Yukon Bear Crazy

A bear a day… is about what you can expect to see along the roadside up here. These guys are a lot cuter and less ferocious than you might expect. Since we’re viewing them from inside our bear-proof bus, we not too worried. They seem more interested in eating flowers than us. In desperate need read more

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Icefields

One of the highlights of the park is the Icefields Parkway drive, from Lake Louise to Jasper. It is prime wildlife viewing, where we saw both black and grizzly bears, mountain goats, big horn sheep and elk. We checked nearly every box. We stopped for a hike to Peyto Lake, but the weather wasn’t cooperating. read more

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School Report 10 – Canada and the Bears

Dear children We have now entered country 15, Canada. If you have a look at a world map or the globe you will see that Canada is joined to USA and has the longest international border in the world. It…

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So are we in Alaska, or British Columbia?

As we’ve mentioned, we quite enjoyed Alaska, we didn’t want to miss our last opportunity for a visit, so we made the detour to Stewart and Hyder. Stewart is in British Columbia. Hyder is right next door and is technically in Alaska, although they do use Canadian money and run mostly on Canadian time (except […]

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Looking for bears in Alaska

I already wrote about the salmon in Alaska and that fishing them was a big deal in Alaska. And it is nt just the humans who like to fish for salmon. In several places you can go and watch bears fishing for salmon in rivers and streams. Two places are really famous for the possibility…
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