On the seventh day of the trip we left the city of Split and drove up to Plitvice Lakes National park and toured the park for a couple hours. The park is famous for its many lakes and waterfalls. They have 16 lakes in the park and each is a different level then the one bellow it so the water gets to the next lake by waterfall. The waterfalls in the most case are not huge but maybe on average two meters tall. The tallest one i saw was maybe 30 meters tall and that was going straight down a cliff. The park is a UNESCO world heritage site and was created in 1949. It is home to European brown bears, wolfs, deer and many other small mammals it has many birds and is mostly beach forest. It was by far my favorite place of the trip even better then Dubrovnik. The water in this park is stunning it is blue as all get out and so clear. There are also so many fish in the water because people are not aloud to fish or swim in these lakes.
My longest back country camping trip this year was into Algonquin Provincial Park. I went from September 16-19, 4 days and 3 nights. Originally my plan was to stay until the 20th but circumstances forced me to change my original route. Originally, I had planned on going from the Shall Lake Access Point(17) to Godda Lake for one night, then head down to Boot Lake for two nights, up to Booth Lake for one night, then home. However, during my first day, I realized that I had overestimated my capability to portage with a 75 pound canoe, and I had planned too long of a route. I altered my plans and instead spent two nights on Godda Lake and one night on Booth Lake. Day 1: I got to the access point at 11:10am and had everything unpacked and loaded into the canoe by 11:25am. I made my way through Farm Lake (which has super clear water) to the first portage into Kitty Lake. The portage was only 100M and was the first of the trip. It took 10 minutes to double carry. I was able to do t...
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