Morning!!!! It's ok, I'm alive!! Have you missed me??!
I have had the most relaxing chilled out 3 nights here by the lake, so much so that rather than bore you daily with my nothingness I would leave it all for one reasonable sized blog for you to get back into the swing of my adventures as they start again today in earnest.
So, where was I? Oh yes, I'd just spent my first night here, got up early to go take pictures, locked myself out, got bitten by sparrow sized mozzies and was now back in the cabin ready to get on with my first full day here.
Oxtongue lake is just outside the Algonquin National Park and that was what I was going to go back and explore a little today. So after my breakfast I saddled up Vera and off we rode back the way we had come to delve a little deeper into some of the landscape we had seen through the rain on the way in.
Now I'm not going to bore you with the details, but basically this park is a massive beautiful wilderness, filled to the brim with lakes and trails and moose and deer and endangered turtles and other such wildlife. The lakes are vast and majestic and my little camera does not do them justice, and quite frankly to you back home one expanse of water looks much the same as another. So you will have to take my word for it when I say it was wonderful, and I only scraped the surface. This is hiker and camper paradise and I can only imagine what sights were at the end of some of the many trails. But what I saw was enough to make me realise that I want to see more of this country.
After a few lakes, the visitor centre, a near death experience with an endangered turtle (near death for him not me) and feeling the sun on my face I headed back to the cabin, via the local grocery store for some bbq supplies (thank you to the lovely woman behind the counter for the lesson on smokies)
When I got back I parked Vera and settled in for the night. It was lovely, sitting on the gazebo overlooking the lake, watching the sun slowly go down, getting to know the local chipmunks and squirrels who seemed to be the only ones on this site, and just feeling myself unwind. My smokies and wieners were fab (although the wieners got a tad charred) so full and happy I went to bed listening to the sounds of silence through my mozzie net protected open window.
And then it was morning, the sun rising, the birds singing, the chipmunks scurrying (they are toooooo cute) and today I was not moving from this lake. So to sum it up my day went something like this....shower, alfresco breakfast with chip, dale and squirrel nutkins, down to the lakeside on the dock, sat for hours in the sun reading and listening to the lake lapping against the shore and the breeze cooling me, had some lunch alfresco, sat by the dock reading, sat in the gazebo reading, sat in the sun reading, took photos, did some washing, read some more, sat in the sun some more, had another bbq (one sad smokie on the barbie), lit a camp fire and watched the sun go down behind the trees. Heaven. |Then I retired to bed, smoky, happy and batteries recharged ready for the next leg of my adventure!!!!
Which is where I am now, looking at the beautiful sun casting its wonderful glow on the lake in front of me. There are pictures to accompany this down time, you will be grateful to hear I only added a fraction of what I took. Then I will be out of here by 10am, bidding farewell to my chipmunk friends and the shores of lake Oxtongue and a 350km journey with Vera as I head for a much larger and more ferocious stretch of water.
So until later with irritatingly annoying pictures of my next leg, with my head seemingly superimposed onto every shot, I shall bid you goodbye and say thank you for continuing to enjoy my ramblingsand as ever, TTFN......! xxxx
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