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Whitehorse, Yukon
Whitehorse is a City of
many different things like it’s a great place for hunting and fishing.
Those aren’t all the great things because Whitehorse is surrounded by
lakes that are great for kayaking, canoeing and swimming. If you like
scuba diving you can go scuba diving in the lakes because most of them
are around thirty meters at the deepest parts and those are the small
ones! If you like hiking and mountain biking you could go in any
direction and find good trails all around. (Which is obvious!)
I must admit that finding a really nice house is
hard unless you really like spending. Riverdale is probably one of the
good places to buy because you are close to schools, the hospital, the center
of town, and most of all the trails.
One of the problems of Whitehorse is that when it
gets to be cold some people leave and it gets to be a bit of a
drag because you won’t have any friends because they are going on holidays to warmer
climates.
The weather of spring around now is quite good
except there is so much mud around and people are getting wet feet because
they’re getting wet when they walk on grass because the grass is soaked
from the snow that has melted. One attraction that will be happening is the
Canada Winter Games which are coming here in the winter of 2007.
Schooling here is interesting because there are only
two schools that I know of that are French which are my school
Whitehorse Elementary and Emilie Tremblay which is a Francophone school
as I hear. If you want to finish a masters degree or become a doctor or
something that you need a lot of schooling this isn’t a very good place.
One very fun activity of the summer is renting a
couple kayaks and kayaking down Miles Canyon when it isn’t too rough
like it was a year or two ago. A good family activity is maybe renting
a canoe and going down anyone of the rivers as long as it’s not too
rough and crazy. The main stores here are I’d say the Super store and
Super A for stuff like food.
I think everyone should stop hunting for stuff like
bears, moose elk and caribou because there are only about 165,000
tundra caribou left in Yukon
(That may sound like a lot but caribou are dying from all sorts of
things like hunters which is obvious and wierd diseases.) There are not
nearly as many woodland caribou left because they live closer to all
our pollution so there’s only about 60,000 lef. That is two caribou a
person in Yukon but most hunters kill more then two a year and meat
stores always have caribou sausage.
Posted by 2746@y... on 5/16/06; 8:03:07 AM
from the Aziz dept.
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