Another hour back tonight.
Meanwhile Forbes are in Ireland.
Back to Saskatchewan.
A potash mine near Watrous.
The meals are scheduled in three sittings. If you are in number 2, which is the most popular, one day you have to be on another the following. They aren't bad and there is usually a choice of 4 mains including a vegan one.
blink again and you miss thousands of birds and look in the sky for more.
This was going very slowly along a road.
These last two at the town of Unity before we cross over into Alberta the richest province on account of its oil.
At Wainwright now in Alberta.
Looking north into Saskatchewan at 5.30 am.
Out to the prairies. How glorious it must have been to suddenly see this vast flat fertile land. Though it doesn't photograph well from my window. Still a fair bit of snow lying around and I'm still wearing my wonderful merino thermals. Best clothing £100 I have spent in a long time.
The US / Canada dispute rumbles on over borders and resources. Panama and Greenland have gone quiet for now but no doubt work is going on in the background. Meanwhile Trump has stopped billions to Harvard one reason given being that Jewish students don't feel safe there. There must be hundreds of Jewish professors and researchers working there contributing to the world's knowledge. Without funding perhaps they will leave for other centres of excellence. Oxford has a huge new science park!
The food is so sweet when I asked the server, the word used here for waiter from the French serveur, she said everything has sugar in it.
I have had a low level headache a lot of the time maybe the aircon?
Seen skeins of geese and a coyote running on the ice.
The Canada geese have paired up.
It is becoming slightly hillier as we move west.
Some very loud women on board.
Meanwhile Forbes are in Ireland.
A potash mine near Watrous.This area is dominated by silver silos on farmsteads some miles apart. All the hollows are filled with water which reflect the blue sky unless there is still left over snow. Stubble in the fields and not a hint of green. I have to keep eyes open as just dozing off nearly missed a bison farm. Too late for a pic.
We got off here in Saskatoon. Largest town though not the capital.
Where it is flat you can see across to the distant horizon and imagine that it just keeps going following the curvature of the earth in shades of ochre and umber with now and again a little russet or even a mauve tinge.
Near Biggar
The birch is about all that will grow here are are really just rubbish scrap. The birch in the earlier forest are used for things like MDF.
One of the noises in my cabin was due to the plug in the sink not being closed!
At Wainwright now in Alberta.Now Viking.