White Lake IV - A Work in Progress

Today is our last full day at White Lake Provincial Park and with breakfast over, while we were having our cup of coffee/tea we decided that we would walk the Tiny Bog Trail in the morning and after lunch we would go to on White Lake fishing.

The Tiny Bog Trail is 2.8 miles (4.5 km) in length, with a wide variety of terrain. The marshy areas would have a pathway made of wood planking, hard packed earth in other areas as well as a mix of pathways over rocks and around boulders as the trail goes up and downhill.

We weren't very far into the trail when we started to get into the marshy areas, where we went across a wooden path  followed by the hard packed earth trail and then another wooden path.

It wasn't long before we came to a spot on the trail where we could see a body of water edged on all sides by reeds, with a beaver lodge on the far side.

The trail continued with the terrain constantly changing and going up and down hill.

At the halfway point there was a lookout point with a bench, where you could catch glimpses of the lake below.















The trail continued through mainly forest, up and down hill, but in some areas there were large boulders scattered around here and there just sitting in among the trees.

They were probably carried there by glaciers millineia ago as they made their way across the Great Canadin Shield.

It wasn't long before we made it back to where the trail branched off and we returned to the car to go back to the campsite for lunch.

Before we made it there, Ron decided to follow a dirt road we hadn't been on to see where it went.

It was a good thing he did, as we found another place to launch the canoe into White Lake.

There was a quiet inlet with sheltered places that may be a good location for Ron to catch fish, without having to go to the boat launch and paddle a very long way to get here.

After having lunch we went back to the inlet and we got the canoe off the roof and into the water and Ron went fishing in the inlet and I stayed onshore and first went around and took a number of reference photographs.















I started my sketch by putting in the horizon line first. I added the land just above the horizon in the distance and gradually worked forward.

Next, I started putting in the islands on the right side of the lake, this was followed by the spit coming out from the left side.















It wasn't long before Ron came back into the inlet and moved slowly back and forth still trying to catch a fish.

I added a few coniferous trees onto the left side of the drawing.















As he made his next pass across the water in front of me, I decided to add him into the drawing.

On his last pass he almost caught a fish, just as he was bringing it into canoe it managed get free of the hook and back into the water.















It was time to go back to the campsite and after supper we enjoyed our final campfire.

Tomorrow, we pack up the few things that need to be tidied up and tied down and we will be on our way back to Chutes Provincial Park.