Tuesday, January 5, 2010

N.W.T. Trip 2005 – back to the 60th parallel

The morning we were to leave Fort Smith and start the homeward stretch of our trip – the sun finally shone!

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this scene was taken just a little way out of town…

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another Buffalo or Bison…..just because…

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another look at one of those Raven nests…this one with at least a couple of youngsters in it…

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That’s either mom or dad on the ground….

and back to the Mackenzie Highway, this time headed south.

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a stop to take a look at Louise Falls….

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and an even closer look…

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and back to the 60th parallel….a little different than where we had crossed from B.C.!

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This picture shows just part of the visitors center…

Reluctant to leave the Territories just yet, we decided to spent the night at the campground that adjoins the visitor center….

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so here is our final ‘territories’ campfire (in fact I think our ‘only’ territories campfire!

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This Hermit Thrush had been running around at the edge of the campsite…

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I was interested to find this ‘white’ Wild Rose, growing along side a number of normal….

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pink Wild Rose….after all Alberta was just a few feet away and Alberta is ‘Wild Rose Country’.

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