National Park and St. Louis Bridge

It was a full moon last night. Supposedly the closest one has been to our planet in a number of years as well. So we went out to the P.A National Park to listen to the wolves and check out the moon. We fed Whiskey Jacks and were flabbergasted by snow fleas. Obviously it was a good time. I will post about the wolves later as I have a story for you!

Bye Bye winter.

I can smell that crisp Western wind in the air. It is time to say goodbye to the coldest and longest winter that my memory serves up. Not that I'm complaining though because with each passing winter day my lust for spring has grown. The Cuckoo bird is soon to make its way North and the banks of the rivers will once again crumble against the rushing waters. One more month of school and it will be time to get work. There are nations to conquer and maidens to rescue. It is time for the sun to beat down my weathered brow.

YEAH TOAST!

This is how I make toast. Actually this post is not about making toast(rhyming intended). It is about my never ending tank of propane. Well at least I thought it was never going to end. For 27 dollars worth of C3H8 that I bought in America when me and my pal Josh went winter travelling last year, I was able to go through an entire BBQ season and 7 entire months of cooking every single day in the trailer. I'm thoroughly amazed. It finally ran out just last week.

The opportunity to become the wanderer has gone the way of the melting snow for me. Oh well, there are still adventures to be had and I certainly can't complain about being back in Regina for the summer. Thanks to everyone that was looking out for me.

Time to take this full time

Well there is a summer job opportunity for someone to blog about the amazing places Saskatchewan has to offer. Sounds like the job I was born to do. The ministry is going to come up with a short list of candidates and then the province will vote on who they want to be their wanderer. I will be sure to let you all know when the voting begins.

Here is the the video

Best of

With this job opportunity I wanted to take the time here to post my favorite pictures from the blog.

An entire week of learning and adventure

I just got back from winter camp today. We were privileged with accommodations at Christopher Lake for the last five days while we learned all about fish netting, water quality testing and wilderness survival.

Christopher is a gorgeous little lake about 40 minutes North of Prince Albert inside the Boreal forest. We were treated to three square meals a day and a cabin full of bunk beds. I was in a much more posh situation than normally. I had running water!

I never went to camp as a kid so this was a new experience and it truly ruled. I really did not want to leave. Good friends, guitars and lots of learning. It seemed like everyone at camp was a secretly a musician so we had five straight nights of campfire guitar playing and loud singing. There was one old toothless man who truly ruled the roost. His guitar playing was spot on and when he sung at your campfire, every camp for half a mile could hear his voice.

We learned how to net fish and classify the population. We learned how not to tie knots when using the jigger (used to run the net under the ice. I tied the one set of knots and our instructor tied the other. When it became apparent we lost the jigger I became awful nervous. But as we pulled the loose rope out of the ice the truth came out and my knot had stood the test of time. We also did a bunch of water quality testing on the surrounding lakes that we will take back to the classroom.

I also learned that I will never buy a power ice auger. A sharp hand held auger is just as fast and ten times as reliable. It is also lighter, gives you a workout and you don't have to waste money on the ever expensive gasoline.

Wilderness survival was once again a blast. Our instructor was far to easy on us and gave us tarps, extra blankets, poly and even an axe and saw. Our shelter had an awning! we set up the poly so we could roll it down when night came so we could keep in the heat and keep out the smoke. We hardly needed a fire it was so warm in there.
Give me a saw and a tarp any day and I'll build you the Vatican.