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Yellowknife Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Yellowknife, Canada
Aurora and Ice
Aurora: Vibrant rivers of green light have been running through the night sky recently. Due to a solar storm, the aurora have been amazingly bright and beautiful - we are both almost dumbfounded by the view. Even when we have stood ...
"Iceolation" Art Exhibit in the Snow Castle
The snow castle was just amazing! Ice windows, ice steps, ice counters, candle holders, and vases. Snow walls, snow sculptures, snow towers, slides, and gargoyles. Amazing!! When we were there we saw the actual creator, the Snow King, in his ...
Yellowknife to NWT Border
Wednesday August 24, 2005 We left Yellowknife right after work....well, almost....first Subway, then we left. The drive was uneventful for the most part. GAWD I love my Sirius satellite radio...sure makes the 600km+ of zero radio stations a lot more ...
Decongestant-check; gravol-check; earplugs-check.
Day one begins in typical Guigon fashion with fog. Lots and lots of fog. For Yellowknife at the end of October this is incredibly unusual. So is the temperature in general: +3! By Noon the fog had not lifted and we began to worry that our flight would ...
The Plan....
Ok, so here is the first update....a complete list/itinerary for our trip... Dec 31/05 -- Depart Edmonton at some GAWD awful hour in the morning, arrive in Cozumel at 3:10pm....just in time to check into the hotel and to find some place cool to spend ...
The tickets are booked.....
YAH BABY!! So we have started booking some of the activities and trips that we wanted to do and I decided it would be cool to show you all what we will be up to...... so here is the list of links so far.... January 5, 2006 @ 10am: Feed the ...
Frozen Song
Legend goes that songs freeze in the winter air and make a beautiful sound again when they thaw in the spring... This is a time when all the darkness that has been creeping later and later into the mornings and earlier into the afternoons, and ...
the light of night and darkness of day
Nighttime is coming back.... But I actually kind of missed the night during these past summer months. Although the eternal golden evening light was bliss in June.... With this weird fall weather, we've actually had some cloudy ...
Forrest Fire
... also quite a few days that were very smoky and hazy in the capital city. The weather channel reported "Local Smoke", also the name of a Yellowknife band.... Picutres below catalogue the scene as we approach closer and closer to the ...
Crazy May: Spring Fever
I think everyone's ready at this point to say goodbye to winter. The sun is out bright in the day and late at night now so we've been pretty much living outdoors. We had a bonfire and did a bit of 'suntanning', and went 'swimming' as well (which ...
New Years Eve in Yellowknife
A little different from our New Years in Gjoa Haven last year... we're just back from Playa del Carmen and we're ready to ring in 2012!! During the day we took our first drive on the Dettah Ice Road - it just opened - after watching the ...
Summer Solstice and National Aboriginal Day
... some caribou stew and bannock. The sun was so hot that we broke a record for all time high on this day in Yellowknife. That evening we sat on our balcony, enjoying the cooling breeze and a dram of Blue Label. We sat reading until well after ...
Back in Yellowknife - HOME!
Monday September 5, 2005 Well, we are finally home.....and what an amazing trip!! Really it couldn't have gotten any better..... All I can say is that I can't wait for the next road trip.... Till then..... Tina & TL ...
Biking through Old Town
Took advantage of the amazing sunny warm weather today and biked around Old Town after work. FFinally saw that famous Ragged Ass Road we hear so much about on Yelowknife ...
Muskox, Frost and Snow, and the Dene People
... culture. In an effort to learn more native culture and try my had at one of the eleven official languages of Yellowknife, I have started to study South Slavey. The teacher is amazing, very inspired and motivating. It is ...
Farewell "Nunatsiaq", Beautiful Land
... , I have a certain feeling that we will be back in the near future!!! So in the meantime, please link to my next travel blog where I drive home from Yellowknife through the United States: ...
First Impressions
... quirky in conversation, we really have enjoyed meeting all kinds of people in our travels. Many have told us they came to Yellowknife for a summer, and now it's been decades and they haven't left yet! While waiting for a phone call with word that ...
All the Colours of the Northern Lights!!
The heavens were really giving us a show last night!! Colours and vivid shapes of light like we'd never seen before except in pictures. Just recently we happen to be researching colours of Aurora and found out that it is very rare to see ...
Got my Rolling Stones tickets
... weeks ago, held my breath as they were going to 'mail them' and you know what the mail system is like to Yellowknife! Anyway, a plain white envelope arrived yesterday..... the type I USUALLY chuck as it said "if undeliverable return to sender" - you ...
6500km and we're here!!
Wow! At long last, here we are at our destination!!! It's been an amazing trip, but now it's time to find out place and get settled. It's a bit of a relief in a small way because we've been looking forward to getting here for months now. Also, it sure ...
Beck's Dogsledding on Grace Lake
... at the end. At the same time, the Diavik Dog Sled Racing Derby was going on across the frozen lakes west of Yellowknife. Our driver had some interesting stories about the dogs and his father who were racing in the Derby. The perfect ...
Home AT LAST!!
Monday January 16, 2006 PHEW.....we made it, and Canada never looked so GOOD!! Our flight left Cozumel at 12:45pm on Friday January 13th, we arrived in Houston and changed our flight home since we knew we would miss the rest of our flights cause we ...
Yellowknife - The Legislative Assembly
... YOU TUBE - http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelsWithLobo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yellowknife - Northwest Territories Legislative Assembly - Day 6 Date of visit: June 26, 2007 Date of ...
Yellowknife - Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Ct
... nt.ca/ I was drawn to the Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Centre by a promise of "the best buffalo burger in Yellowknife" being served in the Heritage Cafe of the museum. At least that was the opinion of the chief of security at ...
Fort Simpson to Yellowknife - Day 4
... http://www.youtube.com/user/TravelsWithLobo --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fort Simpson to Yellowknife - Day 4 The Mackenzie Highway (gravel portion) ------------------------------------------------- ...
Ending my trip with a Bang!!
Hi everyone. Some of you will already have heard the news of my rather shocking return to the great white north. I'll let the pix speak for themselves...I feel very fortunate to be able to recount the last stretch of my trip to you. Things ...
Survivor: Great Slave Lake
... one of the summer staff members was still around doing some fishing, plus their female guests. The pilot offered to fly us to Yellowknife gratis the following day, and the lodge hosts offered us beds for the night. A large steak dinner was served up, ...