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Thanks so much for checking out our video from our trip through a few of Algonquin Provincial Parks Northern lakes.

Trip Report
Day 4 - 7 ish km

Welcome to Day 4 of our adventure and check out our previous days, leading up to this point in our playlist. Today is our rest day, where we do not have to pack down our tent and move to another campsite. However, this did not mean we were just going to sit on our butts all day and watch the day pass by. We woke up to a gorgeous sunrise and a glassy flat lake. After a breakfast of instant oatmeal and hot chocolate we grabbed a few items and jumped into our Swift Prospector canoe and began paddling down the Petawawa River once again. Our destination today was Blueberry Waterfall on the Crow River.


In order to get there we had to portage around two sets of rapids. The first would take us around Francis Rapids and the second around Killdeer Rapids. Both were quite short portages at only a couple hundred meters, but both were pretty overgrown and not well used. This is exactly what we were hoping for. We wanted to reach some really remote places in the park that had little indication of previous human impact.


We left the Petawawa River and began paddling up the sandy bottom Crow River. It was an easy paddle with little current, but there were a few downed trees that required a little effort to get through. We could hear the thunderous noise of the waterfall before we reached it. The base of the waterfall was quite shallow and we did not even attempt any fishing here. We hiked around the waterfall for awhile, enjoy the lack of wind and warm sun on our faces.


The return trip back to our campsite was largely uneventful and we made it back around noon. For lunch we made some bannock and soup over the campfire and then headed out in the canoe on Francis Lake. We trolled our fishing lines behind the canoe hoping to catch a few fish as we took in all the beauty of the surrounding area. Alex was able to land a walleye, his first in Algonquin Provincial Park. Walleye are often called Pickerel, however that is a deceiving name as they are not part of the Pickerel family. The scientific name for Walleye is Sander Vitreus and are only found in a few of Algonquins lakes.


As the sun was beginning to get low in the sky we headed back to our campsite to fillet up Alex's fish for dinner. Fresh fish for dinner along with some instant mashed potatoes was just what we needed after a day out on the water. We were greeted with another gorgeous sunset over a calm lake. With an even bigger day planned for tomorrow we retreated to the tent in good time. However, it was not long before thunder and lightning woke us up and we hustled to put a tarp up over the entrance of our tent.


By putting up the tarp it would allow us to take down our tent and pack up our gear while staying dry. It is also much more enjoyable to eat breakfast under a tarp than in our small Marmot Tungsten 2 person tent. It was still very warm outside when we put up the tarp so we were hopeful that it was only heat lightning above us and that it was not going to storm. We closed our eyes once again, hopeful that we would wake up to a dry Day 5.


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