There was a beaver dam in the river behind our campsite. The pictures I took of the beavers didn't come out very well so here is their home and the view from the back window of the camper on the Toad River.
We had not gotten very far up the road when we saw this pretty little female Stone Sheep. After she moved off to the side we continued on our way to the Liard Hot Springs. It looks like a goat to me.
It was a 1/4 mile walk on a boardwalk to get there but we were rewarded with nice warm water in beautiful surroundings. The only thing better would have been to see a Moose in the surrounding marshes along the path to the Springs
Leaving the Springs we continued North towards Watson Lake and came across this herd of grazing wild Bison.
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| My favorite pic of the day |
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| We called this guy "Mr Big" |
A stop at a whirlpool for a geocache
Alan's lookout. The story is that robbers watched for boats in the river here and then went down the banks to rob them. Pretty stop but it seemed a long way to get to the river from up here. The picture doesn't look like it but we were way above the river's edge.
Our final stop for the day before the campground Watson Lake Sign Post Forest. "The Signpost Forest was started in 1942 by a homesick U.S. Army G.I. working on the Alaska Highway, who put up a sign with the name of his home town and the distance. Others followed suit and the tradition continues to this day. As of August 2010 there are more than 76,000 signs of various types depicting locations across the world."
We added our Vermont Bicentennial Plate to the collection and were surprised to see several other Vermont Plates already there.
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| Our contribution |
The wildlife count for the day was 1 Stone Sheep, a herd of Bison and 7 black bear (no pics)
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