Prairie Schooner

We have internet now, but only by sitting outside the campground office. Here's where we've been over the past few days:

Here's a shot of some mini houses I saw beside the Glowing Embers campground in Acheson (I forgot to add it fofr the Acheson post). There was no sign to indicate what they were for, perhaps they're going to add wheels and market them as economy RVs?  :-)

We arrived at the Saskatoon campground on Wednesday to quite a stiff breeze. Because of this, and the resultant swaying of all the trees, the wifi was pretty much unusable (seems to be the common denominator on this trip). Throughout our stay, the wind only let up late at night.

We're into our "drive every other day" schedule now. We decided to spend the day here wandering the trails of the Meewasin River, and caught some caches while we were there (of course). Here's a shot of one of the typical trails we enjoyed.

Barbara was quite interested in all the pelicans that were in the river, and roosting on an island in the middle. We got several pix, but of course they were on the camera, not the phone (camera has 20x zoom), so I can't upload them yet. Here's a pic of the spillway, though, which gives a sense of the width of the river.

A little way upstream we came across a paddlewheeler.

We would have gone for a trip, but its sailings were going to be too late for us. Next time. It reminded me of the paddlewheeler in New Orleans that I didn't go on, either.  :-)

One of the caches we found was in the middle (literally) of a stone sculpture at the foot of a bridge. Yes, it was actually =in= the sculpture, not under it! It took us a few minutes to find this one, the camouflage was so good. And the whole time we had to pretend to be admiring the work rather than searching for something (in it for the art, not the cache) so as not to attract muggles (non game players who sometimes vandalize caches).

On Friday morning, we pushed off for Yorkton SK. It was the shortest drive so far, only 3.5 hours, but we stopped for picnic along the way. It's a city run campground, and as I said at the top, we have to sit outside the tiny office to get wifi (and then it is S-L-O-W). We're spoiled at home with our high speed I think.

Today (Saturday), we had a nice long walk around the lake that we're camped beside, and picked up a cache on a spit of land that sticks out into the lake. After lunch, we toured a local museum that was very interesting. Kim especially enjoyed the farm machinery scattered around the grounds.

I thought that second one, the combine, looked like a giant insect.

Tomorrow we head off to a suburb of Winnipeg, Ile Des Chenes.