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Moose Mountain and Moosomin, Saskatchewan
Posted by Jeff Hathaway on August 7, 2006 at 11:33 PM
We arrived in Saskatchewan Friday night, and went to Moose Mountain Provincial Park, which had a very nice campsite waiting for us. On the way out to Saskatchewan, we stopped at the Future Shop in Brandon, Manitoba, where I bought a laptop computer so that I can keep up with these dispatches once Megan leaves us this week. We're putting her on a bus in Swift Current so that she can get back to Ontario in time to start her Field Ecology course at Algonquin Park.
Since our Moose Mountain program wasn't until 7:30 (Saskatchewan time, which is another hour behind Manitoba (Central) time), we had a relatively relaxed day around the campsite, mostly setting up the new computer and transferring files from Megan's computer. We had just over 250 people show up for the program, which was a lot more than the park staff expected- not a surprise for us, as we frequently get pretty good turnouts for our programs! After the show, we went out on the town in Kenosee, the resort village by the park. We met up with some of the park staff, and some locals, and had an interesting evening! Annoyingly, however, someone stole one of the magnetic signs from the side of the van! If anyone around the Moose Mountain area can find our missing sign, we'd be very grateful- it's about $100 to replace it, which is $100 less towards the programs we're doing out here!
We couldn't sleep in too long Sunday morning, though, since we had to be packed up and on the road into Moosomin to be at the summer fireworks festival there. We had over 400 people out for the program at the festival, which is a pretty big group for the three of us to handle, but it went very smoothly. Too bad we couldn't hang around for the fireworks, but we had to get on the road for Cyprus Hills Interprovincial Park. As I write this, we're still about 3.5 hours away from the park, somewhere between Moose Jaw and Swift Current. A late night, but at least we can sleep in a bit before the show tomorrow.