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) 

River, Otter and Canada Geese photos

I posted my video of the otters sliding along the ice, playing, harassing the Canada Geese! I took 178 photos on our drive yesterday. It was a wonderful trip, getting out and about. A dark day, the photos are not as bright as they could be, but the antics of the otters were priceless.

I stopped the car, spotting the geese on the open water on Skootamata. In the background, I noticed the otters have a grand play. There were three. Two of them went into the water and were swimming about, almost nipping at the heels of the geese. Joyful spring fever!
Here are the photos...

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