Possibly the highlight of our travels so far was a three day canoe trip in the west part of Algonquin Provincial Park. Our family and Holly and her 7 yo daughter, Natasha from Toronto went with our guide, Sean and three canoes on an adventure. Pete and Sean had to do a lot of the portaging (ie carrying a canoe on one's head to the next lake) and we all lugged bags and barrels with our camping gear and food. After a couple of hours of portaging we found ourselves camped on our own little island in the middle of a lake. As a bonus, a baby deer swam across and scampered up on to our island -a little startled to find us there!
It started raining during the first night and didn't stop for eight hours. Sean cooked amazing food under trying conditions - french toast in the rain tastes pretty good!! Later in the afternoon, to keep spirits up, he even made us a sauna with hot rocks and a tarp (that's the blurry picture above!) and we were able to come out of our tents which had become card playing dens! Daniel once again did an amazing job as chief fire tender -even in the rain. Despite the cold, and damp we set out early the next morning in search of Moose -not as easy to spot in Canada as one would imagine!! After cajoling Elsie and Gemma a little (it was 6am!), we paddled for a couple of hours and finally saw a Moose which made all the discomforts worthwhile!
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