Originally I was planning on updating this blog every two weeks, but it is incredibly difficult to find time to do anything outside of work this month. Unfortunately this also means that my camera has been sitting in its case for a majority of my time here.  Even in Haines Alaska last month, I really didn’t seem to get many photographs

                The drive to Haines was absolutely stunning. The drive from Haines Junction, Yukon to Haines, Alaska was about 3 and a half hours long. The first half of the drive goes up into the mountains, past the tree line and into tundra. After crossing the border into the states, the road drops down into redwood forest and all the way down to sea level. When we got there, we wandered around town for a while and went to the Brewery (The beer in the North is amazing), and then went for dinner at a community barbeque. There was a pretty sweet live band playing, and we sat around and drank plenty of delicious local beer (the brewer was at the barbeque as well). We started off the next morning with a hike. There were tonnes of Bald Eagles and Goldeneyes all over the place:

That afternoon we were invited to a locals place for fresh fish and chips. We stayed there for dinner and left back to the Junction in the early evening.

                It has been getting a lot warmer these past few weeks. As of May 7^th most of the snow had disappeared from our squirrel grid, but we had yet another 10-15cm of snow on the 8^th. Although I’m definitely ready for spring, the fresh snow made for some really nice scenery once the clouds had cleared. 

           

Some of the birds are starting to sing, and the grouse are starting to drum. Im sure spring is just around the corner.