For future reference for myself, I'm adding daily info on the trip...so that next big trip planning will be easier (I hope). The scheduling of the trip worked out great, and we were almost always already at our new site by 1, and the latest at 2, with the exception of the first day when we arrived sometime after 3 in the afternoon. So the days were leisurely enough for a young family of 5.
The electric green is where we went--so you can see what section of Algonquin we spent our time in. We hardly saw any of the park! Last year we were up in the north west part.
Each day is a new color. Lines are water travel, dots are portages or campsites, the number corresponds to the date we spent the night there.
Aug 19
We set out from home by 9, and got to the park by noon. It took us an hour to paddle across Smoke Lake, these pictures were taken at the end of the portage. This is one of the two portages that Matthew did on foot, since it was relatively short, and besides, it was flat with very few rocks and roots in the path. Nathan and Melanie walked them all. :)
A man made dam at the end of the portage. There was a log chute built here back in the day when it was heavily logged. (More details on the logging and damming on the 21st.)
What a beautiful sunny day! I got roasted to a painful cherry red in just a few hours!! Next time the sunscreen should be left accessible!
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