You know you live in Canada when...

...you get the following email from campus security.

Moose tranquilized and safely removed from campus

Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers successfully tranquilized and removed a young moose from campus this morning.

The moose wandered onto campus at about 8:20 a.m. and broke through a window in the link between Reeve Theatre and Craigie Hall. Fish and Wildlife Officers had been in the area and were able to tranquilize the moose shortly after 8:30 a.m.

Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officers were to monitor and then release the moose.

Photos from last week

Moose

The lake by our cabin at dusk

Racoon

Manitoba and Saskatchewan

Another 2000km or so behind us, and so are Manitoba and Saskatchewan. Both very interesting, if flat fields of canola and wheat are your thing. Or fields with blue flowers - not sure what that is, flax maybe?

We also saw thousands of cows. Much as I enjoy mooing at cows on road trips, it does get a bit old eventually. The wildlife was quite interesting. We saw LOTS of black dragonflies being blown all over the place as they flew too close to trucks, lots of butterflies around too. A few deer, alive and dead, and plenty of porcupines (all dead). A dog-like animal that might have been a wolf. Many birds too, although I couldn't identify all of them. Ducks (or loons), seagulls, hawks, black bird with orange marks on their shoulders, and many others.

Tomorrow we have less than 300km to drive. Hooray!!! Then to the next big event - my appointment at the consulate.