2004/08 Yukon trip - The road home - |
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We were headed for Drumheller, a town buried in the strip of Badlands that surround the Red Deer River. These cliffs have yielded many dinosaur fossils, and the town’s main attraction is the Royal Tyrrell Museum. It was too late to visit there so we drove up the south bank of the river and camped at the Bleriot’s Ferry provincial park, with the Badlands cliffs all around us.
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Red Deer River Badlands (Bleriot and Tyrrell Museum) and Saskatchewan and Manitoba (Riding and Turtle Mountains) |
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Sunday 12th September
It was a sunny morning as we took the ferry across the river and drove back to Drumheller on the north bank. The scenery above the cliffs is typical flat prairie, but the river valley itself is a maze of colourful canyons and rocks. Judging by the crowds of oil donkeys on this road it’s also a very productive oil field.
The Tyrrell Museum is very well done, and a great place to spend the day (if you’re interested in fossils that is.) The focus is on fossils from Western Canada, but they have a 
lot from the rest of the world too. I remembered some of the displays from our trip ten years ago, but either they’ve reworked a lot of it or my memory is shot, as most of it looked new to me.
We picked up an emergency message that evening on our satellite phone. We had visions of fire or death, but to our relief it turned out to just be kids needing money. In this case it was Christina needing money for arts supplies (needed by the next morning of course.)