No More Rain Please
Ken checks out the eaglets that we visited a month earlier near Whitehorse, they are now standing, stretching their wings and getting ready to fly.
Ken and I stand at the top of Monarch Mt. overlooking Atlin, it is chilly at the top.
Ken hauls the canoe over one of the beaver dams on our trip on Snafu Lake.
Ken catches a northern pike. They put up a good fight, which is a lot to fun but boy he hates trying too fillet them, no matter how good they taste!
I have to put in at least one flower picture, this one is some sort of water lily.
One of the old timers on the South Canol road.
We actually had a week of good weather! We took advantage of the sun and headed for Atlin but not before checking on the eaglets at Marsh Lake. Both are doing well, stretching their wings but are not flying yet. They may have a little time before winter sets.
The week around Atlin was spent fishing, exploring the back roads on the KTM, and once again we hiked Monarch Mountain and once again we enjoyed the view immensely. While we were at the top enjoying our lunch we met a couple Martin and Ester, from Vancouver, who were on a hiking vacation for 3 weeks...84 and 83 respectively. They are an inspiration to both of us!
On the way up the Atlin road, on the way to the Alaska Highway junction, we stopped off at Snafu Lake, it is actually a bunch of little lakes joined together by streams or should I say separated by beaver dams. Here Ken did more fishing and caught a few Pike, the first that we kept and he filleted...OMG the fish have bones running every which way. There were some choice words to be had but when all was said and done the fish was delicious. We won't keep another one until we can find out the proper way to fillet them but we enjoyed them all the same. The Northern Pike is a feisty fish to catch. We caught one, no word of a lie, the big one 30 inches long...too big for our net! With Ken on the rod and myself on the net we fought for more than a few minutes with me throwing the fish over the canoe and finally having it get away, which left us cursing and laughing our heads off! While at Snafu we took a day to canoe through the chain of lake lifting our canoe over 6 beaver damn to take us to the biggest of the lakes with a trappers cabin on it. We saw 2 bear along the way, enjoyed a nice picnic lunch and then returned the same way we came fishing along the way. What a great day. What a great week.
Yesterday we rode the KTM up the South Canol road and returned to the camper just before the rain started, and it hasn't stopped since! The next 10 days forecast is for much of the same so we have decided to head south from Watson Lake on the Stewart Cassier in hopes of finding drier land...Keep our fingers crossed!
Once again here in Watson Lake, we seem to having some technical difficulties downloading pictures so once again we will have to wait for a later date. Until then hope for sun!
The week around Atlin was spent fishing, exploring the back roads on the KTM, and once again we hiked Monarch Mountain and once again we enjoyed the view immensely. While we were at the top enjoying our lunch we met a couple Martin and Ester, from Vancouver, who were on a hiking vacation for 3 weeks...84 and 83 respectively. They are an inspiration to both of us!
On the way up the Atlin road, on the way to the Alaska Highway junction, we stopped off at Snafu Lake, it is actually a bunch of little lakes joined together by streams or should I say separated by beaver dams. Here Ken did more fishing and caught a few Pike, the first that we kept and he filleted...OMG the fish have bones running every which way. There were some choice words to be had but when all was said and done the fish was delicious. We won't keep another one until we can find out the proper way to fillet them but we enjoyed them all the same. The Northern Pike is a feisty fish to catch. We caught one, no word of a lie, the big one 30 inches long...too big for our net! With Ken on the rod and myself on the net we fought for more than a few minutes with me throwing the fish over the canoe and finally having it get away, which left us cursing and laughing our heads off! While at Snafu we took a day to canoe through the chain of lake lifting our canoe over 6 beaver damn to take us to the biggest of the lakes with a trappers cabin on it. We saw 2 bear along the way, enjoyed a nice picnic lunch and then returned the same way we came fishing along the way. What a great day. What a great week.
Yesterday we rode the KTM up the South Canol road and returned to the camper just before the rain started, and it hasn't stopped since! The next 10 days forecast is for much of the same so we have decided to head south from Watson Lake on the Stewart Cassier in hopes of finding drier land...Keep our fingers crossed!
Once again here in Watson Lake, we seem to having some technical difficulties downloading pictures so once again we will have to wait for a later date. Until then hope for sun!
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