Christmas and Cocos Islands-4th-14th December 2010
Known as “the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean, Christmas Island will surprise you. It has a wealth of culture, history and physical attributes waiting for you to discover. The tour is biased towards walking, although we will access the various sites using 4 wheel drives. There are blowholes, beaches and rainforest, as well as the underwater world to explore. We’ll be there during the annual red crab migration. Then we’ll have 3days on Cocos Island, a completely different environment. We’ll have Rick Curtis as our naturalist guide to find us all the birds and creatures, many of which are endemic to the island. This is another joint venture with Coates Wildlife Tours . We are limited to only 12 people so enquire now if you are interested.
Date: 4th-14th Dec,2010
Price: $4800
Includes: Twin share lodge/motel style accommodation, all breakfasts, most lunches and some dinners, air travel from Perth to Christmas and Cocos Islands and return, transport on the islands, all guiding and National Park entrance fees.
NOTE: Bookings for this trip must be done directly with Coates Wildlife Tours. See trip itinerary for details.
Alaska
Denali National Park is on every Alaskan travel agenda. You go in search of wildlife and you hope to see Denali, or Mt McKinley, the highest mountain in North America. We spent 3 days at one of the campsites in the park. You can’t drive your vehicle around the park , but there are tours and shuttle buses. On our first day, we took a shuttle all the way to Wonderlake, from where there can be a view of the mountain. However, it is only visible 20% of the time, and not while we were there. We saw a handful of animals that first day- moose, grizzly, caribou, fox, dahl sheep. We took a second trip into the park the next afternoon, and had much better views of the mountains. We saw similar animals, but had some closer views of them. And that afternoon we were rewarded by the best rainbow I have ever seen- it was a double one and you could see where both ends touched the ground. [Read more]
The Bowron Lakes Canoe Circuit
Patrick Guiton, one of my regular clients and a good friend, first told me about the Bowron Lakes Canoe circuit a few years ago. A 116km circular canoe trip! I had never heard of such a thing. Anyway, I filed away the information, it looked to be in a pretty nice part of Canada, so you never know…
When Steve and I decided we’d drive through northern BC en route to the Yukon and Alaska, there it was on the map- the Bowron Lakes. Steve had heard of it too, so we thought we just might do it. On our way north we called into Williams Lake. It was late May and the circuit was not yet open, due to the exceptionally cold winter they’d had. Still lots of slush and water in the wrong places- as there is 10km of portaging involved. [Read more]
