Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Dream State


It’s that time of year when we start looking at our vacation time and start making choices on what adventures we want to do in 2008. We have a couple big sporting vacations booked in already, the Everglades Challenge and the Louisville Ironman. Then we have the 5 day Hardcore Adventure Camp thrown in the mix, along with our second annual paddle / sail rendezvous.
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There is always room for more adventure…
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Laura has caught the adventure bug (actually never lost it) and beat me to the punch/paddle. She forwarded me some info on the Woodland Caribou Provincial Park. Wow...paddle paradise.
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Most of these dream trips are postponed until retirement as the typical two week American vacation does not offer enough time to get it all in. But this is worth investigating, even if it is done in part.
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Woodland Caribou Provincial Park, located between Red Lake and the Manitoba border, is home to large herds of woodland caribou. As Ontario's 5th largest Provincial Park, it offers over 1,600 kilometers of canoe routes.
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You can paddle the fur trade routes of the Hudson Bay and Northwest Companies or explore a chain of unnamed lakes. The abundance of connecting waterways provides the canoeist with the flexibility to plan unlimited and unique canoe routes within the park. You are more likely to see a woodland caribou, a moose or black bear than a human being.
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Woodland Caribou Park is accessed primarily by aircraft, but there is water access via Red Lake to the Gammon River System (Douglas Lake). Main water access points from the east are lakes such as Knox, Douglas, Leano, Sydney and Eagle.
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Not discounting what we have here locally...Chris at the paddling shop made a statement a few weeks back. "People drive through Wisconsin to paddle Quetico, but miss what is right in front of them in Wisconsin." Some outstanding paddling right out my back door. but none-the-less;
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I’ve sent away for some more specific information as dreams become reality with the first left out of the driveway. – The Capt’n

1 comment:

Kristen said...

Sounds like a trip to do, alright. Your holiday mentality is sad here - had eight weeks in the Netherlands, and five weeks in the UK...