We lucked out with the weather this week, only the first morning was a little chilly with frost on the car windows and on this dandelion.
The Snow Geese were headed in the right direction.
Our ride for the week was a Jeep Liberty.
The site is located at the Island Falls Hydroelectric Dam, this is the A-Dam Spillway.
On the way out of the site we encountered this guy.
He was just sitting on the road, not in any hurry to move off to the side.
I took some video of the bear as I was slowly driving towards it, eventually it bounded off into the bush.
We were staying at a fishing camp about 20 km’s from the site.
This is our cabin at Slim’s Cabins.
The cabins are located on the Churchill River, only about 8km by boat to the dam. The camp offers fishing, fly-in fishing and hunting. The main catch are Lake Trout, Pike, and Walleye.
The Hydroelectric Generating Station was built in 1928-30 by the Churchill River Power Company, which was a subsidiary of the HBM&S Co. (Hudson Bay Mining and Smelting Company). It provided power to the Mine and Smelting operations in Flin Flon, Manitoba. Today it is owned by SaskPower.
Up until the late 60’s there was a townsite of company owned houses for staff. Our site is located on the old townsite. Although they have long since torn down the houses, the sidewalks still remain as you can see in this photo.
The only remaining building from the townsite is the Commisary.
The two-storey Comissisary can be seen in the distance along with the old sidewalk.
These two photos show the location of the townsite in relation to the power station.
The Comissary is in the bottom right of this photo.
Another look at the A-Dam Spillway
Some video of from the Spillway.
Had time to visit the Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin statue in Flin Flon.
The history behind the name of the city. NHL hockey players that were born in Flin Flon include, Bobby Clarke, Al Hamilton, Gerry Hart, Eric Nesterenko and Ken Baumgartner to name the more famous ones.
The flight to and from Winnipeg was with Calm Air. I flew up in a Saab 340B and an ATR 42 300 (below) on the way back. The Winnipeg Airport Terminal is quite nice now, a big step up from the old terminal.
