27 June 2009 Fly out from Athabasca

At 0800 on the dot, the Twin Otter dropped out of a clear blue sky and taxied across to us.
The Twin Otter can take three canoes inside and half a dozen passengers and so it made two trips to pick up the whole group and ferry us back to Carswell Lake where the truck and van were parked.
In just twenty minutes we flew back over country that we had spent two weeks paddling through! Astonishing. It was great to see the whole landscape from the air, the huge lake, the delta, the William, the dune fields, the Carswell and finally Carswell lake.

We thanked the pilot and his co-pilot for a great flight and loaded up for the long 13 hour drive back to Saskatoon, stopping en route for a fine steak dinner. A great river trip with great people.