Outdoor Nova Scotia: Features; an Indepth Look at 'The Great Outdoors' in Nova Scotia!

Nils Mischorr is an exchange student from Germany. Nils always dreamed of paddling across a lake in Canada. Little
did he know that he would live with one of Atlantic Canada's best guides
who also owns an outdoor adventure company!

May 8th, 2001

We're up at 7:30 am and Jon is yelling me out of bed.

After an extensive breakfast we leave our campsite and head toward the
Obed Miller Brook. The sun is perfect for taking pictures in the
morning. The seagulls accompany us. We stop at a pine tree that was
twisted against the winds. We paddle against the current on a little
swampy brook that winds towards Little Dish Lake. Hardtack makes it
difficult to make it through the deep and little brook. It gets too
narrow to get through and therefore we do a portage. It takes us 20
minutes to get to Little Dish Lake. It is 10:15 and we have a snack.
Loons call on Little Dish Lake.

The connection between Little Dish Lake and Dish Lake is quite wide and
very short. The wind is picking up. We head toward the cove in the east
of the lake and enter the Obed Miller Brook. It is winding through a
beautiful forest but there are also many rocks that make it hard to go
through this brook. We have to slide the canoes over land to avoid four
dams. There are two beaver lodges and a narrow brook between Sporting
Lake and Little Dish Lake and two beaver dams on the Obed Miller Brook.
This brook is up in a large meadow through which it meanders
at least 11 times until we reach our lunch spot.

We have lunch at 1pm at an elevation that overviews the meadow. We have pitas filled with crab salad, cheese, and eggs. We head back to our camp site and it's my turn to paddle. We have another snack at the mouth of the Obed Miller Brook and Sandra and Susan go swimming. The lake is
still cold though. We decided to visit the cabin of Colonel Ditmire who
lived there in the late 1800's.  We find only the foundations of it
covered with moss. Jon finds the dump of the cabin and lots of bottles
of the early 1900's. I take a blue medicine bottle form 1906 with me.

We head back to Sporting Lake. The wind picks up on Dish Lake. We do the portage again. On Sporting Lake the winds get really strong and makes
the paddle challenging. We arrive at our campsite at 5:45 p.m. I take a hot
shower which is really pleasant. I don't find any ticks on my body this
time. We have a vegetable stew and rice pilaf. Jon's baked brownies are
really excellent. Sandra and I take pictures of the moon. I write this
journal at 9:10 p.m.

Sandra Phinney is a writer and lives in Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia. Sandra is frequent contributor to Outdoor Nova Scotia.

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