White Turtle Adventures Blog

White Turtle Adventures blog posts exploring with the White Turtles. Exploring can be a single day trip to kayak, bike or take pictures or multi day trips to one or many locations. Tag along as I head out in search of amazing images. I exploring our great country and take pictures at the same time.

I tell all my students if you want to take great nature and wildlife images sitting on the coach will do nothing to get you a great picture.

You need to get out!!!

For some this may be to a local park. Others it may be a trip across the country. And for others it may be a photo expedition around the world. White Turtle adventures blog shares how I get out.

Where to explore

For me it is exploring Canada.

I am not that interested in other countries as there is so much in Canada to explore.

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Writing on Stone trip

Writing on Stone trip this past weekend. It was overcast and cool but the colors were amazing!!! Love this park … Read more

Blue Heron

Went down to Elizabeth Hall wetlands and saw this Blue Heron out looking for lunch. Found some tiny fishy and … Read more

Saskatchewan Sand Hills 2

Part 2 – If you want to visit part 1 click here. Small World – even in Saskatchewan While I … Read more

Saskatchewan Sand Hills 1

Part 1 Another Bucket list Item For a number of years I have wanted to go to the Saskatchewan Sand … Read more

My photographic bucket list – The Marmot

The Yellow-bellied Marmot another subject on my bucket list

I have never written down a bucket list but I do have one or should I say two. Today I found something on one of those lists – a Yellow-bellied Marmot. Some days they seem to get longer as I hear of new subjects that I would like to shoot. The reason that I have two bucket lists is that one list I try to keep realistic. Items on that list are accessible to me in western Canada, like the Yellow-bellied Marmot. On the second list I have items that are crazier like a lion in Africa, Penguins, Tigers, etc.

Yoho National Park

A quick trip to Yoho. A visit on Father’s Day to one of my favorite waterfalls. #Takakkaw Falls in Yoho … Read more

Learning – White Turtle III

Learning, Learning & Learning

White Turtle III - Learning as I go! — White Turtle III – Inside, Learning as I go!

I have been learning a lot with the build of my van……… it has been a lot of fun, a challenge and I have to say again FUN!!! I love learning new things and building the van has really challenged me to learn. Looking at the van today I am 100% done with the functional part of the build. I could leave tomorrow and drive anyplace in the world and the van would do what I want it to.

What I want from the van

Finishing the small things

So doing the initial build was easy, but I am still doing the little finishing that needs to be done. As mentioned before I hate to preplan the build to far in advance as things seem to change as the build progresses. So I had a pile of small finishing projects to work on that I managed to get done over the past week.

Several little projects are now done……

Continued from Part 1 – Read Part 1

Van electrical Part 2

Once the wiring was done to get a basic van electrical system running from the van battery to the new house battery it was time to hook up the accessories to run the van’s electrical appliances. I was doing this work to power the fridge and the Espar heater now and for some lights and a fan later on.

VAN ELECTRICAL

It is electrical !!!!! After putting it off I finally got around to working on the vans house electrical system. I love electrical but at the same time it scares me. The biggest issue is connecting the house battery to the van, but after reading and laying out diagrams I went for it.

Writing on Stone

Writing on Stone in the spring! I LOVE Writing on Stone for so many reasons. I have a hard time … Read more

Cameron Falls Waterton, waterton art, waterton photos

Waterton April 20 2018

Spring has Sprung – Waterton spring April 20 2018 Waterton spring April 20 2018 first visit of the spring. The … Read more

Van & NO SNOW – White Turtle III

Spring – no snow!

If you do not live where the temperatures drop crazy low and the snow piles up you may not get this but today I got to take the van out without snow and cold!!! Don’t get me wrong the van works great in both but it is SOOO nice to be able to open the doors and windows or to get into the van and not worry about the cold or the snow. This is really the first time since bringing it home that I could do that!!!

Storm chasing season is coming!!

I love chasing storms!!! I am not a fan when storms come and chase me, but if I can go … Read more

A trip to Waterton – White Turtle III

Side Tracked

So I thought that I would head out to Waterton yesterday (March 31, 2018) to get some pictures. On the way there I made a detour to Police lake area to see what was out and about. WELL there was a lot of snow out and about 🙂 . The main highways were good but the other roads were really covered and as I was getting closer to Police Lake the amount of snow on the roads got a lot deeper. The best thing about it was that there was hardly anybody on the road except for a few farmers feeding cattle.

Introducing The Van – White Turtle III

Many of my friends and clients know about the new company vehicle that I am working on. In case you didn’t I will put some updates and information here on the blog for you to follow along with. (also it is too hard to keep sending out information to people that ask about the progress so I can link it here under the category VAN ).