Day 11, Visiting Whetung Ojibwa Centre
Friday, September 20, 2019
This houseboat in Bobcaygeon must be the most relaxing holiday
destination I ever had. To get up, have a shower and eat breakfast
and drink tea on the porch and looking out over te lake.
Morning tea at Bobcaygeon
We are sorry we have to leave already. We really love this
place. We will ride to Curve Lake now, so Anneke can buy her
moccasins and then we will try to find our hotel, Woodhaven
Country Lodge on 97 Fire Route 51 in Buckhorn.
Bye bye nice houseboat....
It is about half an hour driving to Curve Lake and the roads
are good and the trees are starting to get their autumn
colors.
Nice roads
This is an area with a lot of water. Lakes, canals, rivers and
swamps.
A swamp along the road
On Mississauga Street in Curve Lake, we filled our gas tank at
Quarter Mile gasstation. We got 35,63 liter for $ 42.37 (Canadian).
Filling the tank
Shortly after we left the gasstation, we saw Whetung Ojibwa Centre on
the right side of the road. (The address is 875 Mississauga St. Curve Lake,
First Nation, Ontario).
We arrived at our first destination
A tipi behind Whetung Ojibwa Centre
Curve Lake is the teritory of the Ojibwe people. They belong to the Anishnabek
group of people.
Whetung Ojibwa Centre offers a very big collection of Native crafts as well as
Fine Art, Jewelry, Moccasins, Leather Work, Sculptures and much more from Curve
Lake First Nation and across Canada.
So much to see (and buy)
Native art
But we were here because Anneke was looking for moccasins and boy did they
have moccasins......
A "few" moccasins
It is hard to choose.......
Finaly Anneke could find two pair of moccasisns she liked. I found a nice
present for my wife and we enjoyed looking at all the beautiful native
art and jewelery and the interesting museum downstairs.
From the Whetung Ojibwa Centre we followed the road into Curve Lake.
Some views were beautiful and some a little less.
Lake view at Curve Lake
Houses at Curve Lake
It was time for coffee and when we saw this "Convenience One Stop Shop",
we stopped. Then someone was shouting something from the end of the pier.
It happened to be the Ojibwa lady that was running the shop and gasstation
and also a gasstation for the boats on the lake.
When she was finished with the boats, she came to the shop. We asked if
she had coffee and she had. We could get it for free !
She was a very nice lady, full of energy and very funny.
We got free coffee here
We came past another shop down the road and we wanted to check it out
but there was nobody there so we carried on.
Nobody there....
It was lunchtime now so we were looking for a place to buy something
to eat. At a gasstation, we noticed a Tim Hortons sign but unfortunately,
the place was deserted.
In Buckhorn, we found a restaurant near the lake but after a while, nobody
came to show us a table and some other people complained they were already
waiting for twenty minutes so we left.
The next restaurant, on the other side of the street was the Olde Ice House.
It is on 1932 Lakehurst Road in Buckhorn Ontario.
We found a table outside and the nice (and very skinny) waitress brought us
our tea and the menu. We choose a Banquet Burger with Coleslaw and it was
very nice.
Lunch at the Olde Ice House
We could not find the address of the hotel in my Nokia satnav but fortunately
I had downloaded a map of the area in Google Maps yesterday. With the
combination of the GPS coördinates in Booking.com and Google Maps, we could
find a route to the hotel.
It is a nice green area
The road along the lake
A nice view on the lake
After fifteen minutes, we found the sign Woodhaven Country Lodge at the
beginning of Fire Route 51. Then it was only a kilometer on a gravel road
to get to the lodge.
The road to Woodhaven Country Lodge
We left the car at the parking and walked to the lodge but it was closed.
It was only half past two and we were supposted to arrive at three o'clock.
We walked past the lodge and I walked down to the lake while Anneke was
waiting near the lodge. Just when I was at the shoreline of the lake,
I heard someone comming. Anneke came racing down the slope in a golfcart
with David, one of the owners of the lodge.
In the golfcart
We went back to the lodge and got our luggage from the car. We were
shown our rooms and given a tour through the public rooms for the
guests.
The entrance of Woodhaven Country Lodge
There is a nice living room near the entrance, a big dining room, a
smaller living room and a room with a pool table and a kitchenette
with coffee and cakes.
A nice living room for the guests
Upstairs, in front of our suite with to sleeping rooms and one bathroom,
is another living room with a wonderful view on the lake.
On Friday and Saturday (the days we are here !) they offer a free dinner
at half past six in the afternoon. Tonight is is pizza with salad. The
dessert was a very nice pie. Dinner is with all guests and the hosts on
one big table.
Dinner with other guests and our hosts
What I don't like to much is all the signs with rules, what to do and
what not to do, but it is no big deal, in fact it is just funny.
Some of the rules
But there is one sign I do like, and that is in the entrance of the
dining room, the sign "The dining room area is a cell phone free zone".
Cell phone free zone
Tomorrow at nine AM, we have breakfast in the big dining room and
after breakfast we will go to the Pow Wow in Curved Lake.
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