It was Monday morning and we had to pack up our site. After rolling up the tents we noticed some Lemon Slugs hanging out in the under brush.
I took one last walk down to the water and saw a school of minnows swimming around.
The people who had been on sites A1, A2, and A3 had already left. When I was booking the sites for this trip I had almost booked two of these sites instead of the ones we had. I didn't though because it appeared on the map that there might not have been any trees here.
However, now that I was looking at them up close and in person, it looked like there would have been enough trees and these sites would be great for groups of people that are camping together. If we come back again we will have to remember these sites for next time.
The park was so lovely and we didn't really want to leave yet. We decided to make one last stop at the other end of the park to see Margaret's Farm.
We pulled up outside a small barn and got out of the cars to look around.
At first it didn't look like there were any animals here. But then we saw a sign with a picture of a goat named Huguette.
And then we saw Huguette napping in the shade. She looked like she had a happy little smile on her face.
Next we saw some photos of 3 ponies, Cannelle, Mocha, and Peek-A-Boo. But we didn't see the ponies themselves right away.
Then we noticed Peek-A-Boo's butt sticking out from beneath a small grove of pine trees. Peek-A-Boo! I see you!
All three ponies were huddled together under the trees in order to stay out of the hot sun and in an effort to stay cool in what little shade the trees were providing them. They had no interest in coming over to say hello to us. So. we didn't bother them and we moved on over to the barn.
The barn was clean and open and airy. All the stalls and pens looked relatively new.
In the corner of one of the pens was a furry little bunny.
There was a photo of a couple of peacocks, so we looked around to see if we could spot them.
The male peacock was perched up on a railing.
And the female was enjoying a dust bath near the fence in the sun. She had a number of little black chicks nearby.
In the same pen were a couple of chickens and some Banty roosters.
The next photo was of a donkey named Bourriquet.
Bourriquet was grazing on some grass by the fence.
Next was Serge the Llama, and Centaure and Avril the Alpacas.
Serge and Avril were just standing around grazing.
But not Centaure. He had better things to do.
Centaure was rolling around on the ground and having a grand ole time in a dust bath. Dust was flying everywhere! He looked very happy.
Other than a sheep who appeared to be ill and segregated from the public, that was about all the animals there were to see in Margaret's Farm. However, up in the rafters of the barn some wild birds had made a series of nests.
All the nests except one were empty. It was too high up to see what kind of bird was in the nest though.
We went back to our cars and said good bye. We were going in separate directions. Most of our group was headed to Ottawa but Carsten, Penny and I were headed to a new campground. Next on our itinerary was Voyageur Provincial Park back in Ontario. We were off to our next adventure!
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