Mother-Daughter camping trip - Part 2

The only house on the lac Touladis

We had talked about doing the long canoe ride on Monday so we could take it easy Tuesday. But the wind decided to play. Windiest day since we've been at Parc National du Lac Temiscouata. Waves on Grand Lac Touladis was showing white crests at some point. Daughter pointed out that she wanted to vacation not exercise.

We stopped for a short break. I needed to stretch

We really struggled to paddle that 8km against the wind and the current. I saw about 5 or 6 eagles flying about but much further out on the lake then where I saw the Eagle early the first morning. We left around 12:30, took us till 4pm to get to the centre at Petit lac Touladis.

House seen canoeing out of our campsite

We left the visitors centre at 5:30 and make it back to our campsite by 8pm. My feet got bitten by an insane amount of deer flies most of whom met their demise after biting me. Saw 5 more eagles on the way back. Could be the same ones we saw going the other way.

We also saw a dead moose carcass on the way back, that everyone had been talking about. Three of the parc staff had talked to us about it, and one of the group of campers.

Parc personal on motorboat doing headcounts

After we got back to our campsite just as night was falling we hear a motor boat on Grand Lac Touladis. I went to take photos on the beach. They were doing a body count. They were trying to figure out who was where. We told them that we had both of our cars parked at the Grand Lac Touladis picnic area.  It's good to know that the parc employees do keep track of who is where and that no one is lost on the lake at night.

We found out the next day, they did find the missing camper they were looking for - he had stopped at the main campsite to talk to friends.

Sunset on Grand Lac Touladis