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Mawdsley Lake is renowned for its beautiful sunrises and sunsets, as well as its magnificent Northern Pike and Lake Trout.

In late May and early June, the sun rises about 3:45 a.m. and sets about 10:45 p.m. It makes for really short nights! On clear nights, the northern horizon is never completely dark.

The terrain is generally flat, broken by an intricate maze of lakes and streams.

The land is predominately sand with some outcroppings of rock. The forest floor is covered with lichen and both wild blueberry and cranberry bushes. Grass of any kind is a rarity.

The lakes vary from shallow protected bays, home to Pike that will scare you, to deep clear cold water havens for some whopping big Trout.

The river rapids shelter Grayling with their large, iridescent dorsal fin.

Mawdsley Lake offers a wide range of wildlife in the jack pine dominated forests and along shorelines. Black bear, moose, woodland caribou, wolves, lynx, beaver, river otter, muskrat, mink, fisher, weasel, and spruce grouse are found.

The lakes are home to common loons with their amazing, haunting call, common and red-breasted mergansers, surf scoters, mallards, buffleheads, and other ducks, Canada geese, snow geese, cranes and numerous wading birds. Bald eagles and ospreys nest in the high trees. Song birds abound in the forests.

One of the father-daughter family units from Virginia enjoyed Mawdsley in 2001, and the daughter, Kris, wrote this for her father, Dick:

To the Fisherman:

Crawling up on the bank to nap
in the warm Saskatchewan sun, cool air,
crunchy, yet comfortable moss cushion,
my head heavy upon the life jacket pillow,

The occasional buzz of a bug, and
lapping of the lake water on the shady shore,
the breeze blows gently through the pines,
whistling as it reverberates each needle.

Some memories forever remain
a source of comfort and happiness.
For me, it is napping with my dad
on the banks of Mawdsley Lake.

Love, the Fisherman's daughter (October 2001)

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