The Dempster -Part 2

Tuktoyaktuk -Last town before the Arctic Ocean
Engineers Creek

Engineers Creek is a tributary of the Ogilvie River. Iron Oxide, limestone, gypsum, salt and sulphide bearing sediments dissolve in the rain water and colour the creek and earth reds and orange-brown hues. There is a distinctive sulphur smell from the nearby sulphur springs.

Some of the many fungi
Beautiful colour changing leaves
Trucks along the Dempster
Eagle Plains Hotel and Service Station
All these colours are leaves, not flowers.
Getting the truck clean. It’s blue again.

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