We've been travelling today through Duck Mountain Park, on an unmade road, which at times was rather slippy, from last night's downpour. But we've seen another bear, too quick for us again, he was into the woods before we could get the camera on. That's three now. And we have seen other interesting sights.
We caught sight of a moose cow and calf taking water at one of the lakes, just at the side of the road. This time we were quick enough to get a shot!
And then we saw a llama, or was it an alpaca, running down the road towards us. Not a usual sight in Canada, they certainly are not native here!
As we passed one of the small lakes we saw a beaver dam, they build these so that they can make the water deep enough for them to live in, in their lodges as below. Couldn't see anyone at home though, but we have seen beavers elsewhere.
Outside the parks we are still travelling through Manitoba farmland, vast fields of wheat, which is just starting to grow now. We spotted a very old type silo, in the 30's there were 1000's of these, but nowadays they have been taken over by modern metal ones of which there seems to be millions in this province.
And we have also had something of a disaster; when we were booking in at our motel for the night we had a downpour, which included hailstones as big as a fifty pence piece. Our car has suffered quite a number of dints unfortunately, sufficient to cost us our excess of $500. There will be a lot of insurance claims in this area. The hail covered the ground like snow, and water was running down the road like a river, so much that all traffic had to stop because they could not see. Ce'st la vie.....
A family of Canadian Geese taking an outing.
One of the larger modern grain stores, with a rail siding running through.
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