Why Hello Travellers,
Last night we found ourselves in the town of Faro, Yukon. After being soaked with rain in Whitehorse and with the good looking forecast for northern lights we looked for a place in the Yukon with a clear weather forecast and came up with Faro. When we arrived we found a lovely little mining town with a great campground in the town (so great that a $6.50 campsite comes with free hot showers, firewood, internet and coffee and snacks at the interpretive center across the road!). It should also be pointed out that the town itself is very beautiful. It’s covered in lovely gardens and even has a strange golf course that winds through the entire town.
We decided to view the northern lights when the sky cleared so we headed to bed for a brief nap. I was a bit confused about why my alarm didn’t wake me up at 2am like I had set it, and with Lana getting up and out of the tent, and the alarm ringing at 2:25am, I was even more confused about why hadn’t it gone off before. I climbed into the car with Lana and she informed me that she had told me to turn off the alarm numerous times and that I had just pushed the snooze button. Apparently I was sleepy.
When we set off to the bridge right outside of town we were greeted by some northern lights in the NW in the clear portion of the sky. There was not too much sky without cloud cover, but we were able to get a little bit of a show. See some pictures below (they’re posted as proof that the lights were there).
The trip has been pretty interesting so far for wildlife, but we were in for a treated yesterday. While we were driving to Faro, a cougar slinked across the road in front of us. It wasn’t a long look and we didn’t get any pictures, but both of us got our first look at a cougar in the wild. After that we proceeded to go the the Fannin Sheep viewing area just past the town. We were skunked as far as sheep go, but we managed to see a porcupine on the way back, and another while we were looking at the northern lights. One of the coolest things was the arctic fox that came up to us while we were cooking dinner. It wandered around us for a little while, about five feet away and then headed off. We saw it again when we returned from viewing the northern lights at about 5am this morning/last night.
Doug in Front of an Old Haul Truck
Northern Lights in Faro
Nothern Lights in Faro
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