Sunday, April 10, 2011

Great Slave Lake !







We just arrived at yellow knife, Northwest Territories and right now, we are heading towards the Great Slave Lake to do some fishing and hiking to take a look at the landscape and landforms there. At Yellowknife, the weather right now is about 10 degrees Celsius and i still think that it is a bit breezy. Luckily we didn't come here in the winter because the winters here are long and cold with an average of -25 degrees Celsius but luckily, the precipitation is low, bout 250 to 500 mm a year.

We drove from Yellow knife to the Great Slave lake by taking the ice road which is one straight road that connects the two places together, isn’t that great?. It was quite a long ride so on the way, I wrote down everything I saw along the way that was astonishing.

In the car ride, I saw many massive rolling hills and I guessed that they must have been caused by folding and faulting plains since I learned that in geography class. Also, I saw many houses built on metal rods to support them which made me guess that there must have been permafrost under where the citizens lived. The car ride is taking such a long time to get to the Great Slave Lake so im going to take a nap and continue writing later.

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