Below, 3 of the good-sized fish that Dick caught on a guided float-boat, flyfishing trip down a stretch of the Yellowstone River on Monday July 16.  First is a  20 inch Brown Trout.  Next, a 21 inch Brownie (note the rod and reel that Evergreen employees gave Dick upon his retirement).  Finally, a 15 inch Cutbow (a naturally occurring hybrid between a Cutthroat a Rainbow Trout).  In the background of the third photo, Jerry and Don can be seen (mostly fishless) in a separate boat.  We ate a smaller Brownie and the Cutbow for dinner on Tuesday July 17.

At the Calgary Stampede we saw, among other things, barrel racing, bull riding and chuckwagon races.  That was about all that we wanted to see and the rest was just a mass of humanity gawking at a huge carnival.

 Below, the international border where we crossed back into the good olf US of A above Great Falls, Montana.

We saw, literally, hundreds of thousands of acres of bright yellow rape in southern Yukon, much of British Columbia and most of Alberta.

 Below, the RCMP entrance into the 100th anniversary Calgary Stampede.

Below are 3 photos of wildlife on the road between Teslin and White River, Yukon Territory.  This was our best day of wildlife viewing by far as this is just a small percentage of what we saw that day.

Wildlife and wild life along the road from Fairbanks to Tok, AK. on July 6.

(It is 11:47 PM on Tuesday July 17 and I just went outside to look at the stars ['til now it has been mostly impossible to do so as it has been light all night].  As Jerry promised months ago, the edge of the Milky Way is visible as a light-colored cloud and thousands of stars are lighting the new-moon sky.  I hummed a verse of "How Great Thou Art" in honor of "...all the worlds God's hands hath made.")

Well.  After about 2 weeks of poor-to-none wifi, we are back on line as I write this, on Tuesday July 17.  Jerry returned to us in Fairbanks on Tuesday July 3 and we relaxed on July 4 with a round of golf at a Fairbanks nine-holer.  That night we had dinner with Karen and Skip Binkley, owners of the aforementioned Riverboat Discovery.  On the 5th, we took an all day bus ride up to the Arctic Circle, stopping at various places, among which was the Alyeska Pipeline as you can see below.

Shown here is Riverboat Discovery Captain, Madi Binkley, a fifth-generation riverboat captain, who is now an old friend of Don's and mine. She is 19 years old, the youngest female ever to hold a license to captain ships in the US up to 100 tons.
We met her as a result of my friend, Early Piety's friendship with her father, Skip Binkley, owner of the company that owns and operates the Riverboat Discovery on the Chena and Tanana rivers in Fairbanks Alaska. When Early learned that we were visiting Fairbanks, he told us that the 3-hour cruise aboard the Discovery was a "must see" in the area and he was absolutely right. Early called Skip and asked him to watch out for us when we arrived and he did so in style. When we checked in, we were not allowed to pay our fare, we were given "Family/Comp" boarding passes and greeted at the gangplank by Madi. As the cruise was returning upstream after several stops, Madi fetched us from our seats and led to the wheelhouse (thus, we were the envy of the entire complement of 250 passengers) where we spent the upriver portion chatting with her and Captain Ted and the announcer for the day, her Uncle J.R. Check them out at www.riverboatdiscovery.comSee More