The Agnew Family aboard the "Dog House"

We decided to stay a second day at the Hot Springs — are you the least bit surprised? Zaph decided he needed to go for a walk/swim, so after our “dip” in the hot spring off we went Colin, Splash, Ed, Zaph and myself down the nature trail to the pond. We threw Zaph’s ball and Splash’s stick and a swimming they went. Then we heard a large splash. The dogs continued swimming while Ed watched the water to see what was creating the loud splashes. After a couple of minutes Ed spotted it — a beaver. I couldn’t believe it, there was actually a beaver in the beaver pond (this was a first for me). And it wasn’t a happy beaver. He kept slapping his tale on the water and circling closer to us. We called the dogs out of the water but the beaver kept slapping his tale and getting closer. At one point Zaph thought that something had been thrown for him to fetch and was about to fetch the beaver. I think the beaver finally declared victory and swam off. The dogs finish their swim without any more trouble from the beaver. Later that day we saw a weather forecast. There were the regular items sun, clouds, chance of rain and there was a new item for us smoke. In southern Ontario smoke in the air isn’t something you think about but it really does have an effect out here where there are huge forest fires. In fact it has a large enough impact that it is included in weather reports.



Sled dogs hanging out.


Mr. Beaver. Here he comes.


See my tail.



See the splash.... get out of my pond!


Splash and her stick.