Fort Saint John to Watson Lake

Hi All,
Welcome to our 150th post!

Here's the route covered by this post...

We left Fort Saint John on Saturday, June 10 and drove to Fort Nelson. What does it look like to drive the Alaskan Highway? Here are a few pictures.

Our first Stone Sheep sighting

It's so cool to see waterfalls all along the road

On Sunday we drove to Muncho Lake where we stayed at a BC Provincial Park right on the lake. It was gorgeous. The weather didn't cooperate but we were still able to get a few good pictures.

Yes, that really is the color of the water

The view up the lake from our campsite

The view the opposite direction

From Muncho Lake we drove to Watson Lake in the Yukon Territory. We finally got pictures of black bears. It's tougher than you might think. So far Susan has identified a dead tree, a stump, a culvert and a rock as elk, moose, bear and a deer.

Baby Bear sitting up on a rise above the highway

Momma Bear eating down next to the highway.

A herd of wild Bison along the road

They didn't seem to be bothered by the cars driving past.
Of course we were crawling by in order to get pictures.

Even the babies didn't mind

A first for both of us

At the Visitor's Center in Watson Lake there is a signpost forest. There are currently over 83,000 signs in the forest. We added another one.

It has been interesting to note sunrise and sunset times as we move north and west. In Fort Nelson sunrise was at 4:01 AM while sunset was at 10:19 PM. In Watson Lake today, sunrise is at 4:11 AM and sunset is at 10:58 PM. We have to artificially create an earlier sunset and later sunrise. Remember we're old.  We can't sleep much when the sun is up and we sure can't operate on 5 hours of sleep. At 9:00 in the evening we pull the shades down on all the windows. Around 9:30 or 10:00 we put the blackout shades up. This will only work when we're inside at that time but it's been cold and rainy the last few days so it hasn't been an issue.

That's it for now. Take care.
Brian