River Otter Quest – part III

 I know you are anxious to see how we did on our quest! 😜It was a failure for otter hunting. We have to see the positive, though. It is lovely seeing the open water, the old barns, interesting homes. 

I agree with JB, the place we were looking for is like Brigadoon, and only appears in odd years. This was it, and we cannot find it.

2013

We kept on driving. The Skootamata river, thought to come from Ojibwa words meaning 'burnt shoreline,' is a lovely river.

Look at the open water! YIPPEEEEEEE!!!! 

This was a delightful little river, with a quaint sign. It is, indeed, crooked!

The Mazinaw-Lanark County Forest was impacted by the tornado in July, 2022. (I wrote about that yesterday.) It is a sustainable forest on Crown Land.

Here is a wrap-around deck, which JB loves. 

Flinton is a town that celebrates the bike trails in Lennox and Addington. You can download a map of the trails. They are closed, due to the tornadoes.

It was time to head back home along Highway #7. I had numb bum! 

This must be an old root cellar.

Lots of posts need repair. Victims of winter incidents.

But the rocks, without snow! Hooray for spring!

We arrived home, after the 3-hour marathon. Happily, hubby went out and bought me a Hawaiian pizza, and himself a vegan one. I didn't have to cook. His first since he was diagnosed with dairy, yeast and egg intolerances. He enjoyed it!

My late client, who passed away during COVID, used to complain about the hours she would have to stand and watch food cook. I often think of her. I loved her. She had a passel of kids in her day. I stand at the stove and think of the times we laughed.

Just for fun, here are the river otters from 2013

 Hubby made me get out of the house that day. Said I needed a change of scenery. We went looking for birds and open water. We found otters (3, methinks) bugging the Canada Geese!

Otters at Buttermilk Falls from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

This was on our dock! I video the ducks in spring before the vernal pond dries up. The otters did not hang around, as they are river otters, not lake otters! 😉

River otters from Jennifer Jilks on Vimeo.

Other otter travels:

• We went looking for otters! Part I (2023)
• River Otter Quest – part II (2023)
• Friday, March 11th: a quest (2016)
• River, Otter and Canada Geese photos (2013) 

Friday, March 11th: a quest

Yes, a quest. I was interested is figuring out where we spotted some otters,  [River, Otter and Canada Geese photos] in April, 2013. I try to include photos of the GPS, to help me remember where we were. I knew it was the same day we'd seen this memorial, on highway 29 in Flinton. [Skootamata River - bridge and roadside memorial near Tweed]

Hubby was sure the otters were on Myers Cave Rd [sic– the lack of apostrophe irks me!]. I was certain about the location of the memorial, so I drove us there, first. Then back-tracked to Tweed, where we had lunch. After a nice lunch in Kellys (fitting for March!) we changed drivers and perused the map, for the umpteenth time. The map drove me nuts, as it is an old one, and while we don't have any new roads in the region, it was falling apart at the seams. Do you know what I mean? Then, what we were looking for, or thought we were looking for, was on the edge of the map. Now we know where it is. There were no otters, as the bay was frozen. We'll retry in a couple of weeks.
We were successful in finding birds. As we were on our way to Flinton, JB was so proud of himself as he spotted some birds. Several Canada Geese and a few Golden Eyes.

 Flinton 

 

The memorial and rickety stone bridge, with signs of a beaver!


Another roadside memorial


The ice on the rocks are intriguing!


Myers Cave Rd. –quite frozen.

A dog or a miniature horse?!