A Mountie, Canadian police, on Canada day, 1st of July, helping a young girl getting a Canadian flag tatoo on her arm. The town of Vancouver was transformed to a sea of red.

Whistler, named after the marmotts that populate the surrounding mountains and whistle, the pretty Alpine village is one of the worlds most popular ski-resorts and co-hosting the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Our first view of a glacier by Lilloet, at the end of a great drive from Vancouver over the Sea to Sky Highway.

Williamslake is known as the loghome Capital of the world and there are many companies who display and build them and some super examples along the road.

Quesnel, our first taste of history made through Gold, with manymore to come .

Firts Nation People at a traditional fishcamp along the rapids in a river. They spear for fish (Salmon) and smoke them afterwards.

Awesome yes almost an automatic cliche but the little detour to the sibblong towns of Hyder (Alaksa)/Stewart(BC) was exactly that. 

Pine beetle devistation, a little beetle is getting under the skin(bark) of the pine trees and killing them off. Scientists blame this happening on global warming and so far no effective cure has been found for it.

Biking between Hyder and Stewart on the dirt roads and crossing over the border from Canada to America and back!

At salmon Creek in Hyder, where at this time of the year the salmon come into spawn, the black bears and Eagles are there for a feed too.

Bear Glacier looming over the road on the way in and out of Hyder/Stewart. Northern summers are sunny and warm with clear skies which enhance the view on this glacier.

Watson lake world famous signpost forest which started in 1942 by a homesick US army soldier working on the Alcan highway and now counts over 60.000 signs from toursts all over the world.

S.S. Klondike a carefully restored Sternwheeler the largest one to plow the Yukon river located downtown in Whitehorse, as a memory to the goldrush times.

Whitehorse city, a capital city with character, colour and contrast where we went on a historic walking tour.

An oasis for body and soul, hotpools just outside Whitehorse with natural mineral water.

Muktuk Kennels, dogsledding as a mode of transport is still very much alive in the North. We visited a farm with 131 dogs and went for a walk and watched a presentation by Frank the owner on dogsleding and dogsled racing.

One of the many stars at Muktuk all so strong and friendly this is Mischief. 

Bears what bears!!

Road affected by permafrost (which is ground that has stayed frozen for two consecutive years or more) the tarseal warms the permafrost which in return in some area's has a detrimantal effect on the roading and surrounding landscape.

North to Alaska, we have reached the border and are crossing over from the Yukon in Canada to Alaska, in the United States of America 

A load of firewood ready to be cut up for a winters supply, we are in Tok and temperatures in the winter can come down to 60 below zero so you will need it.

The (in)famous Trans Alaska pipeline, love it or loath it this steely tube 4 ft wide and 800 miles long parralels the highway from Prudhoe Bay on the Artic ocean to Valdez Alaska's northern most ice free port.  

On the way into Valdez, in the Princess William Sound,  you have to climb over Thompson pass where we climbed onto the Worthington glacier.

Salmon have started to run and salmon fever has caught Darren, rod and liscence bought, fish caught and cleaned and eaten.

Darren's competition, the seals like salmon too and so do the bears and the eagles....

Tanker leaving the ice free harbour of Valdez with a load of crude oil.

We went for a day trip through Prince William Sound,on the boat the Lu Lu Belle and saw some awesome sights such as these horned Puffins.

.....and lots of whales.

.......and lots of pieces of ice which had calved off the Columbia glacier which flows into Prince Willam Sound.

Darren and I went for a last try for some pinkies, Pink Salmon in Valdez early morning and look who we had for a fellow fisherman.

......... and look who else was waiting for a meal of salmon, poor fish they do not stand a chancell

We left early to take the ferry from Valdez to Whittier, from where we drove to Seward where I was spending my birthday.l

Millers Landing is where Darren took me for my birthday to go sea kayaking for the day. The weather was cold and very wet but the day was a success with wildlife viewings and surrounded by very pretty nature and my man.

On our way to Homer, still on the Kenai Penninsula, we stopped in Soldotna to have a fish for Silvers (salmon)with lots of other hopefulls, no luck this time.

That brought us to the end of a fantstic month as you can see we have more pictures than any other month so far and still we have probably another 700 great shots so maybe we can have a photo "show off" one day when we are back in NZ. Or if you want to see some more pictures on a particular subject.....fishing, wildlife or........let us know we will send you some.