Keno Yukon
The urgency to write more blog material has faded with the extended time spent here at Keno Hill.
It is already late august and the days have become shorter now dark by 9.30pm and the need of lights at 6am in the morning.
[photo = home camp from across the valley]
In the past week the colours of the leaves have changed from the summer greens to vibrant yellow on the poplars and the reds on the berry bushes at higher elevations and are starting to cast the landscape in a different light. The summer has been unusually wet for the Yukon but rain has slowed a little, the air has grown noticeably colder and there is that sense of impending winter with the snow not far behind. 
My time here has been broken by another company sponsored "fishing trip" to Pelican Alaska, a 40 minute seaplane flight west of Juneau with three long days a lot of mist and rain on the jiords. Halibut and salmon into the freezer. I was ready for a break but I now have only a few weeks left in which to complete my field work before getting back to the computer to wrap it all up.
This is an extended trip for me as Lynne will travel to Canada at the end of September for two weeks instead of me returning home then. We will visit Aaron, Kerry, Noa and the new extensions to the family in Gananoque, as well as visiting friends in Toronto and some places of interest when the eastern Canadian forests will be wearing a pattern of brilliant fall colours.
If my work goes well before then I will try to take a few days off to visit Dawson City and the Klondike goldfield made famous in the 1890's, as these are only about two hours drive from Keno.
By October it will be cold and there will be snow on the ground and with the completion of some meetings I plan to be back at Tuapiro Landing about the end of the month.
Til next time
Cheers
Al
[photo = I have been in the hills]
My time here has been broken by another company sponsored "fishing trip" to Pelican Alaska, a 40 minute seaplane flight west of Juneau with three long days a lot of mist and rain on the jiords. Halibut and salmon into the freezer. I was ready for a break but I now have only a few weeks left in which to complete my field work before getting back to the computer to wrap it all up.
[photo = Pelican harbour]
This is an extended trip for me as Lynne will travel to Canada at the end of September for two weeks instead of me returning home then. We will visit Aaron, Kerry, Noa and the new extensions to the family in Gananoque, as well as visiting friends in Toronto and some places of interest when the eastern Canadian forests will be wearing a pattern of brilliant fall colours.
If my work goes well before then I will try to take a few days off to visit Dawson City and the Klondike goldfield made famous in the 1890's, as these are only about two hours drive from Keno.
[photo = 1 days catch 2 halibut over 100lb, 2 small halibut, 27 coho salmon, & red stuff]
By October it will be cold and there will be snow on the ground and with the completion of some meetings I plan to be back at Tuapiro Landing about the end of the month.
Til next time
Cheers
Al
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