We spent a couple of days in The Pas, saw some beautiful lakes and nice Provincial Parks before heading to Flin Flon. While we were in Flin Flon we stayed at a city campground, saw some young First Nations hoop dancers, and toured a wild rice production plant. They grow a lot of wild rice in the many lakes in the area.
Our next stop was in Thompson where we would board a plane for a one hour flight to Churchill at 4AM the next morning. We spent three nights in Churchill and had two boat rides to view Beluga Whales and one tundra buggy ride to see Polar Bears. We saw many whales but no good viewings of bears, although one did wander in to town one morning and walked right past our hotel. We left Saturday evening on the train for a twenty hour ride back to Churchill. The train does not go fast since the tracks are built on permafrost and they have to let the grain trains go through. The day we arrived they had a major derailment and wasn’t fixed until the day we were to leave.
Back in Thompson we rested and toured the area before heading out on a two day trip to Winnipeg. In Winnipeg we visited a wonderful museum toured the downtown area and attended to their cultural festival, the largest of it’s kind in the world.
And know we are getting ready to head home, this is the first good wifi service we have had since our last blog update. We should be home by next Friday and will be back in the States by noon tomorrow; Sunday.
Hoop Dancers in Flin Flon.
Flinty; Flin Flon's mascot.
Piesew Falls.
Bear traps in Churchill.
Grain loading dock for grain heading to Europe.
Beluga Whale coming up to the boat.
More whales, they were feeding everywhere.
Tundra Buggy.
The train we rode on.
Wolf mural on the end of a 10 story building.
Wolf statues at an float plane display.
There were wolves all over town.
Ship in the museum, they hauled this ship to a
parking lot and built the museum around it.
Part of the 400 acre park and gardens.
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