Reptiles at Risk

Road Trip! Northern Route, Day 1

Posted by Jeff Hathaway on July 16, 2010 at 2:35 PM

Here we are, 7am, on the road to our first program of the Northern Ontario trip - Magnetawan! Though a little sleepy inside (and a little foggy outside) we are packed and ready to go. We will be spending about 3.5 weeks in Northern Ontario, traveling west to Sault Ste Marie, east to Timmins, and as far north as Moose Factory!

Brittany, Bryan and I make up the crew for this leg of our summer journey. Brittany is a University of Guelph student of wildlife and fine art (quite the combination!) who you may remember from our travels last summer. Her expertise have been invaluable in developing much of our program materials, including our reptiles at risk colouring pages and "Make your own Nature ID Books"! Bryan is another Guelph wildlife student who has joined us this year, with a farmboy background as well as many contacts in northern Ontario. His mechanical skills will be much appreciated in keeping Big Red (our van) and our trailer running smoothly!

The three of us are very excited to be hitting the road with this new program, and you will be hearing from all of us as the trip progresses! Don't forget the rest of the RAR crew at home - they are still working hard to book presentations and displays in Southern Ontario, and will be doing their own road trip to the Long Point, Chatham and Windsor area later in the summer. If any of you have events or venues in Southern Ontario that would work well for a program, please let us know!

Robin