snow and ice in a Crevice mid june


mirroring lake


sun cloud


screenporch view


11pm light


day 16 - LAST DAY AT DENARE BEACH
june 16

tidying up to leave tomorrow.
then an extraordinary run down a dirt road in the truck that Buz inherited from Russell (half a truck really as it's shared) to see the CREVICES which are YOUNG ROCK, weighing in at a mere 1.5 million years old. at the bottom of many are ICE AND SNOW even though today was a broiling 90 degrees.
most of the rock around here, what northern Saskatchewan and Manitoba rest on, is called The Canadian Shield and is a mind-boggling 3 billion years old. that is a lot of zeros.

after the Crevices, we went to Shelburne River and six white pelicans were standing in the river, looking like swans (they are not nearly as prehistoric-looking as our brown pelicans in california), cleaning their luxurious long wings, surfing the current downstream then flying back up.

we ended up at Greg and Jan's place out on Birch Lake in time for a phenomenal thundershower with enormous lightning strikes landing closer and closer to the water, the sky dumping rain and then hail that was wild and timpany loud. very dramatic and a thrilling last evening to our Flin Flon experience.

we left at 11pm and there was enough stunning blue light in the sky to reflect the clouds in the lake.