Deer Lake Excursion!

Today the principal, Julia, took us around Deer Lake and showed us some nice places. She wanted to be sure that we knew of places that we could go just to get away for a bit. Places were we might not feel so trapped. Here are few photos from our ride around town today.

This is the local television station. On all the t.v.'s it is channel 19. They do all kinds of stuff on this channel. They have auctions, they play t.v. bingo, they have singers, on Sundays people read from the bible. They even post announcements. It is really quite a neat channel to watch, especially if you want to keep up with what is going on in the community.

This is the penecostal church. I think this one we could possibly walk to, however it would be a long walk. Amanda, Greg and I are still trying to find out more information about how we will get to church and what times they start at.

This is Amanda and I at the beach. It is beautiful here and is a nice walk.

Greg and I at the beach.

The beach. It is beautiful, and is a nice place to get away from things.

This is another nice place we can come to unwind. There is a bench to sit on and read a book in this area. From this spot you can see the beach, it is just across the lake a bit. However, this picture was taken facing the other way.

This is the Hydro Station, it is at Shoulder Blade Falls. It is quite aways from town.

These are the rapids by the Hydro Station. They are natural rapids. This is also a beautiful place we can go to unwind.

This is the airport.

This is the other church by the Northern. It is alittle to far for us to walk. This is the Mennonite church. Apparently there is a strong Mennonite influence in this community. Hopefully we will be able to make it to chuch at some point.

A house. Not all houses look like this.

This is an old teacherage. Some of the first nations people now live in the old teacherages. Houses here kind of have to get passed down to you. Housing is not easy to come by at all. The old teacherages were on the lake. To bad ours weren't still on the lake, it is beautiful.

These are the nurses homes. They are REALLY nice. These are like mansions here. They are better then our house (although ours is nice too).

The view the nursing station and the nurses homes have.

The back side of the nursing station. I am standing on a dock used by water planes.

Today was a big eye opener. This is really a beautiful place and it was great to see things.