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116 viewsYann stands beside a larger-than-life grain car in Assiniboia.
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114 viewsNative to Saskatchewan? No. As much as I don't like trophy hunting, this deceased hunter's display in Assiniboia was interesting.
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122 viewsYou don't want to race this guy.
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120 viewsWe travelled out of Assiniboia on the old Red Coat trail, retracing the route of the mounties as they marched west from Ontario to bring peace and order to the prairies.
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117 viewsAn old rail bridge stands over a creek in... pretty much the middle of nowhere.
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122 viewsWe parked the car and stretched our legs in a walk along the rail line.
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124 viewsI actually tried to capture an animal crossing the tracks at full zoom but just ended up with this sort of hazy could-be-sasquatch type photo.
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122 viewsBelieve it or not, the foreground is the newer bridge.
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114 viewsFrederic chilling out on the old train bridge.
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108 views"I hope my car's not parked too close to the tracks"
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125 viewsYann walks along the tracks.
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111 viewsPhoto shoot for Frederic
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112 viewsI knew we had a lot of oil in the south but I was surprised to see so many of these.
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103 viewsScotty the T-Rex, a celebrity from the picturesque town of Eastend. His head is here and they're still working on his body, which you can see, in their glass-walled lab.
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121 viewsAn eagle watches over the oil extraction. Now that's security.
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125 viewsDoes this remind anyone of dramatic hamster? Un chien prairie and one of Fred's favourite animals of Saskatchewan ironically.
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118 viewsAfter Eastend the next stop was Cypress Hills, so named because the lodgepole pines that cover them were thought to be cypress trees. The altitude makes this look remarkably northern.
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102 viewsYann resisted the temptation for frog legs.
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112 viewsA kayak cuts across Loch Leven in Cypress Hills' east block.
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93 viewsZoomed in.
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