Saturday, September 5, 2009

FUNGI HARVESTING

CONTINUATION OF OUR SERIES -WILDFOOD PROCESSING AKA FREE-TUCKER.PART 1 COLLECT MANY POPLAR TRICHS HAVING ESTABLIHED THERE EDIBILTY BY CONSULTING MUSHROOM GUIDEBOOK.
PART 2 SLICE AND DRY ON CONVENIENTLY SITED DRYING RACK THIS ALSO DRIVES OUT UNWANTED MAGGOTS AND RENDERS THEM HARMLESS.

PART 3 FINAL PRODUCT READY FOR STORAGE AND SUBSEQUENT REHYDYDRATION-SUPERB!!PEPERATION TIME 3 DAYS.


MORE ANIMULES-DEAD

START OF HUNTING SEASON AT CHICKEN (MEANT TO BE CALLED PTARMIGAN AFTER THE GAME BIRD ALASKA'S SYMBOL-BUT THE FOUNDING FATHER'S COULDN;T SPELL IT).THIS PLACE IS ACCESSED BT THE ROUGH TOP OF THE WORLD HIGHWAY NEAR THE US MOST REMOTE BORDER POST.
THE CARNAGE WAS AKIN TO THE WESTERN FRONT IN WW1. HUNDREDS OF HUNTERS ON QUAD BIKES AND CAMOUFLAGE GEAR PURSUING MIGRATING CARBOU AND EVRYTHING ELSE ALSO IT SEEMED.




THIS IS NOT A DIRTY GRILL. IT IS A ROAD KILL DINNER PLATE. SO FAR ENJOYED BY A BLACK BEAR,NUMEROUS BIG-HORN SHEEP AND COUNTLESS RAVENS WHEN WE PARK UP AT NIGHT.



MORE ANIMULES-ALIVE

LESSER CHIPMUNK-MANY SPECIES OF SUIRRELS AND CHIPMUNKS.
TOOK A WHILE FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PHOTO A MOOSE HAD SEEN PLENTY .


WOODLAND FROG-WE LET IT GO!!

PLAINS BISON-UNBELIEVABLE THAT 60 MILLION WERE REDUCED TO 1000 BY 1900.



WOODLANDS BISON




ALBERTA PRAIRIES

OILWELLS,GAS LINES,OLD COALTOWNS DOT AND CRISS-CROSS THE MILES OF TREELESS PRAIRIE OF RIPENING GRAIN AND CANOLA. MOST STOCK IS IN HUGE FENCED FEEDLOTS ALTHOUGH GRAZING OCCURS IS THE ROUGH FESCUE GRASSLANDS OF COWBOY FAME.WIND TURBINES THE NEW PLAYER ON THE BLOSK ESPECIALLY IN THE WIND DOMINATED SOUTH.
TOWNS AND CITIES STARTED AS FUR TRADING POSTS OR RCMP FORTS TO DRIVE OUT THE WHIKEYS PEDDLARS FROM THE US. THIS IS FORT MACLEOD WHERE SCENES FROM BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN WERE SHOT.

THE LUCKY ONES NOT IN FEEDLOTS.






ROYAL TYRELL MUSEUM THE DINOSAUR CENTRE OF THE WORLD. MR T. REX.




THE BADLANDS WHOSE CRETACEOUS SANDSTONE HARBOURS A POT POURRI OF DINOSAUR FOSSILS. NEW SPECIES DISCOVERED ANNUALLY.MUSEUM AND LABORATIES STATE OF THE ART.












CANADIAN ROCKIES

SPECTACULAR AND BREATHTAKING SCENERY. GRAND FOLDED MOUNTAINS,ACCESSIBLE GLACIERS,EASY-DIFFICULT TRAILS,TOURIST HOTSPOTS AND SERENITY,AMAZING TURQUOISE LAKES AND AWESOME SUNRISES AND SUNSETS. ANGEL GLACIER.
ATHABASCA GLACIER-DIDN'T TAKE THE SPECIAL BUSES THAT DRIVE ON TO IT!!

HECTOR LAKE

















LAKE LOUISE THE MOST FAMOUS.TOOK A LOT OF SKILL TO AVOID THE PLAGUES OF VISITORS.







PEYTO LAKE -HAD THIS TO OURSELVES EARLY IN THE MORNING-THEN THE BUSES ARRIVED!!

























SMOW DOME
























ATOP WHISTLER MOUNT (WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM A CABLE CAR THEN A STEEP CLIMB TO THE SUMMIT)










CANADIAN ROCKIES AND PRAIRIES

I HAVE HAD A LONG FASCINATION AND INTEREST IN THE KLONDIKE GOLDRUSH OF 1898. IT HAS BEEN FANTASTIC VISITING THE SIGHTS,RE-READING A LOT OF THE HISTORY AND CAMPING NEAR THE HISTORIC SITES.THIS IS THE CONFLUENCE OF THE YUKON AND KLONDIKE. WE WERE CAMPED AT WHERE THIS PHOTO WAS TAKEN.DAWSON CITY IN FOREGROUND.
KLONDIKE VALEEY 96KM'S OF DREDGE TAILINGS AND ACTIVE MINES.

WHEN THE RUSH WAS OVER MOST UP STAKES AND DOWN THE YUKON TO NOME ON THE BERING SEA.