Tenting season has begun and I knew that i had to get out! Bitty and I packed my car with all the gear and hit the road towards Big Muddy. This area is the only part of the province besides the north that i have not been to. With perfect weather to start the day we knew this trip would be interesting and within 60km it was.
The highway in front of us started to deteriorate and we needed both gas and food. Driving from town to town we had no luck. Just when we thought we were out of luck we found a gas station. After a struggle with the pump we moved on to find food. This was also an impossible task and our snack supply was running low. Driving through more towns we decided to go through Willow Bunch on the odd chance that it had gas and food. Not only did it have gas and food but also had a museum that was open. We used this town as a launching point to the Grasslands and Big Muddy area.
The trip was a success and many stories came from the adventure.
Some key points:
- camera falling off tripod and towards the edge of castle butte - 200ft down :o
- vertical climb up 200ft
- creating fire out of wet wood
- finding 4 wild foxes playing around a den
- giant angry bull staring at bitty
- finding an abandoned mansion
- asking the gas station attendant at willow bunch if the wizards still lived in town
- finding an amazing restaurant in a small town
- dead birds covering the floor of an old school
- finding old rural church and pulling the doorhandle off
- no tan despite being in the sun
- trying to catch a frog and almost falling into a creek
- gas station attendant telling us weyburn is the only place that has food in the entire southwest area
- Bitty not being able to accept that we have full service gas stations in saskatchewan
- chasing gophers in the grasslands
- and more!
This is not a ghost town. Good for the state to preserve these ghost towns for tourists but this was not what we were looking for. We decided to look for the real ghost towns.
