Eric Praetzel - La Verendrye QC Canoe Camping

September 2014 La Verendrye Trip

loop 33

 day 1 Mon - highway 28 2nd put-in, 1:55pm paddled Grand Lk 2.5km + small lakes 8km Nizard Lk   to site 34 52 (4:45 pm, wonderful shallow sandy beach) = 10.5km

 day 2 Tues - 7:20am 7km from Nizard to Tambour Lac de la Table Lac Cabanac ... Lac Byrd  + 1km + 7km + ~5km to site 33-71 (2:30pm) = 20km

 day 4 Thur - 8:22am paddle13km to Lac Grand + 2.5km - take canoe out (12:45pm) = 15.5km
   - at site 30-31 9:57am

   - from Le Domaine (2:40pm) paddle checking out sites 10-91, 10-87 and settled on 10-22 6km (3:48pm), plus ~ 4km at night


 park maps are odd - indicated distances are not consistent by string measurement - features are also unusual and hard to navigate by at times

Landscape pictures with the Sony camera often requires adjusting the exposure because the image starts where the image is brighter or darker than the majority of the panorama

lots of dead trees lining Lac Grand - as if it's water level rose around 20 years ago and killed trees on the edge and then receeded again

Links

http://www.parkerclan.ca/maps/85map4.jpg

http://www.parkerclan.ca/85map.php

http://www.sepaq.com/resources/docs/rf/lvy/lvy_carte_generale.pdf

http://www.canot-camping.ca/english/index.asp

http://www.canot-camping.ca/english/index.asp?id=169

http://www.parkerclan.ca/laverendrye.php

http://www.myccr.com/canoedb/routeDetails.php?routeid=829  Circuit 63

http://www.canada.com/story_print.html?id=8849567d-c553-4d02-b125-4fe78da0202d&sponsor=

Day 1

Day 2

Movie - Leech swimming1

Here is the non-portage way to get past a road:

So help me the tallest tree, in the center, looked like a dragon when we were paddling:

Day 3 - Wednesday

8:05am paddle 13.5km thru Lac Paget+ 8km + 4km to site 30-50 (very nice on a small island) on Lac Nichcotea (3:15pm) = 25.5km (Portage 11:45am, )

Here is the effect of stopping down, reducing the light. It works well for sunrise/set pictures as it makes it more the way you see it. Without doing this the camera will try to make the image as bright as a daytime image and wash out the reds.

Normal picture:

One step darker:

-2 or two steps darker:

Here is the sunrise: with one shot at 6:17am and the second (sun is just rising) at 6:47am):

These pictures are the same - the first taken with my older 8MP Cannon PowerShopt A590 IS (1/640 sec, ISO 80, f/4) and the second with the 16MP Sony DSC-WX50(1/160 sec, ISO 100, f/8). The sony has a wider field of view.

Day 4

This movie was made just after arriving at the campsite. It was the one day when we had a tailwind and it was a bit choppy. Some of the headwinds we had on other days involved small white caps but nothing as bad as the battles we had in Algonquin Park in 2013.
> Lake view choppy water