Friday, July 3, 2015

Parc Omega, Quebec

Imagine a park where the deer are domesticated and come up without fear of humans - that's Parc Omega!

The drive from Montreal to Parc Omega was only about 90 minutes. When we arrived, we thought about renting a golf cart with a built-in cage - the cost seemed reasonable at $25/hour. However, the golf cart could not visit some park areas, so we decided not to try it.

We started at Trout's Lake, which had many deer (though we did not see many trout). We enjoyed the walk around the lake, and the many totem poles spread out.


The deer were very friendly (they behaved as if they were domesticated) and were eager to chomp on our bags of fresh red carrots.


The Trout Lake was not very large, and the trails around the lake had many Totem Poles of Canadian First People.


We walked around the lake and enjoyed a relaxing stroll while observing deer and totem poles.


Inna and Alex offered carrots to the Fallow Deer, and the deer were usually very happy to take a bite.


All the animals, especially the deer, were amiable and felt almost "domesticated."


After touring Trout Lake, we headed for another part of the Parc Omega.


We saw very many deer wandering around. All were eagerly looking for red carrots.


There were wild hogs and pigs, but not as many as deer.


Wild bison and buffalo were greedily eating grass, and many were resting.



We saw a few eager beavers chomping on carrots as we drove by the "The Deer" area of the park.


When we arrived at the "The Deer" picnic area, Alex enjoyed feeding the deer.


We decided to stop by for our picnic lunch and were surprised to see the animals come over. We had to hide our food as the animals were not scared of people and could easily dig through our bags.


The picnic area had some lovely wooden carvings and fun activities for kids.



We saw a charming tree walking course and tried it out. It was a lot of fun to run between trees.


Alex liked bouncing on the planks and scaring Inna with his jumps.


There was a lovely children's play area with ropes and a see-saws setup.


Alex could finally burn up some energy on climbing some of the structures.


We finally finished our lunch and decided to continue our drive through the park. On our way, we saw more wild boars and deer.


These were Caribou Tundra deer -as seen by their huge antlers. Unlike most deer, both male and female Caribou possess antlers.


The Arctic Wolves were very active during the day. We saw a whole pack of them running around.


The pack was looking at carrots that someone was offering.


We also spotted some Alpine Ibex with their rather big horns. These are wild goats that mostly live in the European Alps.



As we kept driving, we stopped by "Bear Valley." We saw many bears being quite active.


I was expecting bears to be sleeping, but these bears were looking out for food. Some were even posing!


Is this a wild bear or a domesticated bear?




Leaving Bear Valley, we ran into more deer and some coyotes.


This coyote looked almost like a wolf.


Once we drove out of the park, we realized that we missed the Bird Show. We returned and walked to the Bird Show location, only to discover that another unexplored part of the park was still there.

To our surprise, we walked on a boardwalk and,, ran into a few bear cubs eating carrots. They were pretty adorable.



Once we finished the boardwalk, we returned to the Bird Show area. What kind of show was going to happen?


We saw a few large birds of prey flying around.



Alex even got picked to be in the show!


The skunk was supposed to climb some ropes but did not cooperate reasonably.





A friendly neighborhood lynx came out to play.


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