My Birthday Trip- Day 3

 We started early because we needed to get to the Preserve before dark as absolutely no white light is allowed and that includes car lights.

We stopped at the Anishnabe Trading Store, where I met this fellow. From the outside it didn't look that big but inside it was huge.  As you can see behind him there is a lot of stuff.

We also stopped at the Iroquois Cultural Centre. Being in there was deeply moving like being in a holy place. I didn't get any pictures because it felt wrong to do so.

We stopped at Bridal Veil Falls. The climb down wasn't too bad but the walk back up was murder on my lungs. This was taken about half-way down I think.

I had planned to sleep in one of these but I'm glad we changed our mind, the teepee doesn't have a floor. Instead we stayed in a bunkie. 

Two rooms and no heat, also no running water or indoor toilet so we had to use a outhouse. That wouldn't have been so bad but the outhouses were set 25 yards or so from the bunkie. Not fun when you know you are gonna need to go out in the middle of the night.

What follows is a small Gallery of what we saw that night. I understand the lights were so bright they could be seen in Peterborough but to be so close... nothing compares.

I hope you can see these images it was beautiful because we were in a slight bowl and it surrounded us and arched over us so beautifully.

I went out to use the outhouse around 2 am and I wish I had brought my phone with me because the sky was breathe taking. The clouds had moved on and the northern lights had gone back to sleep, the sky was like blue-black velvet set with millions of tiny lights. 

Like this but because of where the Bunkie was the stars made a bowl overhead. I really wish I had gotten a photo.

I am glad we brought extra blankets there was frost in the morning and the night was cold even though we were fully dressed under the blankets.

The next day we swore to each other that we would travel earlier in the year, the night was cold and there was nobody else near us. While I'm usually a fan of that but I wished I had someone besides E to share the wonders of the night with it was that wondrous.