Monday, September 10, 2012

16 Day Canoe Trip in La Verendrye, Quebec - August 10 - 26, 2012

Day 1: underwater revealed...

Day 1: A young Tom

Day 2: Started to clear up after a couple days of rain

Day 2: A double rainbow!
Day 3: Our one campsite beside rapids. We enjoyed one of our favourite activities - swimming out  into the rapids, floating down and riding the eddy back. Fun!

Day 4: Reservoir Dozois 50 years after being flooded

Day 4: Rein, Silka and I collected driftwood and rocks on the beach and created a sculpture. Here it is captured as the sun was going down. 

Day 5: Rest Day on our own island on Reservoir Dozois. Tom is perusing the maps and figuring out where were are going next

Day 5: Rest day continued... Rein fishes as Silka creates...
Day 6: Out of the morning fog

Day 6: A silver fog

Day 6: Making ripples in the glass

Day 7: Rein became our fire starter this trip

Day 7: Preparing for dinner

Day 7: Ah, the beaches...still on Resorvoir Dozois

Day 7: The same beach...

Day 7: A child's play become so simple - down to drawing in the sand

Day 9: The skies took our breath away this trip
Day 10: Shawn and Julia arrive - Day 10 - Yippee!

Day 10: Getting ready to go fishing

Day 11: Ahhh....

Day 11: Paddling in Shawn and Julia's beautiful cedar strip canoe...

Day 11: Rein helping Tom drag the canoe through some rapids

Day 11: Tom taking a rest...

Day 11: Set up at a fantastic campsite with a sand spit that extended to an island. Bear tracks going to the island - when will it make its way back?

Day 11: Julia taking a rest...

Day 12: the group shot before a day of paddling and dragging through a creek

Day 12: Rein saves a dragonfly from drowning
Day 12: Silka rock hops to the canoe

Day 12: Walking the canoe through one of many shallow sections

Day 13: Shawn and Julia take a rest day and we move on. Here are Rein and Silka portaging together.

Day 13: Portaging with Dad
Day 13: a sky's reflection
Day 13: Who is that bespectacled with a speckled frog?
Day 13: One of many spectacular sunsets


Day 14: the Kirby-Olvet family was here...

Day 14: Rein catches a Walleye - one of the many fish we did not end up eating - don't ask....

Day 14: Silka plays against a back drop of spectacular light

Day 15: Woke up to the sun's rays extending through the trees and onto the forest floor around us
Day 15: Look at that Fly Agaric - it was the size of a plate!
Day 15: Our last sunset on trip
Day 16: Rein and Silka successfully paddling on their own...
...with Dad walking alongside them
Day 16: Sailing the last stretch back to our car


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