Showcase your province's varied landscapes - Page 68

Metro-One · #**1341** Posted **Oct 15, 2016, 2:31 AM**

Some great pics of Princeton and area Klazu!

Here are my last few pictures from visiting Canada this past August.

My parents live in the Cariboo so I had to venture up there for a couple days of course.

I did a very touristy thing and went horseback riding as well. I always feel that the plateau portion of the Cariboo Country is the most stereotypical "Canadian" looking area of southern BC

What always amazes me is how clear and blue the sky is in the Cariboo.

Blue Sky Cariboo by Ian, on Flickr

The Old Hitching Post by Ian, on Flickr

A selfie of... myself with an awkward smile. Why not, it is fun sometimes to be a tourist in your own country

Feeling Like a Tourist by Ian, on Flickr

Out on the Trail by Ian, on Flickr

And the view from my parent's place.

Cariboo Summer Life by Ian, on Flickr

Evening by the Fire by Ian, on Flickr

Pics are my own, Cheers.

SignalHillHiker · #**1342** Posted **Oct 15, 2016, 2:33 AM**

Gorgeous pics, Metro. So arid!

Metro-One · #**1343** Posted **Oct 15, 2016, 3:04 AM**

Thanks a lot! Yeah, things get really dusty up there in the summer.

Sadly no more pictures of Canada from me until next year (I hope!)

SaskScraper · #**1344** Posted **Nov 4, 2016, 8:58 PM**

nice selfie Metro-One!
I like the mischievous look

here's some videos from this years 2016 'Saskatchewanderer' of some varied landscapes.. and a Saskatoon Berry farm!

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Saskatchewan had a poll earlier this year for choosing it's provincial Dinosaur!

Royal Saskatchewan Museum in Regina along with Saskatchewan Science center in Regina have some great displays of Dinosaurs but T-Rex Discovery Center museum in EastEnd, Saskatchewan is home to 'Scotty' one of the largest most complete T-Rex fossils ever discovered & now named Saskatchewan provincial 'fossil'.

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http://www.visitcypresshills.ca/attr...covery-centre/

Laceoflight · #**1345** Posted **Dec 2, 2016, 8:23 PM**

Pictures from my last trip to le parc national du Bic, near Rimouski, Qc.

ScreamingViking · #**1346** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 3:21 AM**

Awesome set, Laceoflight. Awesome. Thank you.

Laceoflight · #**1347** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 5:28 AM**

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Awesome set, Laceoflight. Awesome. Thank you.

Thanks, mate :-)

White Pine · #**1348** Posted **Dec 3, 2016, 3:46 PM**

Video of Algonquin Park (Complete with chunkily-moving mist)

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SaskScraper · #**1349** Posted **Dec 14, 2016, 9:50 PM**

time to post some more landscapes of Saskatchewan..
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one to three minute videos each from 2016's SaskWanderer.

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..the interesting theory of the Pronghorn, the second fastest land animal on the planet, is that Cheetahs evolved in North America chasing Pronghorn in Saskatchewan and then migrated to Africa by way of Bering Strait through Asia to pick off the slower land animals in Africa. Once the Bering strait flooded the Cheetahs in North America eventually become extinct but their cousins in Africa remained to be world's fastest land animal to this day..

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eemy · #**1350** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 12:31 PM**

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..the interesting theory of the Pronghorn, the second fastest land animal on the planet, is that Cheetahs evolved in North America chasing Pronghorn in Saskatchewan and then migrated to Africa by way of Bering Strait through Asia to pick off the slower land animals in Africa. Once the Bering strait flooded the Cheetahs in North America eventually become extinct but their cousins in Africa remained to be world's fastest land animal to this day..

It's a compelling theory, but unfortunately out-of-date. False cheetahs (the fast, extinct cat that likely hunted the pronghorn) are more closely related to the cougar and simply evolved many similar traits to the cheetah, likely as an adaptation to faster running.

SaskScraper · #**1351** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 4:24 PM**

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It's a compelling theory, but unfortunately out-of-date. False cheetahs (the fast, extinct cat that likely hunted the pronghorn) are more closely related to the cougar and simply evolved many similar traits to the cheetah, likely as an adaptation to faster running.

Very True, Just reading through BigCats.com Cheetahs Then and Now title headings:
Made in the USA
European Born and Bred
How Many Cheetahs Does It Take
Go Forth and Prosper

..Todays African cheetah species with less than 12,000 wild individuals all genetically extremely closely related and considered DNA identical after going through ice age 10,000 years ago when their population almost went extinct with estimated 500 cats.
Miracinonyx (cheetah-like-cats) in America had at least two species, the puma like Inexpectatus, and the cheetah like Trumani. DNA tests show cheetah related to puma & therefore Trumani. In Europe, the more modern Acinonyx pardinensis and Acinonyx intermedius, as compared to the more primitive Inexpectatus, gave rise to the smaller African Cheetah of today and may have a common yet undiscovered ancestor linking the North American and Eurasian Cheetahs.

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..It's possible that the American and European cats developed their cheetah-like features separately in order to fill a similar niche on two different continents. However, since Trumani, the puma, and the cheetah are related, if Inexpectatus isn't the common ancestor, then there would still have to be another as yet undiscovered common ancestor that migrated one way or the other..

http://www.bigcats.com/cheetahsworkshop.php?C=2

Again, all just theory as with everything paleontological

eemy · #**1352** Posted **Dec 15, 2016, 5:51 PM**

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Again, all just theory as with everything paleontological

It will be completely different in 10 years, that's what keeps it interesting.

SaskScraper · #**1353** Posted **Jan 5, 2017, 5:24 PM**

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It will be completely different in 10 years, that's what keeps it interesting.

Thats the remarkable thing about paleontology, even human evolution is still being mapped out and new species of humans are being found even in this day and age. One of my friends took me to the Maropeng 'Cradle of Humanity' caves not far from where he lives near Johannesburg just months before a new hominid species findings were announced in September 2015. Even with my few undergraduate classes in Archeology & Evolutionary Biology at UofS, it's really exciting to think I was exploring caves that new links in humanity are being puzzle pieced together as we speak.

http://www.maropeng.co.za/news/entry...ry-at-maropeng

ok..so for some more sights and sounds of Saskatchewan.

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SignalHillHiker · #**1354** Posted **Jan 13, 2017, 12:50 AM**

Really beautiful video from Hedley - aerials, diving, and George Street.

https://www.facebook.com/Newfoundlan...5834535253782/

jmt18325 · #**1355** Posted **Jan 21, 2017, 3:18 AM**

I have a question that isn't directly related to this thread - I want to visit Quebec this summer. I'd like to fly to Quebec City and spend a day of two (I was there a few years ago), and visit the Saguenay (fjord and Lac St Jean) and Tadoussac (whales). I don't have time for Gaspe this trip - too bad.

I don't speak French besides a few words, despite being of francophone heritage. I've heard that can be difficult in that region. I figured this would be as good of a site as any to ask if I'll survive lol.

Acajack · #**1356** Posted **Jan 21, 2017, 4:41 AM**

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I have a question that isn't directly related to this thread - I want to visit Quebec this summer. I'd like to fly to Quebec City and spend a day of two (I was there a few years ago), and visit the Saguenay (fjord and Lac St Jean) and Tadoussac (whales). I don't have time for Gaspe this trip - too bad.

I don't speak French besides a few words, despite being of francophone heritage. I've heard that can be difficult in that region. I figured this would be as good of a site as any to ask if I'll survive lol.

Have you ever been to continental western Europe? Or Mexico and ventured outside the resort?

jmt18325 · #**1357** Posted **Jan 21, 2017, 4:56 AM**

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Have you ever been to continental western Europe? Or Mexico and ventured outside the resort?

The first - no. I was in Greece last year though. I don't do tours, so everything was on our own (local transit, etc).

I just got back from Puerto Vallarta - I don't stay at resorts and prefer local restaurants and hotels. I also ride the bus there. I get what you're saying.

Acajack · #**1358** Posted **Jan 21, 2017, 12:23 PM**

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The first - no. I was in Greece last year though. I don't do tours, so everything was on our own (local transit, etc).

I just got back from Puerto Vallarta - I don't stay at resorts and prefer local restaurants and hotels. I also ride the bus there. I get what you're saying.

Then you should be perfectly fine, no?