Saturday June 17, 2006
Caliper Lake Provincial Park
This relatively unused park is on highway 71 between fort Francis and Kenora. We stayed here a number of years ago, and we were surprised at how the trees have rown since we wrere here before.
There are a number of walk-in campsites near the lake, great for tenters:
After a short stay, we are off to Winnipeg, heading for Riding Mountain National Park
Friday June 16, 2006
Quetico Provincial Park
We made the move to Quetico for an overnight stay, we have't been there for over 10 years.
The park has a number of seasonal campers in the Dawson campground, this seems to be helping to improve the usage of the facility.
There already are a large number of people canoeing in the park, from the quantity of cars in the lot at the canoe launch site.
There is still a lot of wildlife in the park:
A woodpecker working on a tree:
Some relatively tame ducks near the campsite:
Quetico was a great one-night stay and the lake looked very inviting for anyone with a canoe
Thursday June 15, 2006
Back to the Thunder Bay KOA
We are back in Thunder Bay, getting provisions in preparation for heading west, we will probably be in Quetico Provincial Park tomorrow.
Wednesday June 14, 2006
Second day at Armstrong
Today it is quite warm, a great day to take the dogs over to Mackenzie lake to cool them off!
Kasey is showing his fine swimming style!
We had to make a dump run, and ran into "Moose" and a local bear
Tuesday June 13, 2006
Armstrong Station
We made it up to Armstrong Station (about 240 Km. north of Thunder Bay), and we are tucked into our daughter and son-in-law's driveway. We plan to be here for a couple of days, enjoying the countryside and the pleasant company. We had a great campfire in the evening, the bugs were kept at bay with quantities of DEET.
We have some pictures of the remains of the old station that we took last year:
This picture shows the remnants of the larger radome, now used as a base for an antenna
This is the smaller radome
An interior view of some of the "electronics" under the top of the radome. It's amazing how large the electrical panels were, before the time of integrated circuits and transistors.
A view from the base of the smaller radome, looking towards the larger radome
a link to an interesting web site that covers the history of the Armstrong site and other Pinetree sites:
http://www.pinetreeline.org/site2.html
Monday June 12, 2006
Lost web pages!
I'm not sure what happened (blame Bill Gates!) but all the web pages prior to Pakaskwa disappeared, and I broke the cardinal rule (save, save, save!).
Oh well, if anyone needs info on the provincial parks that we visited, pease ask!
Thunder Bay KOA
We are spending a night here! The good news is that there are no bugs to speak of, the bad news is that we are in between the Trans Canada highway and a main rail line, so it's not the quietest place on the planet.We provisioned in Thunder BAy, and tomorrow we head for Armstrong.
We look forward to the visit!
Sunday June 11, 2006
We arrived at Pukaskwa just before noon today. Unfortunately, we could not get a clear shot at the satellite, so this post is being included from
There are about 4 other campers here, and 2 new trainee park attendants. The temperatures have increased and in the trees, there is little wind. Occasionally, cool drafts come off the lake, keeping the mosquitoes at bay.
We wanted to take the
We had some pictures of the trail in the computer from last year:
Instead, we spent some time on the beach, and Kasey enjoyed his usual swim in the +4C water!
The north
The rocky shoreline is beautiful; Pukaskwa has some trails over and around these rocks.
We are off to