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So here I am in Fort Coulonge, just off the Ottawa river, just 2 hrs drive from Ottawa city centre. The accommadation is not really in Fort Coulonge but actually located in Davidson, which just doesnt have the same ring does it, so they call the hostel Fort Coulonge, which is suitable as the hostel is breathtaking, a mexican style lodge cabin overlooking a pebbly beach, just off the Ottawa river.
It is really out in the stick here, you need a vehicle to get to the village and if you blink you will miss it. The village consists of a petrol station/shop, a liquor store, steak house, church and cemetery. But the accommadtion itself is beautiful.
Again, Fort Coulonge was not one of my planned destination. Infact, I hadnt even heard of it, until people of the moose tour recommended it as a must see.
Now that I am here, I dont know if I would call it a must see, but it is definately a very beautiful place. The mexican style cabin oozes character and is very homely. The scenary is beathtaking, as the cabin overlooks the pebbly shores of the Ottawa River. As the winds have been strong the river takes on similar characterists of the ocean, with the current of the river causing the water to crash on the pebbly shore. Whilst on the otherside of the cabin there is a beautiful calm lake that you can canoe on free, as the water is calm and as the water is still warm this time of year you can also go swimming.
Cant remember if I have mentioned the moose tours before, but it is basically an on and off bus tour service which covers must see destinations in the East and West of Canada. Ive met up with a number of different people of the moose at different places and just keep seeming to bump into them. Thus they have presuaded me to join the moose tour for the last leg of the journey, to Fort Coulonge and then onto Madawaska for a few nuights in a hostel and a few nights camping which should be fun.
Enough about the places, I hear you say, what about the men? Well ladies, sorry to disappoint but there has been no recent scandals (no missing trainers and other things......). Howevere, I have meet up with this really amazing guy from Oz, we met in Mount Tremblant and have basically been travelling together from then on. We are getting on really well, but unfortunately ladies no scandals, just good friends (famous last words). Anyway best go and lots of drinking to be done, as we are having a bbq and then beers around a campfire overlooking the Ottawa river. This is what life is all about.
Miss you all loads xxx
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