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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 14, 2022 15:52:00 GMT
Got back from our week-long fishing trip on Saturday night. A good time was had by all. Here are a few photos from the trip. Will make three posts. One of our walk-and-wade trips was interrupted by thee bears.  A young friend (right) and I on the lodge dock. He had never been "up North" before.  Taking a float plane out of Yellowknife 
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 14, 2022 15:56:38 GMT
Part 2 We took a complicated boat ride to "the Falls" to catch grayling. 
De Haviland Beaver bush plane ... real work horses of the northern skies. 
At "The Barrel" 
Dave (with fish on) had never fished in the north before. Norm (left) has fished all over the world. HA HA. On this evening, Dave landed 10 nice lake trout and Norm none. Too funny  The dock and boats 
Never seen so many dragonflies  |
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 14, 2022 16:01:07 GMT
Part 3 Eastern phoebe  Much of the North is Precambrian rock and water  At the falls ... see two anglers in lower left and right. Composite photo taken with a telephoto lens. Pretty place. A huge fire swept through the region in 2014 (?) .. the left was burned but not the right side. 
Flying up close and personal with the pilot 
Unloading and reloading at the dock. This is a Cessna 185 with a Beaver behind. 
Great sunsets. Sunset last week was at 11:20 PM.  |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 14, 2022 16:15:15 GMT
One of our walk-and-wade trips was interrupted by three bears.
THE three bears ? |
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Post by hmca on Jun 14, 2022 17:30:59 GMT
Thanks for giving us a glimpse of your time away, Clive. Was hoping that you would share some pictures. You chose a nice overview.
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Post by Lillias on Jun 14, 2022 17:52:50 GMT
Wonderful photos Clive. Looks like you had a great time.
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Post by blackmutt on Jun 15, 2022 1:01:00 GMT
Lovely Clive!!
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 15, 2022 1:16:02 GMT
Thanks all. Was a fun trip and I feel privileged to have been the the far North a few times. This was likely my last trip up there. HA HA! Well at first we saw two younger bears and presumably their mom who was seen ambling over a hill. The young ones were about two years old and probably hanging close to mom although she will try to shoo them away. The bear I posted was the likely male who showed up 2 hours later. The mom and two cubs were a concern. The male showed up as we were just leaving the area. |
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Post by jackscrap on Jun 15, 2022 2:30:00 GMT
What a wonderful adventure you've had, and thankfully still had time to take photos in between catching fish!
The lake and surrounds looks lovely and pristine, except for the fire damaged area which I guess will eventually get back to what it was like before.
Those seaplanes look like a lot of fun, are they steady enough to take good photos?
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 15, 2022 3:01:01 GMT
Thanks Jacki. Those seaplanes look like a lot of fun, are they steady enough to take good photos? Yes, sort of. It was bumpy flying back to Yellowknife. I was in the front seat with the pilot and all of our main bags were on board as well. I took a few photos with my cell phone.  except for the fire damaged area which I guess will eventually get back to what it was like before. Fire is the natural way of these short-live forests. One of the big mistakes in North America conifer forest management is fire suppression. That is, fires are put out (to save lives and property) and yet over time the forests become tinder boxes laden with dried fuel from dead trees. Most of these conifers such as pine, spruce and for only live 80 to 120 years as they age from diseases and insects ... all natural happenings. The fuel load just builds and builds and this is why many fires in West Canada have become larger (although fewer). Just too much fuel that has built up because fires are suppressed. Conifer species have evolved so that their seed cones pop open when exposed to moderate fires. |
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Post by BuckSkin on Jun 15, 2022 9:59:56 GMT
Great pictures and it looks like a most exciting adventure --- it looks like a lot of work as well; but then, on such a safari, of course you had plenty of porters, bearers, and servants to see after all that mundane stuff.
I would have got busy taking pictures and left my pole leaning against a tree.One of the big mistakes in North America conifer forest management is fire suppression.
Back in the 60s, 70s, and into the 1980s, the USA-C of E would frequently burn off large tracts; trees, grass, brush, briers, and all.
For whatever reason, these burns would often coincide with "gun deer season" and really mess up one's deer hunting plans; you even had to be very careful where you left your truck as it might be in the path of a fire.
The area where I live is between two big man-made lakes, not THE Land Between the Lakes, but between two lakes none-the-less.
The US Army Corps of Engineers own everything for miles around these lakes and way up their tributaries; so, in the fall of the year, we got to breath a lot of heavy wood smoke and everything was always covered in soot and cinders.
What the government didn't burn, the farmers did; instead of bush-hogging and spraying, farmers would "burn off" their fields.
Most farmers being farmers, there were many an exciting event as a result of these burn-offs; neighbors barns, corn-cribs, houses, and haystacks often became victims when their liquored-up neighbor set a field afire (most farming tasks are such an expensive iffy gamble that the more faint at heart have to be three sheets in the wind to have the nerve to begin)
On another note, I have often wondered how, in such an isolated land-locked uneducated untraveled backward, definitely un-nautical area, that the term "three sheets in the wind" was the most often chosen to describe someone who was getting pretty well oiled up and well along the way to being staggering drunk.
I bet most housewives who described their men as being "three sheets in the wind" thought it had something to do with clotheslines and bed-sheets on a windy day.
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Post by WayneS on Jun 16, 2022 1:23:43 GMT
Were you fortunate enough to see any light shows from the Aurora Borealis? Mind you, that far North they are pretty late at night, so if you had early fishing times, you might have slept through them!
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Post by pontiac1940 on Jun 16, 2022 2:09:21 GMT
Were you fortunate enough to see any light shows from the Aurora Borealis? Mind you, that far North they are pretty late at night, so if you had early fishing times, you might have slept through them! Wayne, aurora are not possible to see at this time of year as it never gets dark. Today, at Yellowknife, the sun sets at 11:35 PM and rises at 3:40 AM. Max "darkness" is at ~1 AM and you could read a book outside at 1 AM with no lights. The main viewing period is from September through March although they are presumably viewable in August through April. I've thought of going back to the lodge in late September when you could fish and see northern lights, but the float plane for (say) my wife and I would be too expensive...$1,400 round trip in the Cessna 185. All in, a three-night trip to the lodge would cost my wife and I would be close to $4,000. If I go again, I'll just stay in Yellowknife. (The other issue with the lodge in fall is predators. There is a somewhat aggressive bear around the lodge and quite a few wolves. I'd not fancy standing alone in the dark in such a remote place.) We went to Yellowknife in October 2018 to photograph aurora and were fortunate to have great displays in two of four nights. We stayed right in Yellowknife and rented an SUV to get around.  |
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Post by WayneS on Jun 16, 2022 2:35:17 GMT
I have great memories of seeing the Northern lights in my younger days, travelling Northern Manitoba on business, to places like Churchill, Lynn Lake, Thompson etc. they were just so intriguing! Unfortunately, never took any pictures of them!
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