Re: Back from Algonquin Park
Originally Posted by
pixie
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we went up there a few years ago amazing place sutch wilderness we went to penbrook the weather has been wonderfull did you see any black bears
Hi Ann - no, but there was a "Bear in Area" warning sign at the gate when we checked in. We kept all foodstuffs and even toothpaste in the bear-proof barrel which my brother-in-law hoisted up over a tree limb about 20 ft off the ground every evening. We also take pepper spray just in case, and wear bells if hiking away from the site. My OH jokes that the bears call the spray 'seasoning'.
We once had a moose wander past in the shallows at dawn but otherwise only see squirrels, rabbits, and sometimes beavers and loons on the lake. The silly loons are nocturnal - they woke us every night with their calling!