Well, we gave our mate Lambert (pictured above) a call to see if he was up for a Jet Boat lesson. We hadn't taken him out for a while and the old boat needed a bit of a run. Martin and Sally came too - a good way to celebrate her 50th (oops).
We let Lambert have a bit of a drive once we'd got through the most dangerous parts of the Athabasca River. It gets a bit shallow. He did OK round the bends and needs to remember to speed up through the shallow bits especially when you hear a grating sound coming from underneath.
We went upstream for a couple of hours towards Whitecourt. Drifted back down for a while and then sped back for our next appointment at Mrs. V's for another sumptuous meal.
Lambert seemed pretty happy with his progress. Next lesson we'll have him going a bit faster. We'll also see if we can help him grasp the concept of using his hands on the steering wheel.As you can see the conditions were superb. Autumn colours on the way. We saw a couple of deer, a Golden Eagle and a Bald Eagle.
We feel like we're getting to know the Athabasca River reasonably well. We've walked on it's Glacier up past Jasper, enjoyed the Athabasca falls, rafted 15km's of it below the falls and now this. This river is rare because it is both very long, very large and as yet untamed. From here it heads north and we think it's water ends up in the Arctic Sea via Lake Athabasca, Great Slave Lake and the Mackenzie River.
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