Category: Campgrounds

The trip began on Friday, May 29th, and we arrived home on Day 42, Thursday, July 9th. I wrote 46 posts for the blog, with a total of 1,329 photos – I had hoped to be able to tell you about the trip with about 30 posts and half...

On Tuesday, July 7th, Day 40 of our trip and the 8th day in Nova Scotia, we drove 250 km from the Hyclass Ocean Campground near Havre Boucher to the Woodhaven RV Park in Hammonds Plains, with a visit to the Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum. Our GPS had warned...

On Monday, July 6th, Day 39 of our trip and the 7th day in Nova Scotia, we drove from the Broad Cove Campground at Ingonish to the Hyclass Ocean Campground near Havre Boucher. That’s a 213-km drive, and the only stop we made was at the Middle Head hiking...

Friday, June 26th, Day 29 of our trip and the 22nd day in Newfoundland, involved a lot of walking. I started the day with 3.5 km on the Coastal Trail at Cape Bonavista, then drove south for the 5.9-km Skerwink Trail, then put in another 1.9 km wandering the...

Following our Western Brook Pond boat tour, it was only 23 km to Green Point Campground where we had a reservation. After 10 minutes on the road, though, a sign reminded us of the S.S. Ethie shipwreck at Martin’s Point, and I pulled in there. It’s a very scenic...

We landed at Fort Selkirk at 3:30 Sunday, August 17th, Day 7 of the trip. Our plan was simply to see a bit of the community, then continue on our journey down the river. The first photo shows the view downriver, to the northwest. The campground is beautiful –...

This post begins as we departed from Carmacks on Saturday morning, August 16th (Day 6 of the trip) and ends as we arrived at Fort Selkirk in the afternoon of Sunday, August 17th. I thought I was going to be able to tell this story with four posts, but...

This post covers our journey starting below Shipyard Island at about 1:00 pm on Thursday, August 14th (Day 4 of the trip), and ending as we were leaving Carmacks on the morning of Saturday, August 16th (Day 6). The first photo was taken about 10 minutes after leaving Shipyard...

This post begins on the afternoon of Day 3 – Wednesday, August 13th – as we started paddling down the Thirty Mile section of the Yukon River, from the foot of Lake Laberge north. The Thirty Mile was designated a Canadian Heritage River in 1991 for its outstanding natural,...

On Tuesday (May 27th), I drove to Carcross just to see the first train of the season, but it turned out to be a very full day. The weather was mixed sun and cloud, but I seemed to get sun almost everywhere I wanted it. This view of Montana...