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Hmm the sun came out this afternoon and then it got colder again!! such pretty weather though. im really excited now about my polar bear trip! over the last week or so people have been trying to put me off going - because its so baron. Also when i went to tourist info they said no one had ever been in to ask about going up there!!!! So on thursday i went back to see Ian (the guy who works in st lawrence market - wildlife photographer who originally told me about going up to cochrane because that is where he had photographed the bears), he got his laptop out and sat down with me for 20 minutes or so and showed me the bus to use and there are quite few hotels and then he showed me all the info on the conservation area. So - i am going!! He was saying that now they are trying to discourage people going up there for obvious reasons. I have to admit i have an element of fear about where i am going - through the canadian wilderness and virtually to the edge of the arctic circle. It is going to be very very cold and awesome (in the truest sense of the word), but more than anything im excited. Real Polar Bears!! It is very sad though that in as little as twenty years there may not be any left because as the ice caps are melting, the polar bears have to try and swim when they migrate when they would normally move along on the glaciers as nature intended. As a result they are drowning.
I don't know what tonight has in store - i think we are watching a movie!! I may have to go out for another walk - the sun last til about 6ish. I think tomorrow i am going running with Johann again - it is good for my training but its so not fair that his legs are as long as my full height!! Its funny cos at the moment he is reading Roald Dahl's BFG!!! A book about himself!!! haha!
Well i think its time to write some postcards to some more of the people i love. I always hope though that everyone remembers how much i love them.
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