Posted by Kath on June 30, 2006, at 21:39:48
In reply to Re: I'm Back - saw foxes;snakes;heron;heard wolves » Kath, posted by Jay on June 29, 2006, at 21:00:20
Do you mean you don't like it that you've been there & have seen rattlers, or that you don't like going there because you know they're there?
I am really scared of them, but I've never seen one. I even walk on little narrow trails from the huge rocks to the privy & I thump on either side in front of me with a stick to scare any (what my friends & I as teens called) "snattles" (snattle rake) away!
Apparently no visitor to Killbear has EVER been bitten by a rattle snake. That's pretty encouraging.
My husband & I are going to our friend's cottage just outside Algonquin tomorrow, and we have the use of an Algonquin Park Pass - so can go as often as we want. Yay
The thing I like better about Killbear is the huge rock formations. Like Harold Point - it's just acres & acres of rock with some trees & shrubs, but Rock, rocks, rocks. I like that open feeling & being able to see far away.
Do you tent in Algonquin. I'm scared of bears, so that concerns me around Algonquin. Although a few years ago I saw 2 bears at Killbear, but they were definitely "garbage bears"....interested in people food - not people-as-food. Maybe the bears at Algonquin aren't interested in eating people either!!! I just get scared about it, so I'm a little nervous about this coming week!
Are you going to Algonquin this year?
Kath
> Killbear provincial park is beautiful, up near the shores of Georgian Bay (or not too far). I just don't like the snakes...the Massasaga Rattlers, so I go over to Algonquin. If the rest of the world could only see the hundreds of thousands of square miles of this,from coast to coast, I don't think they'd believe their eyes.
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