Golfing on sand
painted green. Our cart got stuck on the fairway
on one of the holes and one of us had to push it
back onto the hard surface. There was very little
roll on the fairways because of the sand. It was a
unique and fun course to play.
The afternoon concluded with a visit to Sombe
K’e Civic Plaza where National Indigenous
Peoples Day was being celebrated. If we’d been
earlier, we would have been able to eat one of
the more than 3,500 whitefi sh fi llets that were
fried and served free to those in attendance. We
were able to watch many Indigenous singers and
dancers on the stage in front of Frame Lake.
Our fi nal day in Yellowknife included a drive on
the Ingraham Trail, where we stopped frequently
to view the lakes in several territorial parks.
Two parks that made a positive impression on
us were Prelude Lake and Prosperous Lake.
While the mosquitoes were not bad in the city,
we were warned that they could be bad on the
trail to Cameron Falls. We were ready! With our
borrowed bug shirts, we tackled the 30-minute
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Cameron Falls in a bug shirt
hike scrambling over the smooth rock surfaces
made slippery by the light rain. Even Leo’s hard
fall did not detract from the great view we were
rewarded with at the end of the hike where the
Cameron River tumbles down fi fteen metres on a
slanted rock surface.
We left early the next day with a better
understanding of life in the land of the sun at
midnight. ●