Another option day, another omelette, this time adding cherry tomatoes and spring onions as well as the bacon and peppers. Today we move to Bon Echo Park, two hours away. This constant packing up and moving is not good, we never settle and get the proper feel of a place, but is part consequence of the replanned holiday. Blame covid, it's blamed for everything else. I think the minimum is probably two or three nights in a place.
So we repack the van, and travel to the nearby park information centre which has WiFi and allows me to publish the last two days of this journal. It is also very informative about the history and natural history of the area. Looking at old pictures the whole area was cleared by logging at the end of the nineteenth century, and what we are looking at today is a relatively young landscape as it recovers from the previous unsustainable exploitation.
We move a couple of kilometres further down highway 60 to have a look at the Beaver Trail.
This visits two beaver ponds, with dams and lodges. The picture above is of an in-use lodge. We have picked up a leaflet for the walk and it takes us through beaver behaviour and how they remould the landscape to the benefit of many different species ranging in size from mosquitos to moose.
An ants nest in a tree. Never seen this before
Picnic on a bench overlooking the beaver's pond
A butterfly. Not a lot of butterflies, apparently May is flower time here
A beaver's dam
Providing a habitat for Mr Frog
After the walk we spend a couple of very scenic hours driving to Bon Echo Park. There are a few small towns on the way
As soon as we park the van I fire up the BBQ pit while Vera sorts out the van. I hope that I have learnt lessons from last night's mistakes, as I generate embers to cook the potatoes.
Happily, I can report that the spuds were perfect, slightly smokey skins and fluffy inside, and the chicken was just right. It certainly is a life-long learning journey
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