We got up fairly early for me this morning (about 9:00) and headed off down highway three to see if we could find some bison. It's the same highway that you can take all the way south to Edmonton, when either the ice road is open, or the ferry is running, - See it in Google Earth here - neither of which is happening right now. This means that the only way to get north of the MacKenzie River right now is to fly. Anyway, we drove about 150km down the highway, and we saw lots and lots of bison poop, and a few bison signs, that would give the impression of there being lots of the animals around, but we didn't see one bison the whole trip!
We did come across a pond where the water had emptied out somehow after there were four inches of ice on top. The ice wasn't able to support itself and collapsed, splitting into huge chunks, and it all came down just as it was. Some of the pieces were left behind in trees! (See pictures below, in previous post). It was amazing, and totally worth the trip!
We stopped at a small Territorial Park to have lunch - See it in Google Earth here - it was a funny little picnic park, but according to the sign camping was permitted if one so desired. It was right on the shores of the Great Slave Lake, and there was even an ice road heading off across the lake. I have no idea where it went.
The NWT landscape is almost desert like, even at this time of year - the climat is semi arid, and it looks it. There is a lot of rock and scraggly little tufts of grass, the trees are all sort of stunted and short, but at the same time there is a beauty to the countryside of a type I have never before seen. I'll post a picture of what I'm talking about in the next pictures post.
I spent the rest of the afternoon listening to music; mostly country, which I've started listening to a bit thanks to Lara ;) I've been amazed to find that now that I've given the genre a bit of a chance, I'm actually enjoying quite a few of the songs! I would never have thought I would come to enjoy country...
In the evening we went back up to Pilot's Monument - See it in Google Earth here - to try to get some pictures of the sunset. Unfortunately there was a large bank of clouds and by the time we got up to the monument the sun had alread 'set' behind it. There are some pictures below, the colours were nice.
-- Check out the links section on the left for a Google Earth file that I'll keep updating with all the 'Places of Interest' I make note of in my posts! To open, click on the link, then on "open", it will open it right into Google Earth and take you to the spot! --
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