Tuesday and a return trip to Gatineau Park. Last year we made a couple of trips to the park to wander around the lakes and some of the trails. This year I wanted to see some of the lakes we’d missed.

Sure, there are other lakes. Lake Fortune is huge. The ski-runs from Camp Fortune are adjacent to it, but you can’t get to the lake. It’s simply too steep to run steps or tracks down to the lake. You can only peer through the trees to glimpse it.

Lake Bourgeois is better, although you wouldn’t believe it, unless you were prepared to fight through the trees, bugs and undergrowth to get to the edge of this swampy lake. The park does intend people to walk down to the lake side. A few yards down from the parking area there are some steps, precariously perched at an angle, for one to venture down. Then it’s time to seek out the bare paths that others have trod to get down to the bottom:

It was a warm, sunny day, and all types of bugs were flying around including huge dragonflies which often bumped into us like little drunken helicopters.

Oh, and for those keeping track of my Dairy Queen obsession: just the one so far.

The weather is on the turn Wednesday, but on Thursday we’ll be visiting Morrisburg and Upper Canada Village towards the south of Ottawa.