We had hired mantis tricycles, envisioning that we would use them riding across the Great Bike Paths. But on our first day, we modified our plan.
We kept the inflatable mantis fairings and traded in the tricycle frames for a centipede frame. We all rode on the centipede, each person responsible for powering one wheel.
We were also pulling a wagon carrying our equipment. Sometimes Jack was riding in it.
We need someone to take our picture: wearing mantis-head-shaped fairings attached to a centipede body.
We don’t go too fast out of respect for wildlife crossing. It is great recreation, cruising on our self-stabilizing centipede!
On the first day in Algonquin Park we hired canoes. We pedaled out to Canoe Lake in several canoes.
There was a loon diving in the lake. It would surface on one side of someone’s canoe and resurface on the side of another canoe.
After an amazingly gorgeous sunset, we heard the howls of wolves.