Monday, June 27, 2011

Kakisa for the day

Well bright and early this morning Glen and I set out for a meeting in Kakisa. We made pretty decent time and saw tons of bison and baby bison - so cute. Around Chan Lake we hit some dense smoke from the fires, but survived.
We arrived in Kakisa, stopped at Lady Evelyn Falls to poke about. That's where we'll be camping in a couple weeks, super nice, but DISGUSTING bulldogs (stouts/horse flies). We had our little meeting with the chief and two elders and confirmed our date for coming back for work. We examined the shore line of the mouth of the Kakisa River and Glen gave me some methodology lessons.
We left and made our way back to town, stopped at Dory Park for a quick look around because Glen had read about some surface sites there from the 60's, but we couldnt find anything, and got accosted by flies.
On our way back past Chan Lake we encountered the smoke again and could see it smouldering on the side of the road.
We made it back to town perfectly fine and overly exhausted.
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