55.3Kms
After breakfast from a big rock over the Lake, we rode an 11.5Kms circuit to try to rent a canoe for the afternoon, but there was a staff shortage at the outfitter so they could not get the gear to us. From 10am until the early afternoon, Y participated in a pine needle workshop (B had seen a camp flyer and suggested it the evening before) with Friends Of Quetico artist-in-residence Val Fraser, while B did bike care and explored the lake shore with his camera. Singularly, we discovered when we were looking at photos from our day that at virtually the same moment Y was completing her pine needle project, B was photographing a tree shelf conch and the two are compellingly similar in form, colour and value. Val explained the funding of the AiR program is from a dinner in the fall, with an auction of one donated piece from each of the season's Artists. The art works can be previewed in a growing display at the Park pavilion during the Park May-September season. At 2:30pm we made the decision to move from our lovely site at Quetico, as we still had not heard back from Mine Centre. If closed for the season, we would need to ride 200Kms to Fort Francis, so we rode in the early evening to Atikokan (Canoe capital of Canada), so we have about 150Kms tomorrow. We had a lovely day and are happy with our decision.

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