View from my window
IMG_0177_resized, a photo by rumint on Flickr.
So, yesterday we had a good day in Vancouver - the Chinese garden, seabus to the North Shore where we enjoyed a sushi lunch, and then the main art gallery. It was 28C and rather warm and sunny.
This morning we flew 2500km north to Whitehorse in the Yukon. Here's the view from our window - 2 hours of snow- capped mountains and glaciers as far as the eye could see (they're part of the Coastal Range)
Up here, north of the 60th parallel, it was -1 degree when we landed, but sunny.
Whitehorse is the capital of the Yukon territory and 2/3rds of the territories 30 000 human inhabitants live here, but it's still a small town. We first realised we were in teh wilderness when we found the whole territory has _NO_ GSM coverage at all! Not even SMS, which I'm used to everywhere. Luckily our B&B has good internet, but it's still going to be very odd driving around without phones or GPS*.
*technically our iphones and androids GPS works just fine, but without 3G or even sms to d/l local maps, we just get a position dot in the middle of a blank page, time to find a better app...