Lemon Lake, Algonquin Park

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Day 1 of my solo canoe trip took me through Lemon Lake, Algonquin Park.

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At first glance, the only redeeming quality of tiny Lemon Lake is that it sits between two nice destination lakes, McGarvey to the west and North Grace to the east. After completing the moderate 810m portage, I’m greeted by a muddy landing that shows how low the water level is, and views to the east are uninspiring. Like many of the lakes along my route, this one is better suited for wildlife than campers.

A short 400m paddle across the Lake brings me to the 165m portage to North Grace Lake. Here I pause, for the rocky, narrow bay harbouring the portage and an outlet creek that flows to North Grace has a zen quality about it that is difficult to put into words. I sit and eat a small snack before carrying on.

Looking back across the lake, I have a desire to spend more time here in the future, perhaps camping on North Grace and revisiting Lemon Lake early in the morning to see what wildlife inhabit it during feeding hours.

Tags: iMovie,algonquin park,canoeing,canoetrip,camp,camping,lake,ontario,canada

Video Transcription

that's the end of the portage I'm now on lemon lake from McGarvey under 10 meter Port Arthur mcgarvey is a nice and dry looking like this in the spring might be a bit more than a bit of a mess this is lemon lake it's a pass through on basically between mcgarvey and north grace or stayed on the garvey last night September 27th and as you can see the leaves have barely changed just started changing this is typical shoreline surrounded by spruce pine cedar and deciduous hills in the background which is where the Moose are right now the East End of lemon lake heading to the portage into

North grace tahj the far west end of I

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