Steve and the swimming squirrel

Today was the day of our canoeing expedition. Our enthusiastic and knowledgeable guide, Steve, took us out on one of the lakes in Algonquin for a few hours of paddling. We ended up in a beautiful and peaceful marshy area carpeted in water lilies. On the return journey Steve got ridiculously excited at the site of a swimming squirrel, something he'd never seen before in all his time as a canoe guide.

We also dropped into the park's visitor centre, complete with stuffed bears, creepy talking mannikins and a board for reporting animal sightings - according to it, a bear had been spotted in our campsite that morning. We suspected this may not have been a serious report, though, because the same person had also reported a "mosquito...on my arm".

Some of us finished the day with a 7km trek along the trail of an old railway line, followed by a BBQ and beer.

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lucy3119 on August 2, 2012 from Algonquin Park, Canada

from the travel blog: Canada and a little USA 2012

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