(Image from the Liard Springs Pvovinicial Park Staff and taken from Canadian Government website)June 12th,
The road is open, or at least a pioneer road has been
constructed and today they are letting rvs through the wash out. Word from the
ranger station is it took about fifteen hours to go past the main break, yeah
fifteen hours. It was open first for trucks but now for everyone and so a lot
have left the park. The repair is one lane only and they let the traffic go
through for an hour and then change the direction for the next hour.
We decided to wait another day and hope things get less
congested and so we relaxed with another soaking and some easy boardwalk
birding. We also met our neighbors, Bryce and Charlotte, who live in Palmer,
Alaska. He is retired and does lapidary
with black opals and she teaches elementary school. He gave us some great advice
on our settings and they both said
complimentary things about our wire wrapping.
Birding here is fun as we are in a whole new area and we
have picked up four life birds. Yesterday we saw a Mew Gull and a Boreal
Chickadee, and today we spotted a three toed woodpecker and a northern peewee.
Our bird count since we retired is at 286 and we hope to soon go over three
hundred species!
Tomorrow we are going to hit the road early and head for
Watson Lake, where we intended to spend a night and then it’s off to
Whitehorse. That will put us over the half way point on the Alaskan Highway and
still about on the timeline we had planned. Clear skies and we do mean clear
skies as we don’t want any more rain!
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