Looking for Clarity At Buffalo Pound Lake

This video is a continuation of my 2025 ultimate summer adventure vanlifr road trip, and it focuses my stay at Buffalo Pound Lake Provincial Park in Saskatchewan. It all starts with a canoe trip down and around the lake. Nothing too crazy, something like 12 kilometers. The paddle was nice as the lake was interesting, but it was also full of think green algae, which made me realize that I was over it. I have been battling gross algae on ever lake I've been to since I left Jasper, and coming here made me realize that I was done with canoeing in the prarie.

After paddling I made Matty Matheson's smoky mac and cheese for dinner, that I zhuzhed up a bit with a spicy honey smoky from Walmart and some stuffed breadsticks. It was OK, which is really all I try to get out of a campsite meal.

After dinner I headed down to the Buffalo Paddock to see if I could see the Buffalo of Buffalo Pound, which I did. Historically this valley was used by first nations people to corral bison in, which at one point numbered in the hundred of thousand, but had been wiped out. They brought back bison in a managed population at the south end of the lake. It was pretty cool seeing the bison up close, but I kind of wish I had seen them out roaming and not just in their pen. I also like seeing bison though. Then I headed back to camp for a fire, and went to bed.

In the morning I headed back to the south end of the lake, and rode my bike in the Nicolle Flats Nature Area. This is a marshy grasslands area, that has some trails and holds the historic Nicolle homestead. Charles Nicolle came to this valley in the 1870s, and eventually built a stone house and farmed this area. The house is still standing today, and it's pretty impressive to see it standing in a land thats mostly just grass. The marsh itself wasn't very marshy, but I was traveling in mid September and it had been very dry. The marsh area was super green, which was a big contrast to to the golden hue of all the grass that surrounded it. It was a nice little bike ride, and it was a great trip into Buffalo Pound Lake Provincial Park.

If you like this video you might also like this one from my Saskatchewan trip -    • Vanlife And Canoeing On The Dead Sea Of Sa...  

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