Gustav A. Richar

Killarney: Travels To, In, and Around the Wilderness Park Gustav A. Richar

The nine travel essays and fifty colour photos presented in the book are reflecting many of the adventures, observations, and dreams my wife and I have experienced during our canoe trips to, in, and around Killarney and the wilderness park, as well as on our hiking tours in Killarney Provincial Park. For twenty years-mostly in June and September-we have paddled and trekked in this area of the northern Georgian Bay, recorded our impressions in diaries and on photos. These selected essays and pictures are a cross-section of those travels. We canoed along sculptured granite shores, camped on remote islands, hiked up hills and down dales on the 100-km-long La Cloche Silhouette Trail, and, with unrelenting happiness, watched sunsets. Being a musician I often imagined hearing symphonic music while looking across land and water, and recorded these impressions. I also referred to book passages I considered appropriate at certain moments while I was viewing the panorama in front of me.