 Daily
Plan: 7:00 breakfast and break camp, 8:30 launch, 12 ish lunch
break, 3:00 set up camp, 6:00 dinner followed by evening relaxation,
reading, nature watching. Weather and water levels may modify itinerary.
- Day 1-Tuesday 9/6/05
Arrive before 2:00pm at Whitney, ON. Meet group, set up camp at Rock
Lake Campground within the park and pick up canoes and equipment.
Dinner will be at the campsite. If there is time we will visit the
Alqonquin Visitor Center nearby to give you an overall picture of the
park. Rock Lake campground has showers and flush toilets. Whitney, just
outside the park, is about 6 hours from Syracuse.
- Day 2-Wednesday 9/7/05
After a quick breakfast we will break camp, load canoes and launch on
our adventure right from the campground. We will enter Rock Lake after
a short stretch of the Madawaska River. Points of interest are the
remains of Barclay Estate (until 1953 owned by Judge George Barclay) on
the east shore and on the west shore Native American (Ojibwa)
pictographs. They have grown faint with age since their origin in the
1600’s when the Chippewa (Ojibwa) helped the Algonquins chase the
Iroquois out of the area. They resemble the red ochre pictographs found
in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Ontario’s Quetico Park where
the Ojibwa originated. After a very short portage we will enter Pen
Lake and set up our first camp and cook dinner and hang our bear bag
high before watching the sunset.
- Day 3-Thursday 9/8/05 Today
after breakfast and breaking camp, we start out on Pen Lake, portage
along the shallow Galipo River into Welcome Lake, then paddle to Harry
Lake and Rence Lake, where we will make our 2nd camp. These lakes are
prime fishing areas for heritage brook trout. Hopefully we will see
evidence of or site wildlife such as turtles, loons, beaver, otter,
mink, deer, wolf, moose, eagles, herons, mergansers and kingfisher.
- Day 4-Friday 9/9/05
Our third day on the water we will make a short portages to Frank and
Florence Lakes then a longer one into beautiful Lake Louisa where we
will explore its scenic shoreline looking for wildlife until we find
our 3rd campsite. Let’s hope to see the Northern Lights and hear wolves
howling or loons calling as we drop off to sleep.
- Day 5-Saturday 9/10/05
After breakfast and packing up we will continue our explorations/water
safari of Lake Louisa and when we have had our fill start the longest
portage (1.7 mi.) of the trip and return to Rock Lake Campground. We
will return canoes and equipment and establish the last camp where
showers and flush toilets will seem like a luxury. Our Farewell Dinner
(included) will be held at a restaurant, a short drive into Whitney.
- Day 6- Sunday 9/11/05 Today
we bid goodbye and return home unless extending the trip on your own.
Some may wish to return to the Visitor Center, Logging Museum or
hike/canoe some of the trails/lakes in the park before leaving. Meals
are on your own today.
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