June 15, 2005

June 15, 2005

West Hawk Lake day 29 of 113

DAY 363

 

Finally ... a warm, sunny day. First time I've been able to wear shorts since ... February ! HA HA HA ! ! ! Saw 11 deer today. Limited out at Star Lake tonight. Four walleye in an hour and three quarters. Guess I'll be able to feed pickerel to our friends Erbon and Lorraine Dickinson when they come out from Ottawa in about a month to visit us.

The vet in Kenora phoned this morning. Teddy's blood tests show an extremely high level of thyroid hormone. He's got hyperthyroidism, all right. He'll have to be given medication twice a day. She'll mail the prescription to Winnipeg and we'll pick it up at Sharon's next week.

I did a bunch of chores outdoors this morning. It was so great to be out working in the sunlight. After lunch we decided to go on a tour of the fish hatchery located on the Whiteshell River between Caddy Lake and West Hawk Lake. It was interesting. It's been operating since 1942. They are hatching and rearing mostly trout and some walleye for stocking. From the hatchery we decided to drive just a few more miles east and see Ingolf, Ontario again. Elvira the Maintenance Supervisor here at West Hawk lives at Ingolf. Ingolf is a cottage community on Long Pine Lake. She told me there was another lake across the CP main tracks that run beside Ingolf called Macara Lake. We drove across the CP main tracks and found just a path into the bush. I switched Dee-Dee to 4 x 4 mode, shifted into low gear, and headed off into the bush. We're really impressed with Dee-Dee's capabilities for off roading. A short distance into the bush down this trail brought us to Macara Lake, a lovely little lake. Well, actually, all the lakes around here are quite beautiful. This part of the rugged Canadian Shield country is very attractive to us. We drove back to the CP tracks, and Ingolf, then headed back towards Caddy Lake. We had to cross the temporary repair on Hwy. 312 between Ingolf and Caddy Lake where the road was washed away last week when a beaver dam broke. We drove up the access road on the east side of Caddy Lake to see Green Bay Cabins, a small resort and trailer park. We've never been to the east side of Caddy Lake before.

On the way back through West Hawk townsite I stopped at Major's Service Centre to buy fishing worms and leeches. They had "green" worms, which are night crawlers injected with a small amount of nitrogen. Itturns the worms fluorescent green, and enhances their visibility to fish. Cool ! I bought some. They certainly worked well tonight.

Back at the trailer, we spent the balance of the afternoon and the early part of the evening working on cleaning and waxing Harvey. We're almost done. Maybe one more day of working on it. We're almost finished the fifth and last bottle of the bug and tar remover / wax that we're using. I'm not sure we'll have quite enough to finish. While we were working on Harvey, the axeless couple walked by. They were the only other campers here today. They had walked to a nearby lake to do some fly fishing. Apparently, he caught a Manitoba Master Angler sized trout both today and yesterday. I don't know why they walked all the way to the lake that they were fishing at both today and yesterday. I haven't walked all the way to the back of the campground where they're camped, so I don't know whether they have a car or not. Maybe they hiked in or biked in.

We barbecued for supper, then I went fishing to Star Lake. They sure were biting tonight !

Life is good !

DSK