Foam Lake MB to Prince Albert SK

I missed mentioning a stop at Russel MB yesterday (Sunday). We needed an early afternoon break, and found a nice little town park in Russel. Peace Park was free for picnicking and for overnight camping, most sites with electric hookup (donation requested for camping). We didn't stay there but had a nice siesta.

At the entrance to the park was this unique cycle:

It was built (and rebuilt) to set a Guinness record but alas did not stand up to the stresses of 40+ cyclists. It's hoped someone will pick up the challenge one day.

Monday Jul 30
It was a very quiet night in the Foam Lake campground. There were some big rigs there in another section of this small cg. We had an electric hookup but didn't use it. This reduced the price from $25 to $15 for the night.

This area is important for migratory birds apparently, especially the nearby Quill Lakes. We tried to get to some viewing areas, but couldn't as the water levels were too high, flooding the access roads. Lots of large mosquitoes back there though! Maybe it's just as well we couldn't get to the viewing areas.

We were heading for Saskatoon today, hoping for a tour of the Pleasure-Way van factory there. When we called about a tour though, we found the plant is shut for their 2-week summer shutdown. Some travel days are like this eh.

We decided to head for Prince Albert National Park instead, as we had never been there before. We were on hwy #2 for quite a ways on our way to Prince Albert the town. It was quite rough in spots, nice drive but poor road surface.

This old barn has wet feet. High water mark is even higher than today.

Along the way we stopped at a large grain elevator and watched a "little" grain transport truck being loaded up:

See the truck at the base of the concrete silos?

The double-trailer transport looked pretty small compared to silos

Also along the way we noticed some structures in several fields. They seem about the size of calf boxes, but I'm pretty sure that's not what they were. There are many of them, scattered all over the field. Anyone have any ideas?

It looks like aluminum pie plates hung in the doorways, maybe to discourage birds from entering?

We managed to get a site in Prince Albert National Park for 2 nights, we'll see how it goes after that. 

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