he fresh pavement of the 417 extension to Arnprior.
The colour was really impressive.
Looking at the map of our really long hike to High Falls.
Crystal and Boing.
Is that a UFO?
Blue stick people models!
Lunch at High falls.
High Falls aren’t actually that high, but they do look nice.
Isn’t this great?
Well worth the hike.
Craig wandering back to his car after signing in at the Sand Lake gate in Algonquin Park.
Part of the falls are in the background.
Lost?
We survived the hike, through sun, cloud, wind, rain – fortunately no sleet or snow. The weather in Algonquin really does change every 15 minutes sometimes.
Crystal sucked into a Terry Goodkind novel as we all wait for our turkey stew for supper. Been there, done that.
The turkey stew with dumplings! Yum!
Craig, Boing, Crystal and Jas eating the fire-warmed apple crisp Tracey made for dessert. But it was a bit chilly (as evidenced by the sleeping bag Crystal is wrapped up in).
Tracey and Craig eatting apple crisp.
Orange, yellow orange.
Boing, the demon of Achray.
It was chilly enough we needed our heater.
Even in the morning, it was chilly.
Tracey, Jas and Craig get ready to enjoy some of Crystal’s french toast.
This is the spot where Tom Thomson painted “The Jack Pine” [link]. The sign reads: You are standing at one of the most famous sites in Canadian art history. It was here, in 1916, that Canada’s now legendary landscape artist, Tom Thomson, sketched a gnarled old jack pine with the hils on the west side of Grand Lake in the background. The following winter, Thomson worked that sketch up into his most celebrated canvas, The Jack Pine, which now hangs in the National Gallery in Ottawa. Park staff rediscovered the tree, by then dead, in 1970. It subsequently fell and was cut up by campers for firewood.
link]. The sign reads: You are standing at one of the most famous sites in Canadian art history. It was here, in 1916, that Canada’s now legendary landscape artist, Tom Thomson, sketched a gnarled old jack pine with the hils on the west side of Grand Lake in the background. The following winter, Thomson worked that sketch up into his most celebrated canvas, The Jack Pine, which now hangs in the National Gallery in Ottawa. Park staff rediscovered the tree, by then dead, in 1970. It subsequently fell and was cut up by campers for firewood. ” title=”This is the spot where Tom Thomson painted “The Jack Pine” [link]. The sign reads: You are standing at one of the most famous sites in Canadian art history. It was here, in 1916, that Canada’s now legendary landscape artist, Tom Thomson, sketched a gnarled old jack pine with the hils on the west side of Grand Lake in the background. The following winter, Thomson worked that sketch up into his most celebrated canvas, The Jack Pine, which now hangs in the National Gallery in Ottawa. Park staff rediscovered the tree, by then dead, in 1970. It subsequently fell and was cut up by campers for firewood. ” />
If you look closely, you can see what is smoke from a forest fire that was about 20km away from Achray. But we did smell the fire on the first day from time to time.
Sunset
Hurtling through the park in an 8 second exposure at 5am as we return to Ottawa to get someone’s spare set of car keys.
Safely out of the park and onto highway 17 in another hand- steadied 8 second exposure. At the top left is the cresent moon and Venus.
Along the old railway to the west…
Freaky neat clouds
A last paddle on Grant Lake.
And leaving the park…
WaVeS
Yes, we needed light to have breakfast.
Jas appears to be barely alive.
Colours!
