Jasmin's grandfather has a property there, somewhere in the Yukon territory, on the border of a huge nature reserve park called the Kluane.
The fun people who went for the roadtrip!
Frank (behind), Jasmin and Greg:
Sage, Greg's 'human'-dog:
The car we went in:
Somewhere past the Canadian-American border:
The sky was nice, so bear with me as I show all these sky-shots (I have more, trust me, just uploaded the nicer ones):
Northern lights? No, just nice clouds:
Pit-stop, Lake Bennet:
Beach? Nope, its a lake:
Lots of prairie dogs:
Emerald Lake! I have seen it a million times but I will never get sick of it:
Group-shot!:
So we reached Whitehorse (been there thrice now):
Nice cafe, nice weather:
Tourist!:
So we left Whitehorse after shopping for food in Wal-Mart and The Canadian Superstore, and headed south to Haines Junction.
More sky-shots:
Long long road south:
Haines Junction:
So we picked up her grandpa at his girlfriend's house in Haines Junction and went down to his property:
After a good 20 minutes from the highway, on the beaten track, we reached his estate, Whispering Willow Estates:
The man himself:
His main cabin's kitchen:
Showing us around his property:
A windmill that draws the water from the nearby creek...:
... to the phallic thing on the left, where he gets the water. The water is also drawn directly into the cabin:
But lately he has been having beaver-problems. He has to kill the beavers there cause they were building dams on the creek, flooding it. He tried relocating them to the nearby lake but they kept coming back. So he got himself a license to shoot them. He shot two but he still has one more somewhere in the creek. One of the beavers:
Showing us around the cool cabin:
The kitchen:
Sage, after a day staying in the car while we went shopping in Whitehorse:
The next morning, Frank and I went around the property to look at his other cabins:
The cabin we stayed at:
Whispering Willows Estate:
The main cabin, see how low the cabin is:
The many vintage stuff he has. He has things dating back before the first war:
A really good furnace:
Huge clock dating before the first war:
More antiques, everything has a story:
Made a new friend:
Oh, did I forget to mention he builds his own cabins? Alone? He even has one cabin relocated and he moved that one across a frozen lake back in 1976. Its the same cabin we were sleeping in. He is 73-years-old now and he is still building cabins!This one is for his son. A really famous musician in Taiwan (Matthew Lien). This is just the basement:
There is a knoll behind the incomplete cabin. We hiked up and this is what we saw, all of his property:
The creek you see is called the Flying Squirrel Creek. He named it:
This is where he gets potable spring water:
The lake beside his property, Dezadeash Lake. Its so huge it looks like the ocean (even has tiny 'islands').
Opa ('Grandpa' in Austrian) and Jasmin:
Sage loving the water:
There is a knoll behind the incomplete cabin. We hiked up and this is what we saw, all of his property:
The creek you see is called the Flying Squirrel Creek. He named it:
This is where he gets potable spring water:
The lake beside his property, Dezadeash Lake. Its so huge it looks like the ocean (even has tiny 'islands').
Opa ('Grandpa' in Austrian) and Jasmin:
Sage loving the water:All together now, Awww....:
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