The Bahamas a nice, warm, and relaxing, until the storm. It was the third day on my vacation and no one was expecting a giant hurricane. It all came to soon. All at residents and employes at the Regga De Blanc Hotel where told to find cover under a table or bed, something that would protect us. But as for me I was only under part of the table trying my best to help cover my wife and kids so they would not be injured by the hurricane and it's strong winds. As all of this is happening I was struck by a somewhat small piece of two by four that had been broken up by the hurricane, and as it was flying around it broke through a large window in our room which nailed me me directly in the head. I was so very lucky that it tumbled around for a while making the impact as only strong as if it had fallen ten feet and hit me. I was knocked out cold and was in and out of unconsciousness for forty-eight hours until the hurricane was through. After the wretched storm had passed I was one of many to received treatment. As I started to feel better I reviewed the damage surrounding me. Everyone was scurrying about helping clean up what we could. No one was at their regular jobs except for the doctors and emergency services. No one kid was playing, all where doing their part to help out. Through the rest of our vacation my family and I also helped clean up. We helped get clean water and much more. Some undamaged surrounding countries also sent help which we took gladly. My family later found out that the hurricane was named Kyle and only a small F1 which explains the little damage. We also found out that they had been tracking it for only hours and did not have enough time to respond to where it was heading and who to alert so we could be ready. It really goes to show how much the people that find the hurricanes needs to be on the ball and be ready. If they had been faster to tell the countries where the hurricanes path might be, the countries in the path of the destructive hurricane could be ready to alert it's people. But all in all everyone seemed to be Ok and not much damage hurricane Kyle.

The Yukon

The Yukon. Its climate is warm in the summers but not hot, only reaching 80 degrees F at the most, with days as long as 24 hours. The average winter is bitter cold only reaching 39 degrees F as a high for winter, its low reaches 59 degrees F below 0. Today is a perfect day to go hunting for a Polar Bear with my 22 Browning. The Yukon territory is 186,660 miles or 483,450 kilometers. I'm going about halfway acrossed to hunt. Its estimated population of 2003 was 3,100. 58.7% of that is urban and only 41.3% is rural, which seems interesting since there are a lot of farmers. But I will be far away from everyone. The Yukon is split into two different regions, the Taiga which is mostly forests, and the Tundra which is mostly rocky Arctic plains. I'm goiung to be in the Tundra hunting the 12 foot tall Polar Bear. Their main economy is food, wood, printing and publishing. They export valuable furs, most people there trap. I want to sell the fur and get at least $3,5000. They also export fish as food. There was a gold rush in 1896 in the Yukon. The residents there speak mostly English or French, I speak French. I am about half way to where I'm going to hunt. The Polar Bear is very elusive and the only way you find one is by tracks or by running into one accidentally. Luckly I've seem to run into some tracks and I'm going to follow them. I am one lucky dog because its close by. I have set up and got close enough to take the shot. BANG!!!  I have taken the shot and it seemed to go cleanly through the heart. Now all I need to do is clean it up and sell  the fur. This is the Yukon, only located in Canada.