Yukon Trip 2009 - Day 35 - Last day

Woke up on the morning of June 26th, decided to walk down the trail beside the campsite, just to see what was there......
This is the North Thompson River.....

The sun was catching this Tiger Lily growing beside the trail, perfectly.....

there was also some Pink Wintergreen in flower

and back on the Yellowhead Highway heading towards Kamloops. This is the scene of the massive 'Barrier' wild fire from a few years back.....that is the Thompson River down there....

another view of the wild fire....this looking back towards the town of Barrier

through Kamloops and headed to our 'home away from home' - Tunkwa Lake for the last night of a perfect trip. I've waxed poetic about Tunkwa Lake in past entries so won't this time other than to say we didn't do any exploring this time, just set up out on the 'spit' and sat and enjoyed our last night on the road, before heading back to civilization.

for Tunkwa, it was actually pretty quiet, bird wise....there were a few American Coot.

and quite a few Lesser Scaup - this is a duck species that I find confusing. They are obviously 'paired up', yet the males are out of their brilliant breeding colors, yet I know from past years that we won't see the females with young until mid summer.....

closer view of a male in his 'non-breeding' plumage.....

and this one, just 'cause it is a sort of neat shot.....

no doubt that the males are the boss as they move these females along......

at the lakes edge there were lot's of Killdeer - 3 young ones in the above shot, along with an adult.

Some Canada Geese, and this pair of 'odd balls' that are found at Tunkwa each summer.....

there just seemed to be one lone female Barrow's Goldeneye - remember though that we were looking at just one very small part of the lake.....

We had packed the inflatable kayak with us the entire trip, and this was the first time it got wet. This American Crow seemed to find it a good perch!

Ernie got some good shots of a Savannah Sparrow while walking Shantz.....

The next day (June 27th) we packed up and headed back to reality.......

Campground fee: $15 Total distance traveled to date: would you believe I forgot to write it down?! but 8,500 km is close enough!