09 Little Buffalo River
Trip Start
May 04, 2009
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Trip End
Oct 15, 2009
Where I stayed
Little Buffalo River Territorial Campground
Dawson Landing, Northwest Territories, Canada
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
We launched our kayaks (numerous times) and paddled down the Little Buffalo River for our first glimpse of Great Slave Lake -- it is huge, being the second largest lake wholly within Canada (28,438 square kilometres and over 2,000 feet deep). Cindy and Bogie fished and caught a Pike (released) and a Whitefish that escaped.
Visited Fort Resolution, which is twenty kilometres from our campsite and the longest occupied town in NWT, to try and find ice - we failed. Fort Res (as locals call it) is the end of the road and not much of a town at all -- surprising that the 650 people stay here with no real stores but there are lots of tribal offices and recreation facilities.
Great Slave Lake can become very rough quickly as we found out on our last day as a quick storm blew up (giving me some time to organize recent pictures and notes) but paddling up the river and on the lake during calm weather is a delight. The Eureka four-man tent got beat-up badly in the wind and rain -- the fly now needs duct tape in a couple of places and a couple of bent poles will need straightening..
Will head for the Mackenzie River area tomorrow after a quick stop in Hay River for their library internet service.
Tidbits:
- A new tent is now on my wish list…
- Interesting that there seems to be fewer hawks here; I think it has something to do with the owls hunting in daylight (and the limited night) in the far north.
