6/30 – Yesterday we drove west 150 miles to this really big provincial park Grass River (NW Manitoba) and camped at a primitive park on Reed Lake – also big. It had no water nor electricity connection. Before going to bed the thunder was rumbling and lots of rain during the night (that night a provincial campground was destroyed by a tornado in Saskatchewan). This is really off the grid and beautiful, and it cost only $15.
Everest is always happy when we get somewhere.
Before stopping at Reed Lake we took a 40 mile diversion off the main road up to Snow Lake – gorgeous country and beaver dams everywhere (pic). These were not just beaver lodges, but an extensive dam across the whole creek.
6/30 – We now have a campsite site in Flin Flon, the name of a character (pic) in a 1914 “dime novel”,- electric sites only. I think we were lucky to get this as it’s the only campground here and it was packed with campers awaiting Canada Day (July 1). Everything, other than the laundromat, was closed.
* An adventurer in a 1914 story about the discovering of mining here. The character here is based on an Andy Capp drawing and is up front of the camp entrance.
7/2 – Check Engine light came on the pickup again, this time it coded as glow plug malfunction. We could have gone on (it’s used only to start the car and it starts fine), but I decided it would be be better to get it fixed, which took less than an hour. Total bill was around $130, new glow plug.
So, one more night here and off we go tomorrow morning.
This town, Flin Flon, is located on the border of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, mostly the latter.
Probably good idea to wait until tomorrow for travel – it’s been raining, hard at times, all day – and it’s cold – in the high 40s.
One pretty cool thing happened yesterday on the way back from the laundromat. We drove past a seaplane base and got to watch a Dehavilland Beaver on floats land right in front of us.
BTW, we have now been to all Canadian provinces, and all territories except Nunavut (that is a sprawling huge territory centered on central Canada, extends from Hudson Bay to the Arctic Ocean and we ain’t going there. )
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