day 10 - still in Denare Beach, Amisk Lake, Saskatchewan
june 10th
(photo of me with Sarah Trevor by Andrew Voigt)
a long day exploring the nooks and crannies of downtown Flin Flon
(population 5,594) -
lunch at Mugsy's Restaurant, shopping at the Canadian Tire Store
(which secretly sells EVERYTHING and i didn't see a single tire),
Extra Foods (what is "extra" about food?) and the Orange Toad
(gently used books and speciality coffee and tea drinks).
we visited a first nations craft store in Creighton (population 1,502)
and i bought an exquisite carved soapstone bear fetish which i cannot
put down. Andrew got a dreamcatcher for the truck.
a minor disappointment: the dump was closed today.
by all accounts, the dump is a GREAT place to see bears.
we will go tomorrow for sure.
Thanks for the picture of the sister Andrew. I like it. This travel blog is great and I am getting a lot out of it. It is not quite as good as being there, but it is a close second.
ReplyDeleteHow did Flin Flon get its name?
ReplyDeleteOne of my FB friends just posted this. Perhaps you already knew:
ReplyDeleteThe town's name is taken from the lead character in a paperback novel, The Sunless City by J. E. Preston Muddock. A prospector named Tom Creighton found the book in the wilderness. The story is about a man named Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin, who piloted a submarine through a bottomless lake. Upon passing through a hole lined with gold, he found a strange underground world. (wikipedia)
apparently The Sunless City, itself, is dull as a doornail (please forgive me J.E. Preston Muddock) but Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin lives on in this small burg at the end of the road...
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