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Pastimes : Canoes, Hiking, the Great Outdoors

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To: AugustWest who wrote (210)	8/13/2001 11:20:44 AM
From: Crocodile	of 325

Bonnechere River Trip Report: Well, we did manage to get out paddling on the Bonnechere River yesterday. It's up the valley, north of our place. The river is probably about 75 miles long with its source within Algonquin Park. We wanted to explore the last section of it before it reaches the Ottawa River. We parked at a boat launch which the powerboat people use to access the Ottawa, and then paddled upstream on the Bonnechere. The Bonnechere runs through predominantly pine, cedar and spruce forests. There are occasional beaver lodges or food storage branch heaps along the riverbanks. The geology along the river is predominantly limestone. In fact, upriver, there are karst-type caves going into the riverbanks (the Bonnechere Caves). Yesterday, the most interesting encounter was with a pair of reasonably large pike that were sunning themselves in very shallow water among the Arrowhead plants. I think we took them by surprise as they made quite a splash as they scudded forward to get away from the canoe. We met them again on our way back downstream...under almost the same circumstances. We could only trip upstream for about 3/4 of an hour as we somewhat unexpectedly encountered some rather rugged and impassable waterfalls and decided not to try to portage above them on this trip. They were quite beautiful though, so it was worth making the short paddle upstream to see and photograph them. Saw several young Mallard ducks paddling around below the falls area as well. Darned nice day even if the trip wasn't particularly long. I have a couple of more trips lined up for this week already... yippee!! (o:

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