Lez notes: yes Bobblehead Road. It is a good thing we do not plan to take the Schooner up this section of HWY 2! One county had a smoothly paved section, but the rest of the trip up to Kinuso was a test for the springs on Chuck.
As we travelled north from our Big Fish Bay campsite, it quickly became obvious where the 2011 Slave Lake fires traveled. The landscape of poplars is either flush with tall green trees or it is filled with much smaller tree growth and many tall white tree trunks of soot singed lower branchless dead poplar. The lakes are huge, the feeder water systems, such as the Swan River, are many and meandering. The travel through this region of mid-northern section of Alberta is a lesson in topography, forestation, watersheds, the harmony of nature. It is vast, it it is raw, it is peaceful and it is beautiful. The beaches are inviting, the shacks by the sea are plenty and plenty big! We found a cool fixer-upper - a hotel from the 20's, had us both remembering the TV show Newhart.
And in the middle of all this beauty, I receive a text from friend Gabi who lives in Germany! We recently re-connected and we chatted back and forth as I overlooked the shores of Slave Lake!