Tag: fall road trip
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Day 14, Bemidji, MN to Three Lakes, MI
Our fun stop for the day was the Bois Brule trout fishing river, which also has coho and chinook runs in the fall. We didn’t fish as the coho run had pretty much ended 2 weeks ago. We also visited a fish hatchery there. It had a nice little info center where you could buy…
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Day 13, Bemidji, MN
We are spending a 2nd day in Bemidji. We went to the nearby state park where some tamarack trees had turned yellow. Like other larch trees they will lose their needles over the winter At peaceful Big Bog Lake I saw a large otter swimming across the lake and 3 noisy kingfishers. As we finished…
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Day 12, Arcola, SK to Bemidji, MN
We saw a bull moose trotting through a field in Canada this morning. I wonder if that will be our last moose sighting for the next 6 months…. We also saw 3 whitetail deer this evening and will be seeing a lot more of those! Long drive today, leaving at 9 am, arriving 10 hours…
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Day 11, N Battleford to Arcola, SK
All Saskatchewan today as we traveled southeast. Tomorrow we plan to go through a tiny corner of Manitoba before crossing into North Dakota. Our brief fun stop for the day was Condie Nature Refuge where we saw 5 mule deer and some cool birds. We saw a lot of geese in fields and ponds along…
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Day 10, Whitecourt, AB to North Battleford, SK
Today we C saw a moose before we even reached the fenced Elk Island National Park. At the north gate of the park we saw a coyote before reaching the entrance station. I took a short hike at Astotin Lake, where I saw a swimming beaver, a feeding pelican, and other waterfowl that I wished…
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Day 9, Pink Mountain, BC to Whitecourt, AB
As we traveled today we moved from relatively remote back to full blown development. Back to the land of traffic, cell service, fast food and subdivisions. I find it jarring and am sad we no longer have the chance to see a caribou. Still, there were other things to enjoy… Our travel plan is to…
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Day 8, Toad River to Pink Mountain
I woke up to a family of Trumpeter Swans 50 yards from our cabin at Toad River Lodge. So awesome! I watched them a long time while C slept in. The white parents and 3 grey cygnets fed together. The parents did a lot of the churning work while the cygnets and some opportunistic ducks…
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Day 7, Wolverine!
Today we drove Johnson’s Crossing, YT to Toad River, BC. The highlight was the wolverine about 5 miles north of Liard River Hot Springs. He was cooperative letting C take several great photos before he ran into the woods. We started and ended the day with Trumpeter Swans. We also saw over 100 Wood Bison, …
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Day 6, Beaver Creek to Johnsons Crossing, YT
So much wildlife near the Alcan Highway today! We saw a grizzly bear, 29 dall sheep, a coyote, several pairs of swans, and lots of grouse. In the evening I walked down to the Teslin River where I saw 3 swimming muskrats and at least 70 swans! It was dusk and the largest group of…
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Day 5, Valdez to Beaver Creek, YT
We were on the Alcan Highway by mid-afternoon and are in Canada tonight. We drove in sun, snow, rain and clouds. The snow wasn’t sticking, so road conditions were much better than our March trip to Alaska. We saw a lot of swans. The white adults were always in pairs with 2 per pond. The…
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