Oh Crap!

I'm a little behind in my posts so I'll try to catch up.

My weekend in Hay River was lovely.  Beautiful scenery, fabulous weather, and pleasant company.  The plan was to get up bright and early on Sunday and drive back so I could participate in the Photo Scavenger Hunt that my Photography club was putting on that afternoon.

This is where the title comes in. When we went to turn onto the road heading to Fort Smith we came up to this...

Apparently  there were two places along the road where there were fires burning on both sides of the road. Clearly I was not going to make it to my photo club event.

With nothing to do and time to kill, we hit the road again; this time heading up towards Yellowknife.  We drove for 1 1/2 hours, crossed the MacKenzie River on the fairy, got gas and headed back.  I must say this was a very boring stretch of road...straight highway and trees on either side.  The fairy ride was the most excitement.

Check out the cool old truck we saw.

I must confess that I was very disappointed that I was missing my photography club outing, but after having one of these I felt so much better.  I love the claims they make on the label...now if only I had the Island breeze and Reggae music to go along with it.

Once we got back to Hay River the road was open again so we could go a merry way. Of course there were Buffalo, with cute little babies this time.

Double crap! This one took me by surprise. Only about 100km from Fort Smith we spotted this...

Then a road block where we had to wait to be escorted through the smoke.  Really I thought they made a big deal out of nothing.  I've driven through thicker fog.

It was a little disconcerting to know that forest fires were burning so close to where I'm living, and not having a body of water between the two of us.  When it comes to being stranded by a forest fire, I much prefer being on the side where there are roads leading out.