October 9th

Another long weekend in Edmonton. I have been here three weeks and I have had three long weekends in a row. Saturday Only Daryl and I were here so we decided to find something to do. As we were leaving my building we found there was a golf simulator on the 3rd floor. I think I will be spending some time in there. We then took a drive downtown Edmonton. After that we took a drive to Elk Island Nation Park. This park is a designated dark area for watching the stars. Too bad, just around sunset it started to cloud over. We will have to go again. But we did see Buffalo. Watch the video!

 October 3

I took a trip to the West Edmonton Mall this past weekend.

See what I saw there.

 September 30

Another long weekend!. CFB Edmonton is closed today for Reconciliation day. Work has been going very slow this week, but at least we are getting great weather. All week it has been in the mid 20's and sunny. Last Sunday another tech Scott and I drove up to Jasper for lunch. That's a 3 1/2 hour drive one way. Love going to the mountains. Here's a few pictures.

Hers' two pictures of were the fires were last month. We saw a little bit of smoke and helicopters dropping water.

 September 10 2022 

 After a 2 week vacation I arrived  to work at CFB 3rd Battalion Support Base Edmonton. Upon my arrival driving through the city to pickup some keys I find the city is very clean and roads are wide and not busy. While I was waiting at Toronto airport I received a text by another tech to watch you speed while driving in Edmonton. This was the first thing I noticed. There were radar camera's everywhere and everyone was doing the speed limit.   Monday morning I arrived finding that guys are NOT being treated good at all. The DND people on the base think it's ok to put or supplies and us in a sea container and have us work out of them in the heat and cold. It's not a very friendly environment. This isn't going to work when it gets real cold!

CFB Edmonton is an Army Support Base, There's not much equipment here.

Some of the Guns here are;

           81 mm Mortar                                                             

                     9mm Pistol  

              50 Cal Machine Gun                                                      

                   C3 105-mm Howitzer  

             7.62 mm Machine Gun                                           

        5.56 mm Automatic Machine Gun

               

               C8A3 Carbine Rifle                                            

                   C9A2 Light Machine Gun

          C15A2 Long Range Sniper Weapon                  

             C20 Automatic Sniper Weapon

    M72 Light Anti Tank Weapon                     

M777 Light Weight 155mm Towed Howitzer

Here's some of the Heavy Armored equipment:

                 Bison Armored Vehicle                                

           Track Light Armored Vehicle

                                                                               

          Tactical Armored Patrol Vehicle

                            Leopard 2 Tank

                                                                          LAV 3               

        Leopard 2                                                                 

                               LAV 3

         Heavy Logistics Vehicle                                        

             G Wagon Light Utility Vehicle

              Coyotes Armored Vehicle                                                   

           with 66mm Rocket Launcher

                         Coyote 

           BV02 Tracked Carrier                                             

                             The Cougar

Also on base are a few helicopters. 

                                                         403 Squadron

The first weekend I was here there are only 2 of us left in town so Perry and I thought it would be a good idea to take a drive through the mountain's. We drove from Edmonton and stayed in Jasper the first night.

                                      

                                                                                          This is called a Jasper House

                                                                                                   (Out House!)

                       

             ELK

The First day was a great drive. It's always good to get back in the mountains! Our second day we left about 9am. It was a little disappointing because we had fog. We couldn't stop to wait for the fog  to burn off because we had planned to get to Cochran, The fog finally dissipated after 11am.

Here's some pictures before we leave Jasper in the mooring. Nice to wake up to this!

                  

On our way!

  

      

       

We couldn't get into Lake Louise because of an event that was going on. Couldn't park anywhere near the lake. Maybe next time!

                  Lake Louise Hotel                                                                                       

                 Banff Springs Hotel

                                                                                       

         On our way back to Edmonton.