Category: Nature
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Whitehorse, Yukon
It was time for the big “push” North, we left Boya lake early as we had a long drive ahead…..Satnav time +2hrs; we always have to add extra time to our Satnav prediction, Delta isn’t always as fast moving and we have to stop regularly. After about an hour’s drive, through forest destroyed by previous…
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Dease Lake and Boya Lake
After leaving Stewart we headed back out on highway 37a and rejoined highway 37 heading North. Passing through varied and beautiful scenery and several thunderstorms until we reached our campsite at Dease Lake. We arrived just before sunset and we were greeted with stunning views across the lake. It was just a short one night…
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Stewart
From Witset we headed North again up Highway 16 until we reached Kitwanga and took Highway 37. We visited Battle hill on the way and the famous Totem poles in Kitwanga before taking a lunch break at Meziadin Provincial Park. At Meziadin Junction we then took the spectacular and bumpy Highway 37a to Stewart, the…
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Bowron Lake & Barkerville
Continuing heading North up highway 97 we passed by the famous Gold Rush towns of 70 Mile House, 100 Mile House and 150 Mile House where the waggons would stop and refresh and the impressive Cariboo Mountains. We branched off onto a smaller route towards Bowron Provincial Park, and after some beautiful lake scenery we…
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Strathcona provincial park
Now it was time to really test our metal and have three nights off grid in Strathcona provincial park in the centre of Vancouver Island. After a long and tiring windy bumpy drive into the park we were rewarded with a beautiful pitch deep in the forest. Once set up, which takes us about an…
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Vancouver
Whilst waiting for our Motorhome deal to go through we had 11 glorious days in Vancouver city. The weather was perfect, warm and dry (sometimes a little on the windy side) and having plenty of time on our hands we explored the beautiful city mostly on foot, we walked a lot! We spent a lot…
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What is ‘Slothsitting’?
During our time at The Rescue Center, we focused mostly on working with the Sloths. As we mentioned in the previous Sloth posts, this work also included Slothsitting – and this was the most rewarding, entertaining and certainly our favourite part of the whole Costa Rica trip. The baby sloths (living in their small enclosures…
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More Sloths…
On our first morning shift on the sloth team our alarm went off at 5:30AM (although not strictly needed as we are woken each morning as dawn breaks at around 5AM and from 4:30AM all the nature around is waking up, especially the parrots!). After finishing at 10PM the night before, we made our way…
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Let’s Talk About Sloths
After our short but enjoyable stint on the Animal Team we were able to join the Sloth Team. This was Elizabeth’s main reason for choosing this rescue centre as they have a sloth team dedicated to the rehabilitation of sloths, in particular baby sloths, and releasing them back into the wild as soon as possible.…
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Animal Team – Zones 3 & 4
The morning of day two we’d been assigned to the Animal Team; Elizabeth to Zone 3 and Warwick to Zone 4. Work starts at 07:00 as the animals always come first! We met in the Animal Kitchen and began breakfast prep for our zones, this again involved a lot of chopping of fresh fruit and…
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