A Yukon commute
I was working at the cruise office in Whitehorse yesterday and during my 15-minute commute back to Mary Lake got a bit distracted by some photo ops. That made me think about the difference between a Whitehorse commute and what it’s like in some other places.
In the Fall of 2000 while Cathy was preparing to move from Ontario to Whitehorse I spent a lot of time on traffic cams that showed the route of her commute – the image below is the current view of one of them.
It was a rainbow that first distracted me yesterday – I pulled over to the shoulder of Robert Service Way and took this shot of the Yukon River from my seat. Not the best rainbow I’ve ever seen but any rainbow is a good one 🙂
I doubled back a block to the SS Klondike with a specific shot in mind. Although the rainbow was fading and the tree looks better in its Fall colours, this is what I got there.
Now in “photo mode”, I figured that with big game hunting season in full swing there would be some float plane action on Lake Schwatka, so made that small detour. The timing was perfect to get this beautiful 1954 DHC-2 Beaver taking off.
Half of Alpine Aviation’s planes were gone and another one was being loaded with a lot of gear of the hunter sort.
This isn’t a great year for colours but there are some notable exceptions. It seems to me that the best colours occur when we have a warm spell (an “Indian Summer”) and then an abrupt, deep cold. The very gradual drop in temperatures that we’re seeing this Fall just doesn’t prompt the dramatic colours in most of the trees.
I know that some of my readers have wonderful commutes as well – Carol in Tennessee in particular has sent me several photos of hers over the years. I hope that you have a good one 🙂
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