Camping at Horsefly Lake Provincial Park

 We camped for 3 days att Horsefly Lake Provincial Parkwith 2 other couples.  It was fairly smoky but we managed to have a good time.

We hiked up the short trail to the viewpoint.

Pretty smoky

We saw this Orchid on the trail:

We also paddled down the Little Horsefly River into Little Horsefly Lake,

Margaret goes under the bridge

Where We saw a group of 30 merganser ducklings. The river and the lake are perfectly clear with a nice pebbled bottom (good for spawning salmon) so we could see fish swimming underneath us.  There's not much current so it was easy to paddle back upstream.

Meanwhile Leo was paddling down the Horsefly River with Kelly, who was celebrating his 51st birthday, and his family.  Later they brought cheesecake to celebrate!

Kelly and family with the cake.

It was delicious.

We also got a few refreshing swims in.  Despite the hotspell, Horsefly Lake is not yet bathtub warm like some other local lakes.  It's a big lake.

Lastly, the standard shot of the trailer we take everywhere we camp.

We lucked out and there were three unreserved campsites in a row available when we arrived.  The campsites here are smaller and closer together than is usual for a provincial park.  We were glad we were butted up against friends.  There's also overflow camping in a parking lot which is useful information if you're traveling without reservations.  One thing that annoys us is the prime lakeside sites are always reservation only sites now.  You can camp in unoccupied ones for one night but you may have to vacate the next day.