Some Of My Favorites

Here are a few of my favorite photographs from this summer

A cow and calf out for a walk

Two Sandhill Cranes taking flight

 Black and white view from the cabin

View from the hill in back of the cabin

A brand new morning

Two caribou that came to check us out

Morning mist at the cabin

A caribou trying to hide behind a rock

Zellie and the Inukshuk

End of August Already

Well summer sure did fly by pretty fast!!!!!

End of August means berry picking around here so of we went a picking...   them not me, I just went along for the ride and some fresh air. Actually I went along hoping that there would be a big fat buck I could shoot. I did see a nice buck with my binoculars but it was to far across the tundra so I decided that I would go look for it the following day. Someone got to it before I did so no luck yet on a big buck.

Here are some picture from our berry picking adventure.

Mona and Maria picking (mostly eating) berries

Zellie picking 

Shadow protecting us from the big bad caribou

We did see few caribou that day...   just not the right one

My favorite caribou picture

The Hunting Trip

About a week after a big herd of caribou were passing through we decided to go hunting. We packed up the Ranger and headed out. The plan was for Maria to shoot her first caribou however she could not get the job done. I got a nice little bull and Zellie shot her first caribou, a nice little female.

From the time we spotted my bull to when I finally shot was about 30 minutes. My first shots were with my new Winchester 300 win mag which I soon learned that the scope had been bumped and wasn't shooting straight. I retrieved my .243 Savage from Maria and started to look for the bull once again, once located I knocked it down with the first shot.

After we cut up my caribou we decided to head back home as it was getting late in the day. The next day we packed up the Ranger again in the hopes of Maria getting a caribou. Once again after several shots she was unable to shoot a caribou. So with only two bullets left we drove a little further down the road where I spotted a little female. I asked Maria if she wanted to take a shot at it, she tried to line up the shot but it was really windy by this time and she could hold the gun steady so she gave up. I then asked Zellie if she wanted to try. She said yes so I told her to climb in the box of the Ranger and use the roof for a rest for the rifle. The caribou was on the downside of a little hill so told her to try and aim for the head, she did and shot her first caribou with one shot. Was she ever happy!!!!

Here are some pictures of the trip. I did not include Zellie's caribou as it was a head shot.

Maria and me walking towards a bull caribou that is on the other side of the hill

Me trying to find the bull after switching rifles

Me and my bull

Now the work really begins

Me showing maria how to aim the rifle with a scope

Zellie and Maria trying to sneak up to a caribou

Rainbows, Sunsets, and Sunrises

While we were at the cabin we were treated to some nice rainbows, awesome sunsets, and some spectacular sunrises.

Long Weekend at the Cabin

Well it's been a while since I posted anything on here...   we went south for a three week holiday in Timmins to visit the family. When we came back we spent some time going to the cabin to finish setting it up and we also did some caribou hunting. I got a decent bull and Zellie finally got her first caribou, unfortunately Maria was not able to shoot anything this year. But she sure did try!!!!!!

We decided to spend the long weekend in August out at the cabin, it was our first time staying out there for more than a day. I spent my time going odd jobs around the cabin like finally building an outhouse and building a bench for the outside of the cabin out of some scrap wood.

Here are some pictures from the weekend:

Maria, Zellie, and Myna in front of the cabin

Here is Zellie driving the Jeep to the cabin

Maria walking by the bay

Nancy and Maria on the big rock in front of the cabin