Two Down, Four to Go!
Since my
last posting I have put two trips under my belt for the season. The first was my annual fishing trip with my
Dad and the second was my first solo trip in eleven years!
For our
fishing trip this year we decided to relax a bit and car camp at the Achray
Campground on Grand Lake on the east side of the Park. We took the little motor boat in and fished
Grand a bit but mostly we canoed and fished the surrounding lakes. Unfortunately we didn’t catch a thing this
year which was a first. Despite that it
was a great trip as always.
I also
embarked on my first solo trip in eleven years.
It seems hard to believe that it’s been that long but work and the wife
and kids have a way of limited what I used to be able to do. For my trip I headed out of the Tim River
access point to Big Bob, down the Nipissing River to Loontail and Latour
creeks, into Rosebary, Mubwayaka and north back into Tim Lake. It was a great trip and with more
conservative packing than in the past I was able to get away with one medium sized
pack and do all my portages in one carry.
Trip logs
for the two trips will be posted shortly as soon as I get them transcribed from
my journal.
So now I’m
back at work in the Park. Next trip will
be our annual staff trip that us Naturalist do prior to programs getting
started. It’s a great way for us to get
out and explore a part of the Park that some of us might not get to experience
otherwise. This year it looks like we are
heading south down to the panhandle out of Kingscote Lake, up to Scorch and
then down the York River. I’m looking
forward to this trip as, apart from Kingscote Lake, I haven’t really been to
this section of the Park. The other
possibility we had was heading into Dickson to White Partridge and up White
Partridge Creek then the Crow River to Lavieille and back down to Dickson. This would have been my first choice as it
would have covered some areas I’ve wanted to get to in a while.
After that
trip I still have three trips left to go.
A trip with my wife, our first in seven years, to Shirley Lake. Then a trip with my two boys, my eldest’s
second and my youngest first and lastly my annual trip with my Dad in August
where we’re heading south of Highway 60 for the first time in probably close to
twenty years.
I may try
and squeeze another solo trip in the fall but that will have to depend on work
and if my wife will let me get away for another trip.
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