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105 viewsYann stands beside a larger-than-life grain car in Assiniboia.
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104 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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112 viewsYou don't want to race this guy.
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112 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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107 viewsAn old rail bridge stands over a creek in... pretty much the middle of nowhere.
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114 viewsWe parked the car and stretched our legs in a walk along the rail line.
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116 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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112 viewsBelieve it or not, the foreground is the newer bridge.
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104 viewsFrederic chilling out on the old train bridge.
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102 views"I hope my car's not parked too close to the tracks"
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119 viewsYann walks along the tracks.
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103 viewsPhoto shoot for Frederic
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106 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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95 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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114 viewsAn eagle watches over the oil extraction. Now that's security.
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115 viewsDoes this remind anyone of dramatic hamster? Un chien prairie and one of Fred's favourite animals of Saskatchewan ironically.
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108 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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96 viewsYann resisted the temptation for frog legs.
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103 viewsA kayak cuts across Loch Leven in Cypress Hills' east block.
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88 viewsZoomed in.
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