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Peace River
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And a couple of days in Peace River, a fine campsite, free, only 10 minutes from the Lions Campsite in Peace River, a sordid affair filled with RV's, children running around in wet nappies, no trees unless you count the weeds which were over 3 feet tall, no room for trees with all the RV"s and trailers, an empty campsite backing onto a pile of trash, garbage bags, discarded benches, this a paid site, it reminded me of a San Paulo ghetto, we took our chances and drove 10 KM up the road...
This was free, and we had it all to ourselves.
12 Foot Davis, read more on him here: http://mightypeace.com/places/sights-experiences/12-foot-davis-site/ & here: http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/henry-fuller-davis/
The museum, small, filled with local rocks, fossils, artifacts, small but well worth the $2.00 admission, if only to whet my appetite for the treasures we wouldn't be finding...
A tugboat ferry, classic...
And the view:
A misty morning. There were 10 thousand of these photos on the way to Grande Prairie, the thick fog cutting the visibility, foreshortened horizons, fields of corn, vast farms, and no people..."Don't pay the ferryman...". Not to worry, in Alberta it's free...
A reasonable detour past a washed out road.
And passing a merry spaceman. Just because it's northern Alberta...
Slave Lake
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A warm beach, but no incentive to stay...
North (or Vacation 1)
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The first leg of the prospecting vacation (less prospecting, more reconnaissance, too many places to dip a pan and the daughter won't stand for it, no one would, really, it's insane, I know, I know...). Edmonton, Peace River, Grande Prairie, Grande Cache, and then a long dusty wind along the trunk roads back. It's a big country, and these places I've not been for 30 years, awed by the scale of the coal mining, the Oil and Gas development, by the sheer impossibility of prospecting a single region of it, a full 4 months of summer would only touch upon a single area, I have easily a dozen to check...
The rest of the vacation, well, short notes beneath the images...
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