Day Two

Traveling from Yorkton, Saskatchewan to Little Manitou Beach, Saskatchewan 254km  Before we left Yorkton we made a stop at the Western Development Museum at Yorkton.  Identifying which site is an important distinction as there are 4 different Western Development Museums in Saskatchewan.  The Yorkton site which focuses on the Story of People is one and then the Moose Jaw site which focuses on Transportation, North Battleford focuses on Agriculture and the Saskatoon site focuses on the Economy.  All of them work to preserve the social and economic history of Saskatchewan.  Here I am in the lobby and gift shop of the Yorkton site checking out the museum guide:

It was a great museum and I enjoyed learning about the people who live here and how their past has shaped the development of the province.  Here I am reading about how hard it was for some coming to Saskatchewan:

After the museum we then continued our journey to Little Manitou Beach.  This is a small salt water lake about 100km south of Saskatoon.  Due to some unique geography, the lake was formed by receding glaciers during the last ice age.  The lake itself is fed by underground springs and is a terminal lake - as in there are no outlets for the lake water to drain from except by air in the form of evaporation.  This means the lake has a very high concentration of sodium, magnesium and potassium salts.  It has a salinity of about half of the Dead Sea it allows people to float in the water. Before I close for today here's a collage of me enjoying the sites in Little Manitou Lake Beach: