Obatanga Provincial Park - Fishing

Pic #1: Lucy admiring her catch.

Pic #2: Walleye - 5 lbs and 2 lb fish.

Pic #3 & #4: Cooking the fish (2 of the 3 pan fulls).

As you might guess, Lucy is catching all the fish... yesterday it was one northern pike and another fish on, while today it was two walleye (one really nice size - 5 lbs.) and another northern pike. Today's pike was put back but we kept the two walleye. Fresh fish dinner...yummy it sure was good. Frank,'s role - drive the boat, do the navigating, clean the fish, cook the fish. Lucy's role is to catch the fish and prepare the fish fillets for cooking. We both did the eating!

Notice Lucy is wearing her winter jacket...July 18th... when will summer arrive?

Obatanga Provincial Park, Ontario

Pic #1: Welcome to Obatanga Provincial Park.

Pic #2: Campground roadway.


Pic #3: Beach Bench to enjoy.

Pic #4: Water so clear that what you see is the sandy bottom of the lake.

Pic #5 & #6: Typical beach front campsites (non-eletrical)

Pic #7: Our porta-bote parked on the beach...

Pic #8: Our campsite #55 (notice the length - lots of room for any size rig).

On our 2nd visit to this park this year, we got to explore this almost vacant park. Having stopped here a number of times over the years, we have always wondered why this park is never busy. Situated among 32 lakes and rivers, just metres off the main highway (#17), it is a gem. 140 campsites (20 electrical) and many pull thro sites. Electrical sites are away from the water front. Comfort station has new washers and dryers. As the pictures show, the beach is great, clean clear water for swimming, and many trees for shade on those hot days (have not seem many of those this year). Childrens play ground is nearby. Fishing - Walleye, Northern Pike, Speckle Trout are all here within the park. Canoe rentals available from the Park Office. As yet we have not seen any bald eagles, osprey or moose. Dump station is easily accessible coming into and leaving the campground area. Peaceful, scenic, good beach are words that best describe this place.

Neys Provincial Park - more pics.

Flowers, chipmunks, and people swimming in cold Lake Superior.

Neys Provincial Park, more views

July 13th after a very cool start to the day (+4 C), things turned out to be rather nice. Lots of sunshine, with people out walking; some sitting on lawn chairs enjoying the warm sun, and still others sitting in the shade enjoying a book. A walk down the beach was enjoyable.

The stones in the shape of a 'star' is along the walkway to the Visitor Centre. One of the stories about the star is that it is the location of the flag pole when the area was a PoW Camp.

Neys Provincial Park

We had to change campsites - moved from #15 to #16. Our view was actually improved and in addition to being able to enjoy the better view of the lake and the rolling waves, we can see into Prisoners Cove and that rock point is where the old wooden and decaying boats were pulled up. The temperature this visit has what most would refer to as cool... the past couple of morning the outside temperature was around the +4 C (and this is the middle of July)

Good Feature...

At Neys they are installing what appears to be a new portable deck, platform, and ramp that is wheelchair accessible at the beach area. We are not sure what the three extra pieces are for but hopefully we will be able to find out and update this posting. We thought this was a good idea.

10:45 a.m. The three extra pieces are being connected to the platform and extend back to the roadway - see picture #1 - could be completed later today (all going well -see the last picture).

Oh so good!

Thanks to Greg T. for bringing to us a B/D Counter Top Convection Oven with Rotisserie.

We enjoyed this roast of beef, done to perfection.
It even looks better when you click on the image to enlarge as you can see some drippings rolling around as the meat turns.