November Comes Early
Trip Start
Apr 10, 2005
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Trip End
Dec 20, 2005
Yelowknife,
Northwest Territories,
Canada
Sunday, September 18, 2005
It was quite sad to say goodbye to the mountains, we had spent the entire summer in their midst and what a feeling of emptiness when you look up and they're not there anymore. Mind you, the prairies has its own charm, especially now that's it Autumn, the stunning fall colours of the trees and the endless rows of haystacks made a drastic, yet beautiful change of scenery.
Yellowknife and the part of the Northwest Territories that we've seen have a more subtle beauty than Alaska or the Yukon. Much of the land sits on the rocky Canadian Shield, with some smallish aspen, black spruce, jack pine and tamarack. We have been treated to some outstanding hospitality from my friend Chuck (we went to McMaster together) and his fiancee Karen
01 Yellowknife is built on a rock
. Being indoors is certainly a treat!! No more cold feet or cold heads while in our sleeping bags. No more pressure numbness from sleeping on a camping mat. No more wet tents! Hooray!Being amongst Chuck & Karen's friends was one of the more memorable aspects of our travels. Everyone was so welcoming, so easygoing, and we realized that even though they are all so far north and away from their own families and friends, it really isn't that bad when you have such loving people around you. It's an understatement, but Yellowknife is a very tight community. It really made us homesick.
Aside from all the lovely people we've met, we took the opportunity to see the landscape on foot, by motorboat, by canoe and yes, by air too!! Yellowknife is surrounded by a network of rivers and lakes, so not surprisingly, fishing and hunting is a popular pastime. We did partake in the former, with Traicee catching 2 Pikes, very exciting for us city folk!
