I suggest a thread on longest recovery

[rob love]

Originally posted by Alex Blair
Rob..
I have been in that area and there is an old prisonor of war camp down south of Armstrong..When I was there back in '69 the prisoner's paintings were still on the walls and it looked like they just walked out in '45..and left everything..I don't remember any carriers there but very well could be lots of stuff there because of the POW camp...You had your work cut out for you...the fishing was fabulous...
Hope you had some time to do some fishing..at least with a CIL wobbler or two...

Alex
Never even thought of fishing.
There were a few POW camps in the area, and logging camps as well. If you are talking about the camp I think you are talking about, it was on the south east corner of the lake. There are only remains of a large wooden wheel device they used to pull on the lake in the winter to make the winter road. While at this camp about 7 years back, Derk found what looked to be a German airborne boot. Lots of other junk around too.

The carriers were on the North end of the lake. After the big haul of stuff the first year, we went back another year and found lots of smaller treasures scattered about the bush. Things like grenade boxes, antenna mounts, good track.....you know, the kind of stuff one normally finds laying about in the Northern Ont bush.

I heard rumours of 2 more carriers in the bush up there....may be a summer expidition coming up yet.