Thursday, June 22, 2023: Snow, elks and a grizzly Info: Where the Miette River flows into the Athabasca River, at 1062 m above sea level, lies the town of Jasper with not quite 5000 inhabitants. With more than 10,000 km2 Jasper NP is the largest national park in the Canadian Rocky Mountains and together with…
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Hello from Emerald Lake
Friday, June 16, 2023: A Green Lake and a World Heritage Site! Info: Emerald Lake is located in Yoho National Park in the province of British Columbia and is known for its turquoise green water. But the mountains that surround it also have it all. High up in what is known as the Burgess Shale,…
Hello from Banff in Alberta
Thursday, June 15, 2023: Finally in the Rocky Mountains! Info: The province of Alberta is known as Wild Rose Country. Pale pink roses grow everywhere and wrap the landscape in their fragrance. Banff is a small town in the province of Alberta and is located in the east of the Rocky Mountains about 140 km…
Hello from Drumheller
Saturday, June 10, 2023: In a land before our time! Info: The small town of Drumheller, northeast of Calgary, thrives mainly on geology, paleontology, and dinosaurs. The Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology has been one of the world’s leading institutions in the field of dinosaur research since its founding in 1985. The focus is on…
Hello from Val Marie and Grassland National Park
Thursday, June 8, 2023: Bison or not bison, that is the question! Info: Grassland National Park is located in the very south of Saskatchewan and borders the USA. It consists of two parts that are not connected. In the western part there have been bison again for several years. My opinion: I am considering just…
Hello from Regina in Saskatchewan
Monday, June 5, 2023: Received by the Queen! Info: The Queen City is the capital of Saskatchewan, but only the second largest city in the province after Saskatoon. With about 230,000 people, it looks cozy. Great importance is attached to the design of the public space. Culture and science are of great importance – which…
Hello from Winnipeg in Manitoba
Friday, June 2, 2023: Right in the middle of the continent! Info: The capital of Manitoba is also the largest city in the province with 750,000 people. The special thing about it is probably its location, because it is equidistant from the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. As early as 11,500 years ago, the…
Hello from Vermilion Bay in Ontario
Tuesday, May 30, 2023: At Eagle Lake with the best shower tent in the world! Diary: Actually I was just passing through and was looking for a campsite for one night. At Jerlin in Vermilion Bay I found what I was looking for. Although the campground – like very many, by the way – is…
Hello from Thunder Bay
Tuesday, May 30, 2023: Of sleeping giants, thunderbirds and a bear. Info: Thunder Bay is a city of just over 100,000 people, and like every city in North America, it seems to be much bigger, simply because everything is so far apart. Even with the suburbs, there are not more than 120,000 inhabitants. Thunder Bay…
Hello from Wild Goose Lake (Geraldton)
Saturday, May 27, 2023: A Lumberjack who is fed up with cherry pie. Diary: As we were leaving Kapuskasing, Annie Way was given a sticker that said kapuskasing.ca. She now wears that on the left side of her back door above the license plate. I don’t collect stickers, but Kapuskasing is just special to me….