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Riding Mountain National Park is near the western side of Manitoba - a. beautiful National Park and we were surprised at the height of the terrain (750m / 2400 ft) so far south in the province. We spent a couple of days to walk a bit and see some wildlife including black bear, lynx, moose along the road and bison on a fenced range. We were told that Bison and Buffalo differ in the number of ribs they have and that Buffalo existed only on Europe and Asia. What we have here in North America is Bison. This needs to be checked out.

June 14th we drove from the National Park to Saskatoon – about 580km. Highway 16, the “Yellowhead”, runs north of the really flat part of the prairies. We were amazed that we could drive almost an hour with turning the steering wheel and yet go up and down through small valleys and over hills. Quite beautiful country. The large amount of rain in May and early June has left its mark. Every field has small and larger ‘lakes’ (up to 7 feet deep) and huge tracts of land are still to be seeded. Farmers say that if they cannot plant seeds by the end of next week (Jun 23) they will have to return seeds and fertilizer to their distributors! This may be a major disaster for these farmers.

05 ON west to Portage MB

06 Riding Mountain MB