With our luggage packed (including fatty bumba, our pet mouse) Jon and I drove from Tamworth, Ontario to Edmonton, Alberta where the new adventure begins!
We took highway 17 through Ontario, we had anticipated see lots of wildlife on the way so we had the binoculars at the ready. After hours of only seeing crows and jays we had a coyote cross the road ahead of us. We were about to give up hope of seeing anything interesting on our first day when we came across two moose! We turned around to take pictures but these moose had played this game before and where already disappearing into the trees.
Many, many trees later we arrived in Wawa. We found a nice motel with log cabins and temperamental wireless internet . But despite the luxuries it still felt as though we had just rocked up in Churchill or some other polar bear paradise. The nearest town to Wawa was over 2 hours away and it was around 10pm when we found ourselves hauling luggage from the car in the icey cold wind and snow.
We drove past Lake Superior just as the sun was setting.
A very frozen, Lake Superior
Our next stop was in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It was too dark for photos when we finally emerged from the trees and reached the flat plains of Manitoba. Fatty - our mouse, was unfortunately not welcome in the hotel. Had we left him in the car we would have found a very small mouse-icle the next morning so we emptied out a biscuit tin (thanks grandma) and smuggled fatty into the room where he spent the night in the bath tub playing on his wheel.
On the third day we crossed over into Saskatchewan and we stayed over in Saskatoon. There were fields of snow as far as the eye could see with a few farms and grain silos.
2,180 miles ish and 4 days later we had made it to Edmonton where I started training for the Ferruginous Hawk study field work.
Jon and fatty arrived in Vancouver 10 hours later. They saw huge herds of bighorn sheep as they passed over the Rockies and a few bald eagles.
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