Yellowknife, Canada Travel Blogs

Survivor: Great Slave Lake
Sep 20, 2005 (42 photos)

... 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, and ...

Yellowknife to NWT Border
Aug 24, 2005

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.
Oct 23, 2009 (3 photos)

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 not ...

The Plan....
Dec 3, 2005

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.....
Dec 20, 2005

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 ...

Yellowknife, NWT
Feb 22, 2008

Yellowknife, NWT

Yellowknife - Prince of Wales Northern Heritage Ct
Aug 6, 2007 (22 photos)

... .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 the ...

Back in Yellowknife - HOME!
Sep 5, 2005

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

Yellowknife - The Old Town - Day 5
Jun 25, 2007 (41 photos)

...   Yellowknife - Frame Lake   Yellowknife - The Legislative Assembly   Yellowknife - the Prince of Wales Museum   Yellowknife - Golf Course and Airport                   & ...

Back in Yellowknife...with a Bang!
Mar 3, 2007

Back in YK.

Yellowknife - The Legislative Assembly
Aug 4, 2007 (30 photos)

... , elegant building clad with a zinc exterior is located in a pristine natural setting within a short walk of downtown Yellowknife.   Black spruce trees are practically caressing its sides and water from Frame Lake is virtually lapping at its feet ...

Fort Simpson to Yellowknife - Day 4
Jun 24, 2007 (61 photos)

... , 230 km by Ice road or aircraft north of Yellowknife.  He worked there for a diamond mine, a major industry in the Yellowknife region.   When I commented on how that would be an expensive life style, he noted that high salaries in the diamond ...

Planning
Aug 10, 2006

Every day now requires some trip arrangements (Visa photos, mail arrangements).

Got my Rolling Stones tickets
Aug 31, 2006

... 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 know ...

Home AT LAST!!
Jan 16, 2006

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 had ...

Yellowknife - The New Town - Day 5
Jun 25, 2007 (41 photos)

... conversation. The tourist office has a well-prepared, detailed pamphlet entitled: New Town - Heritage Walking Tour of Yellowknife. Unfortunately, despite appearances, I am not much for detail so I did not take the time to do this walk. ...

Yellowknife - Frame Lake - Day 5
Jun 25, 2007 (53 photos)

... into another midnight sun drive - this time to Fort Providence. Yet To Come:   Yellowknife - The Legislative Assembly   Yellowknife - the Prince of Wales Museum   Yellowknife - Golf Course and Airport      

Ending my trip with a Bang!!
Apr 8, 2007 (93 photos)

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 ...

Frigid in Yellowknife - a final entry .....
Dec 20, 2007 (5 photos)

... nbsp; I met marvellous people, both locals and other tourists (you know who you are!) I arrived back in Canada in mid August  - and to Yellowknife, where I work for the Government of the Northwest Territories,  at work Oct. 1.    ...

Arrived back in Yellowknife
Oct 6, 2007

... time.  And a big thank you as well to the friends and relatives I visited on my long route back to Yellowknife, which included Vancouver, Ladysmith, Nanoose Bay, Calgary, Lethbridge,  the Qu'Appelle Valley, the farm near Whitewood, Yorkton, ...

Today is the first day of my year off
Sep 21, 2006

Today is the first official day of my leave. Returned last night from a 3 day trade show and conference "Start Your Engines" in Hay River so that is how I finished my last day of work. Booked a flight online from Berlin to Tallinn, Estonia, which is only ...

cold in Canada
Feb 14, 2007

... of uranium that no one has ever seen before. news release http://www.stockhouse.com/news/news.asp?newsid=4846059&tick=FSY i left Yellowknife in my car on the 3rd of February. it was -36 C and road conditions were very poor so i drove at a ...

Beach day!
Aug 9, 2008

Today was beach day. We went swimming for a bit in the gross muddy, sandy moss. There was barely any shade anywhere, so we sat under a small gazebo, watching people play in a volleyball tournament. I chatted with a reporter who was there to cover it while ...

Waterfalls #2, the dump and Arctic char sushi
Aug 12, 2008 (7 photos)

... that you might need, like large appliances, tires, miscellaneous junk. Apparently, it costs too much to move your stuff out of Yellowknife once you get it here, so there's lots of good stuff in the dump. I personally, didn't see anything too palatable. ...

The end of the road and the crazy cabin murderer
Aug 11, 2008 (8 photos)

... a nice blue one, and a lady named Lorreen or Lorraine came to pick us up. She was a heavy metal rockin' chick, who moved to Yellowknife a few years ago. She said she would never go back. OK OK OK, Keith has insurance and I don't, so he drove. We went and ...

Good Bye Yellowknife
Nov 8, 2005

Left Yellowknife in the morning... after freeze up... good thing we didn't stay at the house...

Lightning storm and no beer on Sunday
Aug 10, 2008 (11 photos)

We were getting tired and lazy, so we took a cab downtown. We hadn't been to the Pilot's Monument or the Wildcat Cafe yet, so we walked down there again. We climbed up the big rock dedicated to all the bush pilots who opened up the North to development. ...

Bullock's Bistro and a play at the musem
Aug 8, 2008 (15 photos)

It was unbelievably hot in Yellowknife, NWT this morning. I woke up to the sound of a little animal rustling around in some plastic bags. No way! A squirrel was eating the trail mix I had so carefully prepared before leaving. An entire bag of chocolate, ...

On My Way
Aug 22, 2008 (2 photos)

... and was not disappointed.  I read a copy of Up North and recalled how much I really liked that magazine. Coming into Yellowknife you could see the changing landscape and I got a great view of Great Slave Lake.  I've always wanted to see ...

THE GIANT EGGROLL
Aug 7, 2008 (5 photos)

... so we had to take a cab all the way to the airport, 30 km outside of town. We missed the shuttlebus *pout* We got to Yellowknife and it was boiling hot. I had told my Couchsurfing friend Phil the wrong arrival time, so he wasn't there waiting for us. We ...