Serendipity in Quetico Provincial Park
Quetico Provincial Park in Canada is a place I can find serendipity, or it finds me, at some point during a week fishing and canoeing. In fact, there is usually a moment every day where something happens like a double rainbow with a bald eagle flying through them, swimming in a pool in the middle of a waterfall, waking up in the middle of the night to the call of nature and have the northern lights be your flashlight, seeing a moose, or catching a tasty walleye, bass, or northern pike.
Seeing a bull moose close up wading in a pool is definitely a dose of serendipity
Fly Icarus Fly is hosting another installment of the Travel Photo Roulette with this week’s theme being serendipity. Congratulations to Fly Icarus Fly for winning the 52nd installment of the blogger competition relay with his beautiful picture of a very interesting face.
The definition of serendipity is “the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.” This leaves a lot up to interpretation. For me, and those who love the outdoors, while fishing and canoeing in Quetico Provincial Park serendipity is like the first solution of any geometry problem: it is a given.
Wading in the Louisa Falls in Quetico Provincial Park
When you have clear crystalline blue water so pure you can drink it straight from the lake along with unspoiled fishing in the great northwoods of Ontario, Canada it is hard to go wrong. The lead picture, and my entry for the competition, comes from the very heart of the park near the northern end of Lake Kawnipi.
This begs the question is it still serendipity if you know the development and occurrence of cool things will happen? I think the first rule of serendipity is you do not question it. You ride the good feeling and enjoy.
I caught a decent sized northern pike and a smallmouth bass in MacVicar Bay. I put them up on the rock for cleaning, and they soon became dinner. Fresh shore lunch in a wilderness setting with hardly anyone around is the definition of serendipity in my dictionary. As many people once said, and a good portion of that many were having fresh fish in the wilderness: “it doesn’t get any better than this.”
Stay tuned,
TT
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I love that pic of you in the waterfalls! What a beautiful place!
Andi of My Beautiful Adventures recently posted..San Francisco & Napa Valley: Day 3 (Part 2)
Thanks Andi,
I missed not being there this year. I hope to make it back in the next year.
Great photo story…good times..
Cheers..
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That moose picture is awesome! Can you believe I’ve never been to Canada? TBEX will be my first trip.
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Leah,
I have actually never been to a Canadian city before. Toronto will actually be my first.
It looks like a perfect day to me. Shore lunches with fresh fish are a real treat in northern Ontario. And so is swimming in clean water . Lucky you.
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That is what serendipity is all about: being lucky and knowing it.
I always love your photos!! Was the waterfall cold??
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Yes, it was kind of cold. It was in the low 70s Fahrenheit (21 degrees Celsius), so a little cool to be swimming. I did not know when I might return, so I had to take a dip. It was not so bad once I got in.
I’ve been to Canada a few times but it’s only been cities. Need to see some of the beautiful outdoors there.
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I am the opposite. Toronto will be my first Canadian city.
Your pictures are beautiful, as always. The moose photo is one of my favorites. What a great time!
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It always is a great time camping and fishing in Canada. Even better when moose are involved. It has been awhile since I have seen one as the last two trips we were skunked on the moose front.
OMG a moose! That’s so cool, I’ve always wanted to see a moose.
They are amazing creatures. I have been fortunate to see quite a few camping, fishing, and skiing in northern Minnesota.
i recently read that if you’re pursued by an angry moose, get behind a tree…. apparently they’re so gangly that they can’t navigate their way around the trunk? can you confirm this? because it really makes me want a knobbly kneed moose friend, a la bullwinkle.
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I cannot confirm it firsthand as I have never been chased, but if one of these behemoths was after me it sounds like a good strategy. I came whirling around a corner cross-country skiing and a moose was in the middle of the path. My strategy there was to crash. It worked as he ran away instead of running after me. That is the closest I have ever been to having to use the hide behind a tree method.
I love the picture of the moose! Lovely place. I suppose I should explore Canada besides Montreal & Toronto, which has been my go-to location.
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I am looking forward to checking out Toronto for the first time. The only city I have been to in Canada was Windsor, and that did not really count.