Jen and Will's North American Adventure!: Algonquin Park

The weather wasn’t brilliant when we stayed two nights in Algonquin Park, but we decided to lash out and actually stay in an RV park. We stayed at the Two Rivers campground on recommendation from a friend and it was a lovely spot near a lake. And besides, for us rainy weather = movies in Betsey!

We went for two hikes on the second day. The first hike was about 6km (not 10km like I’d thought and prepared for, oops) and there were some nice views from high up, but being overcast it wasn’t that great. We braved the wet weather, but fortunately didn’t get too wet, being under the trees for most of the time. We did see a woodpecker which was pretty cool. He was so loud, bashing his little beak against a hard tree!! Must have a strong neck!

The second hike at Beaver Pond nearly didn’t happen (a little bit of feet-soreness whining on Will’s behalf), but lucky I bullied him into it, cos we struck the wildlife jackpot! Coming around a corner, a lady stopped us and said to be really quiet because there was a moose! Across from the water there was a moose mumma and her calf! It was awesome! She was wandering around the edge of the water and we took a load of photos. Then Will spotted two funny looking rocks a little further up from the moose and we realised they were beavers! One took off into the water, but the other one stayed and moved around a little! A bit far away for a good picture (where’s that zoom lens when we need it), but it was still pretty exciting!! Made our sojourn into Algonquin Park well worth it!! That takes our moose count to 3 and beavers to 2. Yay!