Tag: Northern Skies

Day 6: When Aurora Found Us “Off The Grid”, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon

Our last night on the Wheaton river had finally come. I wasn’t quite ready for it. I’d gotten used to ‘off the grid’ life. Storing perishable items in a cooler on the front porch had become normal. I was okay with not having phone reception. In fact, the lack of electricity meant that my mobile battery was always dead anyway, so it didn’t really phase me… Read more →

Day 3: A Traveler’s Christmas, 10 Winter Days in the Yukon

I’ve always wondered what a Traveler’s Christmas would be like. You know, the kind where everyone feels that communal sense of displacement and homelessness and can temporarily fill that void by sharing stories and traditions from their home country with other traveler’s from around the World? Well, this year I got to experience it. We experienced our first White Christmas… Read more →

Fire And Stars At Lake Cowichan (Timelapse)

  Timelapse of Lake Cowichan taken from Harmony Ridge B&B.   Check out this timelapse from a recent trip to Vancouver Island. Having spent countless hours staring at the stars and milky way in the Southern hemisphere back home in Australia, there’s definitely something I find eerie about the Northern skies. I’m not sure if they are just dead pixels… Read more →