The Ice is Off! - And I am On! - Page 2

prairie tuber · 20 June 2005, 14:09

Close up of the canada goose.

Arctic RIB · 20 June 2005, 14:34

Great picture, you can really see him kicking hard to get airborne. I was surprised to see so many (hundreds) of canadian geese near the university last September.

Rob Jones · 20 June 2005, 14:53

Biggles - what unit did you serve with?

I spent 6 months in Med Hat with the Royal Engineers (96)

1 summer tour filled with Mozzies and long drives followed a few months later by a v-cold winter looking for the lone tree in which to shelter under.

Richard B · 21 June 2005, 00:24

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Originally Posted by Rob Jones

I spent 6 months in Med Hat with the Royal Engineers (96)

I didn't have you down as an armoured farmer!

prairie tuber · 21 June 2005, 01:22

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Originally Posted by Rob Jones

...followed a few months later by a v-cold winter looking for the lone tree in which to shelter under.

Aww come on, it never gets cold on the Canadian prairies! Brisk maybe, but cold???

prairie tuber · 21 June 2005, 07:44

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Originally Posted by Arctic RIB

Great picture, you can really see him kicking hard to get airborne. I was surprised to see so many (hundreds) of canadian geese near the university last September.

Were right in the middle of North Americas Largest Canda & Snow goose flyway. Do you like goose hunting? The posession limit in Manitoba for canada geese is 15 (5 per day) and for snow geese it's 80 (20 per day).

prairie tuber · 14 July 2005, 04:55

Was on Lake Winnipeg yesterday and got a few new pics. Will be back out there tomorrow.

prairie tuber · 17 July 2005, 03:11

These are some more pictures taken on or near Elk Island along the Traverse Bay area of Lake Winnipeg. Here are a couple interesting facts about this lake;

Lake Winnipeg is about 436 Km long by up to 111 Km wide & has about 1,750 km of shoreline (longer than Irelands' coastline). Next to the Hudson Bay drainage basin (which Lake Winnipeg is a part of), the Lake Winnipeg drainage basin is Canada's 2nd largest, draining over 1,000,000 km2 of surface area. One of it's beaches (Grand Beach) is ranked by Playboy Magazine (among others) as one of the top 10 beaches in North America.

Biggles · 17 July 2005, 09:49

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Originally Posted by Rob Jones

Biggles - what unit did you serve with?

I spent 6 months in Med Hat with the Royal Engineers (96)

1 summer tour filled with Mozzies and long drives followed a few months later by a v-cold winter looking for the lone tree in which to shelter under.

Rob,

Sorry for the late reply, I've only just seen your post. I served with RMP. Spent 6 weeks in Med hat working with the local Police. Only got on the Prairie once when the Artillery tried to fire two shells at once from a Self Propelled Gun. Luckily there were no injuries but they were all deaf as a post.

Squaddies kept us busy whilst on R and R.

Regards Nick R.

Brian · 18 July 2005, 09:52

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Okay... I was back in the same area bowhunting for bear on Friday.

Hmmm. I don't think I would go round winding up Prairie Tuber myself, (on the Whaling or is it wailing thread).

prairie tuber · 19 July 2005, 01:08

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Hmmm. I don't think I would go round winding up Prairie Tuber myself, (on the Whaling or is it wailing thread).

LOL Brian, No worries. I wasn't getting wound up on the other thread, just trying to present another viewpoint about some of the issues that relate to whaling as well as fish & wildlife management in general.

Arctic RIB · 20 July 2005, 15:17

Hey Prairie tuber I just read the whaling post very interesting info, I had no idea 300,000 whales and dolphins are wasted each year from commercial fishing that is very sad, whoever eats commercial fish supports this industry and should think twice before helping to sustain it, I only eat fish I catch myself (arctic char and arctic cod etc...)

Never tried bowhunting but that might be a good way for hunting seals in this area considering so many hunters are out in boats in close proximity firing in different directions, scary at times. Also just noticed your post about hunting geese, yes I really do enjoy hunting geese, usually only get 5 per year but its great fun.

I would be posting some pics of RIBING but my damn throttle lever snapped over the winter and have been waiting two weeks for the part. Those are amazing pics of Lake Winnipeg I would love to bring my RIB down in Sept but the season would be ending soon anyway.

Alan · 20 July 2005, 17:16

Hey Artic,
Buddy of mine was in Iqualuit last week working on a tanker. He reckons that you need a bow and arrow to shoot the flies this time of year!

Arctic RIB · 20 July 2005, 19:20

Hey Alan,

LOL that is totally true about the mosquitoes it's terrible this time of year but in one month they will all freeze up again so I'm looking forward to that. Even with the bug jacket you still get bitten somehow, clouds form over your head and they don't go away. Yeah Woodward’s is our fuel distributor, I had a picture of the first ship (Tuvaq) to arrive in Iqaluit even before the icebreaker but I deleted it, guess it's an ice class tanker. It had to be sent back south because the Shell jet fuel and diesel didn't meet our stringent specs but it was back 1.5 weeks later with another 16 million litres of good fuel, It's definetely a small world. I attached a picture of the place where they moore a few days before they arrived and broke up the ice for us, this was on June 29.

prairie tuber · 21 July 2005, 01:34

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Hey Alan,

LOL that is totally true about the mosquitoes it's terrible this time of year but in one month they will all freeze up again so I'm looking forward to that. Even with the bug jacket you still get bitten somehow, clouds form over your head and they don't go away.

AR, you should feel completely at home when you get to Winnipeg. The mosquito happens to be Manitoba's provincial bird.