Some wonderful new stories since last update:
Herbfest was absolutely lovely! Upon arrival we found the owner of the property (the Herb Garden), and Herbfest director, Gerry who had set us up with a large tent to keep our reptile friends cool. Lucky for us it wasn't as humid as the few days before. We wrangled up crowds of over 100 at each of our two shows, despite some unhappy campers who jumped at the sight of snakes around our necks as advertised through the crowds. But it wasn't the shows that we remember most about that day...
After completing our shows we adopted two kids from the tent across from us whose parents owned the Cheshire Cat Pub. The kids, Deacon and Arlow, were very interested in the snakes and helped us to tidy up and put them all to bed. We then sent them on a mission to catch as many grasshoppers as possible! They caught a lot, which we fed to our turtles :) In thanks we gave them each a snakeskin, and in thanks to us for babysitting their parents gave us a bottle of wine... so nice!
But that was just a start to the night and two lovely volunteers: Rob and Kara invited us over to use their pool and canoe if we wanted to. We accepted the invite and got a lovely lift to his house in his ATV and trailer. Upon arrival to their house saw a disc golf course set up in their backyard. Rob was a frisbee salesman (www.ultimatediscgolfstore.ca) and I bought a lovely frisbee for a gift. We spent a couple hours at their place hanging out. It was so nice to get away from our trailer for a while! When we got back to our campsite their was a box of avocados sitting at our trailer door Mmmmm.
Since then we have been at Renfrew Public Library and Pembroke Library. We have also been to 2 more provincial parks: Driftwood and Algonquin!
We also got our Wood Turtle- Ash to join our tour on Monday! He has been lovely to have around, and it is nice to learn about Ontario's most endangered Turtle.
It was really nice to have been hosted by Algonquin. It was a long drive in- which broke our radio :(- but well worth the drive. The park was beautiful and we had a wonderful audience! We also got lucky enough to hike along some trails yesterday and this morning before we leaving Algonquin.
We just finished a show at the Petawawa Library and have some time before our next one to update the outside world on our many adventures.
This is Katrina, signing out for now :)