We've had a good day in Riding Mountain National Park, we've seen Bison, squirrels, deer, but most exciting of all, two bears.
One, a ginger one but still one of the black bear genus, was too quick for us, before we could get the camera to 'bear' he was gone into the woods. Later we saw him again, but far into the woods and just un-photographable. But we caught this one as he tried to escape to the woods, albeit a long way away.
We had been wanting to see a bear since we arrived in this country, so to see two......
There are very few bison left here now, in this park there are just 40 kept in a large drive through paddock, so large in fact that we could only snap this one, and he was lying in the long grass.
Before Europeans arrived the plains here teemed with millions of them, in the middle of the last century the population was down to 100, but has recovered to around 40,000 now.
On the way up here, on a road with very little traffic, we came up on a jam- the road was blocked by a house. It was being moved over a bridge, with maybe one inch clearance underneath it at one point. However when it got across the bridge he was travelling at 50 mph! There was no way past it, but fortunately it turned off after a few miles.
This is a very agricultural area, huge fields and multiple grain silos dot the plains. This is the bread basket of Canada, and a lot of the bigger silos are serviced by railways to carry the grain to market.
Looking down from the edge of the park we could see the fields for miles, not a brilliant picture but it may give you some idea.
Our little house in the forest.
A decorated 'Moose' in the village.
The house eventually turned off the road
This road is dead straight for miles, look for the dust from a car at least a mile down.
A stream in the Park.
There are wolves in the park too- these are stuffed or we wouldn't be so close to them!
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