Days 11 (August 23 2016) Toward Cypress Hills

We leave Saskatoon around 9h30 am after having breakfast with Amélie, Colin and Victor. The boys are a bit sad to see us leave. We had quite a bit of fun together! It is overcast and today we will be sleeping in the Interprovincial Park of Cypress Hills. We head south - west and stop at Saskatchewan Landing Provincial Park. The rain is coming but we have time to view the exhibit at the visitor centre and take some pictures. That centre is an old hotel where travellers would stop. It is a very interesting valley where quite a bit of the Prairies travellers would transit and it was probably a hunting and fishing place for aboriginal people.

We continue and stop for lunch in Swift Current. We also do a stop at Best Buy to take care of intermittent problems with the wireless of my laptop… It has been raining at time but the sky has been very interesting along with the scenery. As we get closer to the park, it is clear that we will have more rain. The clerk at registration shows us where the campsite is and add: ‘I will not go tell you how to back up your trailer, I am not a camper’. Once we get there it is clear what she meant. Claude has to back ‘down’ between trees and at a steep incline and it is pouring down. We are at the lowest point of the campground! We do not have rubber boots but can settle without too much trouble. Rain continues during the evening and the night. Will we have to swim out of the trailer tomorrow?