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Ontario Part 2: Algonquin Park, The Wolf Den, and Dave
During the week of the G20, a lot of Toronto was shut down, including the university halls that we were living in at the time. So all of the group went spent the week out of Toronto, in various different places. Three of us (Craig, Lexi and Myself) decided to go to a place about 2-3 hours from Toronto called ‘Algonquin Park’, so we rented a car for the week and made our way to experience the natural beauty, and wild animals of Algonquin.
To set the scene a little bit for people who aren’t that familiar with Algonquin, the actual park is about 7653 square kilometers large (about a quarter of the size of Belgium I’ve just found out!) and has 2400 lakes and 1200 km worth of streams and rivers. It’s also covered with trees and many wild animals including bears, moose, beavers, loons, snakes, squirrels, chipmunks etc. So it’s a great place for hiking/rambling, cycling and canoeing… and we wanted to experience all of them while we were there. So we did.
We stayed at an awesome place called the Wolf Den, and if anyone’s ever staying in Algonquin, I’d highly recommend it. It’s just an awesome place as you’ll see from the photos, but the chilled atmosphere, and the people you meet there make it even better. I had a great time calling that place ‘home’ for a week, and learnt so much as well.
Anyway before I get to the photos, I have to explain the ‘Dave’ in the title of this post. Dave was what we elected to call the wild moose we saw in the middle of our first trail in Algonquin. I had never realised how big moose were until I saw Dave, and how majestic and powerful they are as creatures. And just in case you’re wondering; the plural of moose, is moose. Not mooses, or meese… I asked.
Anyway, enjoy the slide show!
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