Fairy Lake is within the Gatineau Park. So is another well know lake, Meech Lake. We chose to go to Fairy Lake because it was closer to the Pioneer trail we had just completed.
We may have turned right when we should have turned left so we ended up on a paved trail.
Once high rise apartments, these are now low rent town houses.
Once there was electric power in this neighbourhood but I guess someone stopped paying the bills.
There are a few dangers the hiker has to be aware of, Poison Ivy and bicycles.
But like almost anywhere, you are likely to run into wild turkeys.
Love the photos of the abandoned electric systems. Nice post!
Isn’t it amazing what you find on a walk in the woods. Most of it is someone else’s discarded garbage. 🙁
Meech Lake? The Meech Lake of the Meech Lake accord? I remember visiting Vancouver in 1988 and that was all the talk on television. Sadly, as one of the many citizens of the United States who tend to have no clue about what is happening north of our border, I had never even heard of it. It’s a beautiful area, for sure, even with the speeding bicyclists.
Yes, that is what Meech Lake is famous for. It is usually a three word phrase as you said, “Meech Lake Accord”. It did get a lot of media time in Canada yet I will venture that most Canadians do not anything more about it than that. I had to google it myself to find out what it was about and was surprised to learn that it failed to be an accord. Yet here we are talking about something we heard about yet know nothing about. Isn’t that the way many conversations begin and end?
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That looks like a delightful walk, despite speeding bicyclists and poison ivy. The turkeys look as if they are involved in a Very Serious Conversation. I’d like to visit Meech Lake one of these days. I guess that I’d better work on my (almost nonexistent) French.
Seeing you photos made me want to go back to the mountains of Cherokee. They also have turkeys!