Greetings from Ontario Canada

Thank you - and I am very busy. My outdoor expression is just about the only thing that I get to do on any regular basis. Some days I pant for the summer time.

 

Hi again:

Last summer was my first attempt to video a trip - but I have to admit that it was really done badly. I've been looking at the net with the hopes that I will improve significantly this year. I learned a lot from my mistakes - especially about panning and script writing. I do have a lot of photos though. Here are a couple...




I'm coming toward our camp site on Red Pine Lake [Haliburton Water Way Trails]





This is the crew coming through a shallow stream.

I mentioned in one of the threads to look for, Three Minutes and Forty Seconds... [In Canoe Country].

I sure hope that it turns out - the script is prepared and the initial work is completed. I'm hoping to post that in August.

 

The second picture was taken by an older camera the year before and it had a wide lens option. The first picture is with that camera that I won while attending a camping show. Simple - but very effective.

 

Isn't that true? That was one of the mistakes that I made. Even I couldn't manage listening to the accompanying sound. I do plan to have slide show produced for August - man...that seems so far away.

 

That's true...you're right - I've got a busy day tomorrow - see you.

 

My colleagues and I map out areas with the least number of portages and for the most part we canoe on flat water. In some instances we hit ripple water but we don't have the canoe design [or sufficient experience] to hit white water.

I'm going to see if I can download a page from our menu plan - here it goes.

Well...that seemed to be an egg that hit the rock. I hope it gives you some clue as to our menu plan without giving you a kink in the neck - this is just the one page.

 

I'm with you....I don't like the creepy stuff and I'm definitely not interested in having dyes in my food either [or anything else that is peculiar]. I'm the author and I do have some memories posted here and there of things that happened in the past to perk the pages. Some recipe details are left out - because they have been used many times before and are not necessary. In other instances they are simply reminders.

You can have more pages if you want to.

 

I don't use a lot of freeze dried food I try to make up my own recipes with what is at hand. A lot cheaper too. I do use MRE meals. They are a complete and total meal for nine dollars. [Made in the USA] They have everything - the main meal, some sort of vegetable, bread, desert, coffee, tea, jams, sugar, creamer, eating utensils, napkins - the whole works in a bag etc. I believe the shelf life is ten years. The pouch becomes the heating unit. Add water, slip the main meal back into the sleeve and you have a hot meal in about five minutes. I don't take a lot of these but I do have them. It the weather is really bad they are so easy to use.

As soon as the package is open or when you cook the same the animals can smell it. There are products on the market that disolve ordours.

Here is another page from the Menu -

 

Unlike the United States we have only one criminal code and three police forces - municipal or regional - they wear the red headbands on their uniform caps. Provincial Police [Only in Ontario and Quebec] they wear blue bands. Then we have the Federal Police Force the Royal Canadian Mounted Police that have jurisdiction in the nation; they can go anywhere and investigate anyone including the Prime Minister and members of Cabinet. They were the third police force to be organized in the world in 1873 as the North West Mounted Police. The became Royal in 1920. They use every modern device and pieces of equipment that is available today. The Police College in Regina.

 

Base camp is accessible by car and therefore we/ I am able to be more luxurious. When we are tripping into Algonquin and the Haliburton Waterways we do not take cans or glass as they are prohibited. [Fines are really hefty if you get caught.] We make up our own recipes and pack them accordingly for the trip. Some of my colleagues will go fishing on occasion and we will fry the same for supper.