The weekend before last was St Jean-Baptiste weekend, or Quebec's national holiday. K found a great way for us to go camping. It's called Huttopia, and it's basically pre-pitched tents. We went along to the site at Parc National de Plaisance, on the Ottawa river. It was tremendous fun, the girls loved every minute, as did K and I. Definitely something we'll look into doing again.
The park is situated on a bunch of little islands, which is great for
going on boats, wandering round the march, seeing beavers (although we
missed them) and playing in the water. The only down side was the
mosquitoes, although all our bites seem to be healed now.
I was rather thankful we got to see as much wildlife as we did. After multiple visits to zoos and nature centres, where you get to see all the animals all the time, I was a little worried it would be an anticlimax in terms of the number of animals we saw. As it turned out, there was no worry, as the park was rife with marmots (which both girls tried to sneak up on at different times). Some woodpeckers (or as LP called them, wood peppers) decided to peck on a tree just outside our tent, and we saw planty of other bird life. And during our walk in the marshes we saw frogs galore, some fish, and a turtle.
Pics after the cut, as always, click to enbiggen.
