Sept 25

The Royal Tyrell near Drumheller is one of North American finest Museums. Durning the 90’s while home schooling my three children and traveling we often would spend a week camping here before heading out to the sporting fields. The Royal Tyrell is built out in the middle of the Prairie at the foot of ancient Jurassic river bottoms where huge concentration of middle and late Jurassic dinosaurs roamed the warm Canadian sea shores. I was enthralled to visit her again and always learn something this year focusing on the Devonian age and the tremendous coral shelves that provided us with our thrust for fossil fuels.

It over to Hanna and we camp at our friends abandoned farm yards. Geese are plentiful but I ‘m not fond of shooting early dumb geese with many pin feathers. I will wait till we move over to Saskatchewan later and hunt the mid Oct bird when the birds are plump from peas and barley. Hanna is void of any hunting pressure and the game is scattered everywhere. Many community pastures hold birds but one must be careful to observe opening dates. Harvest was on time this year and the crop heavy. My friends are satisfied with the harvest and seem anxious to visit and catch-up with the family. The GWP pointer is shaping up well. Fe is adjusting to open terrain and starting to lower her nose to the ground, a difficult task for most pointers. The lab makes birds from soil and stubble. She seem to find them everywhere and she is my compass