animal you encounter is by chance anyway. Our luck probably was completely used up by then. 🙂 Arriving at the end of highway 1a you encounter Lake Louise,
Continue readingAfter the apparent successes of yesterday we were hoping another early start would yield an equal result. How wrong were we! Let me remind you: yesterday’s yield was 5 bears and a lot of wapiti. Today’s list is like this: 3 bears (of which 1 mother and her cub) quite a few wapiti and mule deer and 2 wolves. I’m
Continue readingThis morning meant a really very early start in the morning. Around 6, we left the hotel to get a cup of coffee to start the day well. At 06:15 we checked in at Tim Horton’s to get our caffeine inside the bodies. All was needed to start the day around dusk on highway 1a which takes you from Banff
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