A Few Days Off 

A Few Days Off

For the long weekend, I went on a canoe trip with my son. A total of 9 "guys," three of them fairly young boys. In beautiful, isolated Algonquin Park. Fun, sometimes challenging.

UPDATE: Not much wildlife. One moose, maybe a year old, not too far away from our canoes. A few loons. Several families of ducks, but remarkably dull ducks. The guy in the stern of my canoe is a real bird-watcher, and he was kind of amazed at how few birds were visible. A few shore birds, including (oddly) a plain old robin. Lots of plain old gulls, such as we could see in the city anytime. A couple of hawks. Crows. Turkey vultures.

We camped on an island, deliberately trying to avoid mosquitoes. There were very few critters there at all--a few red squirrels. Hardly any bugs of any kind. Few birds.

The whole wilderness kind of eerily quiet.