Swift Water Training Course

Some pics from the Swift Water Training Course on the Whitemouth River in Manitoba. Swift water in the Prairies? Indeed there are some rapids in Manitoba ...

Camping on the Whitemouth River

Winnipeg Folk Festival

A must for Winnipegger is the Folk Festival (July 8-12, 09). It is a summer folk music festival held in the Birds Hills Provincial Park, near Winnipeg.

Muscians arriving in the Pickup Truck

The audiance in their small lawn chairsThe cowboyJah Youssouf & The Woodchoppers Association

Watermelon Slim & Mary Flower

VishtènPacific Curls

The main stage

Islandic Festival in Gimli, Manitoba

Bider vom Wochenendausflug zum Islandic Festival in Gimli am Lake Winnipeg :

Rivercity Dragon Boat Festival

I joined the DFO Dragon boat team "Oceans Alive". Here some pics our Steerman Doug took:

Practice on the Red River

Last weekend we participated on the Rivercity Dragon Boat Festival and we had a lot of fun.

Getting ready for the raceFirst heat - looking good !

The team

http://www.rivercitydragonboat.ca/

Delta Marsh

Electrofishing trip with DFO biologists Doug Watkinson and Neil Mochnacz in the Delta Marsh mainly capturing big carp.

The Delta Marsh is situated at the South Shore of Lake Manitoba near the City of Portage La Prairie, Manitoba.

Lake Manitoba

Fishing in the rain

Measuring the fish

South Tobacco Creek

Visit to the field sites of the WEBs (Watershed Evaluation of Beneficial Management Practices) project in rural Manitoba:

Canola Field near Miami, ManitobaThe Farmer and the ScientistThe CowsThe Retention Pond ...

... and what the Scientist does with the Cow Pi

For more information on the project visit:
http://www4.agr.gc.ca/AAFC-AAC/display-afficher.do?id=1185480058208&lang=eng

Mennonite Heritage Village

On a rainy Sunday, I decided to visit the Mennonite Heritage Village situated in Steinbach, Manitoba.

The Semlin

Soil, grass, and wood were the building materials of the first homes built by Mennonite immigrants in 1874.

The Farm

The Windmill
The Chortitz Housebarn
The Mennonite Schoolhouse