Shower Day

Awake at 7.30 and go for a morning walk along the Lake Arrowhead trail. The morning air has a refreshing coolness. Chipmunks scurry across my path and unidentified small birds rustle around in the undergrowth. 

I am aiming for the Beaver Meadow trail, hoping to see signs of beaver activity. But, and this will be of interest to conspiracy theorists everywhere, I find that Area 51 is closed and the beavers will have to wait another day. I see what I think is an owl, sitting on a branch. It glides silently away before I can capture it's picture 

Returning to the RV I go to use the campsite showers. Each of this is an 8ft x 4ft room with shower head coming out the wall, three hooks for your stuff and a shelf for footwear. I push the blue button and the shower bursts into life, sending a huge and powerful jet of hot water across the room. It's like a water cannon. It goes on for ages, and doesn't seem to stop. I toy with the idea that pressing the blue button again might close the flow, but it looks like a timed-release valve so I resist the thought as this will only start the wash cycle all over again. After what seems like forever, the water stops. I know Canada has a lot of water, but this has to be heated and seems extravagantly wasteful.

Vera then goes off to shower. She discovers that she can turn off the water by opening the external door to the shower room. Strange

So nice and clean, we walk to the Big Bend Lookout. It's difficult to imagine that all of these layers of sand and gravel were deposited in a 40 year period as melt water at the end of the last ice age carried its detritus into a huge glacial lake 

Today's RV excitement is that the fresh water tank is showing as empty. The black and grey waste water tanks are also showing as empty, which makes me wonder where all of the water has gone. I think the waste tanks must be huge in comparison with the 35 gallon fresh tank, to allow for when the RV is connected to a water supply. 

So we pack up the van, we are moving sites today anyway, and drive to the nearest water tap. It has no screw thread to connect to our house. We have to go to the water station next to the waste point. It seems to take forever to fill the tank.

We then park up, have a picnic lunch, and take the trail up to Stubbs Falls. These are quite delightful

We have noticed a lot of these: tree stumps with a new tree growing over them

We finally leave Arrowhead park, pick up supplies, including dry logs, at a nearby store, and head towards Algonquin Park. Highway 60 is very scenic and the miles roll along. There are moose warning signs, but no Moose

We arrive at Canisbay campsite at 5, and book in. Our pitch, the last one available when I booked, is problematic. The power supply is a long way off, and our cable will only reach after I reverse our huge vehicle between a tree and our fire pit.

Pasta for tea, after which we sit out, and light a small fire.

The new wood is a joy to work with. It splits easily with the axe, and catches light very quickly. We sit out late, this site is much quieter than Arrowhead, just a low hum of a few people chatting and a gentle breeze. No traffic noise. The stars look very bright, but there is too much tree cover to see much sky

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