Squatch hates spring. Not sure why, cause right now, I'm thrilled to be able to take the dog out without bundling up in full winter gear every half hour. It's been a pretty brutal winter, and I'll admit, we really didn't get out to do much. There were a few trips to a local park to walk the dog, and one trip to Algonquin to cross country ski (Chris and the kids skied, I walked the dog around the Logging Museum trail three times.)
I was starting to think the weather would never warm up. March break started with a -22 morning, but two days later, it's +10 and beautiful out. Gotta love march, eh? Of course, this morning I woke up to a blizzard, and tomorrows supposed to feel like -17 so maybe spring isn't as close as I'd thought.
Still, it's only a few weeks until we can hopefully head to Algonquin for a few nights for our birthdays...provided we can get the trailer out from the snowbank it's been partially buried in all winter. Also, it's about time I started preparing dried meals for our canoe camping adventures this summer...whatever they may end up being. I'm really not liking not having anything planned, So far for this year we have one trip booked and the rest of the summer is up in the air.
I know a lot of canoeists have already spent a month preparing their camp meals for this coming season, and I'm hoping to start next week once the kids are back to school. This task has been made both easier and more difficult by the fact I recently decided to go vegan (or mostly vegan...I'm easing my way in since it's kind of expensive to get some of the vegan alternatives to a lot of products we use all the time.) Why easier and harder? Well, easier because pretty much any meal I might want to make should dry easily with no meat to worry about, and harder because the rest of the family is not so thrilled with the idea and are still determined to eat meat. Not sure how that's going to work, vegan meal for me with smaller portions for them as sides to go with something else? Meh, as long as there's no tofu, Chris will eat it, and to be honest the kids aren't really big meat eaters anyway...they just think they are.
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Friday, January 17, 2014
2014 Resolutions
I guess it's a few days later than most people write up their New Years Resolutions, but to be honest I wasn't going to actually make any this year. Then I started thinking about it, and decided I should.
So let's get the cliche one out of the way. I want to get into shape. Yes I want to look better in a bikini, and yes, I'd love to fit into the size 6 "goal pants" I bought on the clearance rack at Old Navy. But my real reason is so that I can handle the longer hikes, portages and steep hills without falling into a huffing, panting mess at the end. I don't need to be able to sprint up the hills like Chris, but I'd at least like to make it up them without feeling like my knees aren't going to give out.
The whole family has a goal of doing more canoe camping this year. As much as we love our Boler, we are really eager to get away from the crowds and noise of front country camping. Last year, Bubbie brought her friend along for a quick one night trip to Balsam Lake PP. She was a bit embarrassed because her friend goes crown land camping with her dad, and let's face it, Balsam Lake isn't exactly on the same level.
Shoot Video! I go on every trip planning to shoot video so I can make trip logs, but I just always forget, or only remember a few times and end up with not enough footage to make it worth while.
Explore new places! We tend to go to a spot, have a great time, and then go back over and over again, I'd especially like to check out Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands PP and the Noganosh/Island Lake areas.
Train the dog! Ugh! When we got him, I'd already read that Australian Cattle Dogs were for experienced dog owners, but we've had dogs all our life so I figured no problem. He's a stubborn little brat though and tests me on everything daily. I still haven't taught him not to drag me down the road, not to chase cars and he barks at me for no reason that I can figure out...all friggin' day. So, yes, training Biscuit is a goal.
So let's get the cliche one out of the way. I want to get into shape. Yes I want to look better in a bikini, and yes, I'd love to fit into the size 6 "goal pants" I bought on the clearance rack at Old Navy. But my real reason is so that I can handle the longer hikes, portages and steep hills without falling into a huffing, panting mess at the end. I don't need to be able to sprint up the hills like Chris, but I'd at least like to make it up them without feeling like my knees aren't going to give out.
The whole family has a goal of doing more canoe camping this year. As much as we love our Boler, we are really eager to get away from the crowds and noise of front country camping. Last year, Bubbie brought her friend along for a quick one night trip to Balsam Lake PP. She was a bit embarrassed because her friend goes crown land camping with her dad, and let's face it, Balsam Lake isn't exactly on the same level.
Shoot Video! I go on every trip planning to shoot video so I can make trip logs, but I just always forget, or only remember a few times and end up with not enough footage to make it worth while.
Explore new places! We tend to go to a spot, have a great time, and then go back over and over again, I'd especially like to check out Queen Elizabeth II Wildlands PP and the Noganosh/Island Lake areas.
Train the dog! Ugh! When we got him, I'd already read that Australian Cattle Dogs were for experienced dog owners, but we've had dogs all our life so I figured no problem. He's a stubborn little brat though and tests me on everything daily. I still haven't taught him not to drag me down the road, not to chase cars and he barks at me for no reason that I can figure out...all friggin' day. So, yes, training Biscuit is a goal.
Friday, January 3, 2014
Day Trip: Algonquin Provincial Park - November 16, 2013
With some decent weather finally making a day of hiking possible, we headed up to Algonquin on Saturday hoping to do the Whiskey Rapids trail. This trail suffered damage during the flooding this spring, and only opened a week ago. We were really curious about how much the trail had changed, and if there would be any signs of just how high water had gotten.
The plan was to hit the visitor centre first, ket the kids spend their gift certificates, then hit the Tea lake Dam picnic area, cook up some hot dogs on mum's BioStove. She'd bought this in the early summer and hadn't had a chance to try it out. Then we'd do the trail and head home.
Unfortunately, when we were paying for our things at the gift shop, the lady working there told us Whiskey Rapids was closed again because of flooding.
What? We couldn't believe it! After all summer of wanting to check this out, it closes again after only a week. We couldn't help but laugh. Unsure what to do, and with the trails having a bit of ice on them, we decided to play it safe and just do the Spruce Bog Boardwalk trail. Kind of a a let down, but it was better than sitting at home watching the kids play video games.
On the way to Tea Lake Dam, we saw two moose! We hadn't expected to see much in the way of wildlife. It was a cow and her baby. On the way through the park earlier in the day we saw a six point buck. Biscuit barked a few times, not crazy barking but the little woofs he let out made the moose raise their heads, giving us better photo opportunities. I should say it gave everyone else photo opportunities. I was seating in the middle of the back seat, holding the dog. No matter where I tried to move, there was either
Once we got to Tea Lake Dam, we hunted for dry sticks, which wasn't easy. Thankfully, the BioStove lights easily and it takes hardly any time to get enough heat going to cook some hot dogs on the grill attachment.
All in all, it was a great day. The temperature dropped pretty low by the time we ate, but otherwise, it was a great day.
The plan was to hit the visitor centre first, ket the kids spend their gift certificates, then hit the Tea lake Dam picnic area, cook up some hot dogs on mum's BioStove. She'd bought this in the early summer and hadn't had a chance to try it out. Then we'd do the trail and head home.
Unfortunately, when we were paying for our things at the gift shop, the lady working there told us Whiskey Rapids was closed again because of flooding.
What? We couldn't believe it! After all summer of wanting to check this out, it closes again after only a week. We couldn't help but laugh. Unsure what to do, and with the trails having a bit of ice on them, we decided to play it safe and just do the Spruce Bog Boardwalk trail. Kind of a a let down, but it was better than sitting at home watching the kids play video games.
On the way to Tea Lake Dam, we saw two moose! We hadn't expected to see much in the way of wildlife. It was a cow and her baby. On the way through the park earlier in the day we saw a six point buck. Biscuit barked a few times, not crazy barking but the little woofs he let out made the moose raise their heads, giving us better photo opportunities. I should say it gave everyone else photo opportunities. I was seating in the middle of the back seat, holding the dog. No matter where I tried to move, there was either
Once we got to Tea Lake Dam, we hunted for dry sticks, which wasn't easy. Thankfully, the BioStove lights easily and it takes hardly any time to get enough heat going to cook some hot dogs on the grill attachment.
All in all, it was a great day. The temperature dropped pretty low by the time we ate, but otherwise, it was a great day.
Thursday, January 2, 2014
Christmas Holiday Fun
Yikes! Has it really been more than a month since I last posted? I know every year I always feel like Christmas has snuck up on me, but this year was way worse than usual. Between the kids school projects, after school activities, baking for school parties and everyone getting a nasty cold, we didn't even start our holiday shopping until last week.
Usually by mid November I've got a list of holiday baking I want to do, at least some gifts bought, and a list of things to do while the kids are home from school. This year I got nothing done. No planning, no lists, and no ideas. Of course it didn't help that the kids wouldn't tell me what they wanted. It's a sad thing when they've reached the age where nothing in the Sears Christmas Catalogue appeals to them.
I had also hoped to have a list of outdoor related gifts to write about, but the truth is, it's kind of depressing for the kids to get gifts they can't use for five months, so the hammock tents I wanted to get them, while cool, wouldn't have been all that fun for Christmas morning. Plus, I just get a little panicky when I think of them not being in the tent with me...
So, while I had hoped to be able to buy lots of camping related gifts, I didn't. We got the kids new inflatable camp pillows from MEC, and they got nice sleeping pads from MEC from Chris's sister. My parents got me a reflector oven, which I'm so excited to try. I almost came directly home from their house and started a fire in the driveway but it was -20 and all the wood we had was buried under 2 feet of snow. I guess I'll settle for watching videos and searching up recipe ideas.
And as for planning fun stuff over the holiday? After two days of freezing rain, it's not looking like we'll be going anywhere. Chris didn't really get any extra days off either, and lets face it, it's been pretty darn cold to be out on long hikes or flying down the hill on a snowboard. There's free public skating at the local rec centre for at least one hour a day (except christmas day and new years day) We took advantage of that a few times and are hoping to get up to Algonquin for a day before school starts up again.
Usually by mid November I've got a list of holiday baking I want to do, at least some gifts bought, and a list of things to do while the kids are home from school. This year I got nothing done. No planning, no lists, and no ideas. Of course it didn't help that the kids wouldn't tell me what they wanted. It's a sad thing when they've reached the age where nothing in the Sears Christmas Catalogue appeals to them.
I had also hoped to have a list of outdoor related gifts to write about, but the truth is, it's kind of depressing for the kids to get gifts they can't use for five months, so the hammock tents I wanted to get them, while cool, wouldn't have been all that fun for Christmas morning. Plus, I just get a little panicky when I think of them not being in the tent with me...
So, while I had hoped to be able to buy lots of camping related gifts, I didn't. We got the kids new inflatable camp pillows from MEC, and they got nice sleeping pads from MEC from Chris's sister. My parents got me a reflector oven, which I'm so excited to try. I almost came directly home from their house and started a fire in the driveway but it was -20 and all the wood we had was buried under 2 feet of snow. I guess I'll settle for watching videos and searching up recipe ideas.
And as for planning fun stuff over the holiday? After two days of freezing rain, it's not looking like we'll be going anywhere. Chris didn't really get any extra days off either, and lets face it, it's been pretty darn cold to be out on long hikes or flying down the hill on a snowboard. There's free public skating at the local rec centre for at least one hour a day (except christmas day and new years day) We took advantage of that a few times and are hoping to get up to Algonquin for a day before school starts up again.
Friday, November 8, 2013
End of season thoughts
I hate to admit it, but I think our camping season is over. I may be able to convince Chris to do a trip to Mew in the Boler in November, but I won't be holding my breath.
While I was going through the trip logs, adding links to the Log page for easier navigating, I started thinking about the summer as a whole.
1) We went on a fair number of trips this summer! Yay us! 11 camping trips is pretty good. We also managed to camp at least once a month, for 8 months straight. That's pretty good for us. I'm really proud of us for taking the chance on the early spring excursion, even though it seemed crazy to be camping with snow on the ground.
2) We didn't do as much hiking this year. Though we did some trails while camping, there were less day trips. I had planned to do a lot of picnicking but that didn't really happen.
3) All but one of our trips was front country! This was the biggest bummer because we all really wanted to go back country canoeing this year. So why didn't we? Well, we had booked a lot of trips early in the spring, and those took up a lot of Chris's time off. The trip with our friends is an annual thing we don't want to give up, and my mum and I have so much fun planning trips, it was hard not to get all excited about booking them. Here's the thing. By mid February, I'm getting antsy, and I want to be assured of some camping time being locked down. Booking early means WE ARE GOING. While the thought of crown land camping, or going somewhere that doesn't require a reservation (unmaintained provincial parks) is very appealing, there's that niggling worry in my mind that if we haven't booked it, and paid for it, something small will come up and we will cancel or postpone the trip and it just won't happen. It's easy to say this summer we are going to do this canoe route and this one...but unless we actually put it on a calendar and lock it down, it doesn't happen.
So what can I do to avoid this? I think being prepared is the best thing to do. Having food already for a back country trip will ease the stress and reduce the excuses. It can be surprisingly expensive to shop last minute for a camping trip. I suppose you could always go with a few boxes of instant oatmeal for breakfast, KD for dinner, and granola bars for lunch, but I want to eat real food out there...not just garbage. So that's one of my goals over the winter, have enough dehydrated trail meals made up and hidden away in the freezer so that all that's left to do for a trip is pack the food into our barrel. It would be much easier to do spontaneous short trips if there wasn't days of preparing dried food to do before we could leave.
4) I really want to do at least one long trip next year. Short trips are fine, but it seems like so much effort and time goes into planning them, and you don't get all that much actual camping time. I am hoping next year to do a week long trip to Achray, giving us lots of time to get to all the things we wanted to do this year. Is there much difference between planning and packing for a long trip and for a short one? Other than maybe more clothes, and a bigger menu, I guess not.
5) We tried a fair bit of new things with our food this year. We did a lot of spaghetti last year, but this year we tried nachos, experimented with spam, cooked a turkey dinner and made a variety of pre made dinners for the night of our arrivals. Oddly enough, when I asked the kids what their favourite camp dinner was from this summer, Bubbie's response was spaghetti. She says there's something so much better about eating spaghetti when camping..Squatch's was the Spam hash.
It's kind of sad to be cleaning out the boler, packing up the gear and putting away things for the winter. I've been putting it off but there's no denying it's cold and yucky outside. I guess it's time to pull out the snowshoes and skis and make sure everything still fits.
While I was going through the trip logs, adding links to the Log page for easier navigating, I started thinking about the summer as a whole.
1) We went on a fair number of trips this summer! Yay us! 11 camping trips is pretty good. We also managed to camp at least once a month, for 8 months straight. That's pretty good for us. I'm really proud of us for taking the chance on the early spring excursion, even though it seemed crazy to be camping with snow on the ground.
2) We didn't do as much hiking this year. Though we did some trails while camping, there were less day trips. I had planned to do a lot of picnicking but that didn't really happen.
3) All but one of our trips was front country! This was the biggest bummer because we all really wanted to go back country canoeing this year. So why didn't we? Well, we had booked a lot of trips early in the spring, and those took up a lot of Chris's time off. The trip with our friends is an annual thing we don't want to give up, and my mum and I have so much fun planning trips, it was hard not to get all excited about booking them. Here's the thing. By mid February, I'm getting antsy, and I want to be assured of some camping time being locked down. Booking early means WE ARE GOING. While the thought of crown land camping, or going somewhere that doesn't require a reservation (unmaintained provincial parks) is very appealing, there's that niggling worry in my mind that if we haven't booked it, and paid for it, something small will come up and we will cancel or postpone the trip and it just won't happen. It's easy to say this summer we are going to do this canoe route and this one...but unless we actually put it on a calendar and lock it down, it doesn't happen.
So what can I do to avoid this? I think being prepared is the best thing to do. Having food already for a back country trip will ease the stress and reduce the excuses. It can be surprisingly expensive to shop last minute for a camping trip. I suppose you could always go with a few boxes of instant oatmeal for breakfast, KD for dinner, and granola bars for lunch, but I want to eat real food out there...not just garbage. So that's one of my goals over the winter, have enough dehydrated trail meals made up and hidden away in the freezer so that all that's left to do for a trip is pack the food into our barrel. It would be much easier to do spontaneous short trips if there wasn't days of preparing dried food to do before we could leave.
4) I really want to do at least one long trip next year. Short trips are fine, but it seems like so much effort and time goes into planning them, and you don't get all that much actual camping time. I am hoping next year to do a week long trip to Achray, giving us lots of time to get to all the things we wanted to do this year. Is there much difference between planning and packing for a long trip and for a short one? Other than maybe more clothes, and a bigger menu, I guess not.
5) We tried a fair bit of new things with our food this year. We did a lot of spaghetti last year, but this year we tried nachos, experimented with spam, cooked a turkey dinner and made a variety of pre made dinners for the night of our arrivals. Oddly enough, when I asked the kids what their favourite camp dinner was from this summer, Bubbie's response was spaghetti. She says there's something so much better about eating spaghetti when camping..Squatch's was the Spam hash.
It's kind of sad to be cleaning out the boler, packing up the gear and putting away things for the winter. I've been putting it off but there's no denying it's cold and yucky outside. I guess it's time to pull out the snowshoes and skis and make sure everything still fits.
Saturday, November 2, 2013
Trip Log: Arrowhead Provincial Park - September 20-22, 2013
This trip to Arrowhead ended up being put off twice. Originally, it had been booked for the sunday/monday of the august long weekend but plans for Chris's sister fell through, so we ended up rescheduling it to the second weekend of September...then Chris couldn't get that weekend off and we bumped it to the following weekend. Our friends were going to join us, but then they had family obligations and we ended up heading up to Huntsville on our own. We didn't get to the site until well after dark, probably about 9 or 9:30. We simply backed the Boler into the middle of the site, and went to bed. It was raining and a bit chilly, but inside the trailer we felt like we were in a sauna. It was so humid and warm, we all ended up on top of our sleeping bags.
The next morning was chilly and still drizzly. I cooked up some Spam Hash and we set up the screen tent over the picnic table to give us some shelter from the rain. We also moved the trailer so it wasn't right in the centre of the site. Unfortunately, the extension cord we brought was about 5 feet too short (it was a 100ft cord.) This wouldn't have been an issue if the electrical outlet wasn't on the site of the site with the fire pit, meaning we couldn't get any closer to close the gap.
We all hiked down to Stubb's Falls before lunch. There were a lot of people there, including some men who were camped down the river. I took a few pictures while Chris tried fly fishing in the little pool at the bottom of the falls. Biscuit made things difficult because he was so eager to check everything out he ended up dragging the kids all over the place. I didn't get much chance to play with the camera because I had to hold him or risk Squatch falling into the water.
Before we walked back, we took a walk to the site we would have been staying at had we gone on our original dates back in August. As we were heading back, we noticed a campsite I'd passed that morning while walking the dog. Two young men had been at the site then, and it was clear they had left. Their tent and gear was gone, but they'd left the fire going, and they'd left both picnic tables covered in garbage. I've seen a few sites with the odd bit of garbage on it, or people who leaved their bags of garbage hanging from the site's number post thinking there is a garbage service coming to clean up after them, but this was just laziness. There were scattered bottles and wrappers, a foil baking pan, an empty firewood bag. It wasn't just a "oops didn't notice that can tucked behind the picnic table leg" it looked like a very small high school party had happened and partiers had fled before the parents showed up. It was very disheartening.
The plan was for my parents to drive up for dinner, so when we got back to camp, I started up the charcoal for a yummy Dutch Oven beef roast with potatoes, carrots and squash. Mum and Dad showed up not long after and we left Chris with the food while we walked down to the falls again. Dad had just bought a GoPro and wanted to try it out. (They also picked us up a 10 foot extension cord to add to ours so we could use the heater that night...it ended up being pretty darn chilly and we were thankful for the warmth.)
When we got back, dinner was ready, and we all crammed into the trailer to eat since everything was wet out side. We had our screen tent over the picnic table, but the picnic table didn't dry much with the air being so damp. Mum had brought salad, and a cake for dessert. Poor Biscuit was so tired he kept nodding off while leaning against Mum's leg but he was to worried he might miss a yummy treat if he fell asleep.
Mum and Dad left shortly after dinner for the drive back south. The kids and Chris had spent a good part of the day playing cards and after dinner we taught them how to play a game my parents and their friends came up with a long time ago. I'm hoping to do a how-to video of this game because it really is a lot of fun...especially if you and your friends have had a few drinks.
When we went to bed that night, Biscuit did his normal pre-slumber routine of chewing lightly on his sleeping bag...but he was so tired he fell asleep face down with a mouthful of blanket. I seriously thought he was dead. I went to nudge him and he woke up snarling. He really doesn't like his sleep being interrupted.
It was still drizzling and cold the next morning. Breakfast was cereal this morning. Everyone else lay around in their beds in the warm trailer while I took Biscuit for a walk. He gets annoyed being cooped up in the Boler, but hasn't yet learned to just relax while tied up outside either. He wants to be right with us, and since I'm usually cooking, that also means he has plenty of opportunity to get up on the table.
On the way home we stopped in Gravenhurst for some coffee and a bathroom break. Chris managed a 3 point turn in the parking lot there, which, if you've ever been to that Timmies, you'll know it's quite a feat with a trailer.
The next morning was chilly and still drizzly. I cooked up some Spam Hash and we set up the screen tent over the picnic table to give us some shelter from the rain. We also moved the trailer so it wasn't right in the centre of the site. Unfortunately, the extension cord we brought was about 5 feet too short (it was a 100ft cord.) This wouldn't have been an issue if the electrical outlet wasn't on the site of the site with the fire pit, meaning we couldn't get any closer to close the gap.
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| Chris carrying Biscuit down the stairs to Stubb's Falls |
Before we walked back, we took a walk to the site we would have been staying at had we gone on our original dates back in August. As we were heading back, we noticed a campsite I'd passed that morning while walking the dog. Two young men had been at the site then, and it was clear they had left. Their tent and gear was gone, but they'd left the fire going, and they'd left both picnic tables covered in garbage. I've seen a few sites with the odd bit of garbage on it, or people who leaved their bags of garbage hanging from the site's number post thinking there is a garbage service coming to clean up after them, but this was just laziness. There were scattered bottles and wrappers, a foil baking pan, an empty firewood bag. It wasn't just a "oops didn't notice that can tucked behind the picnic table leg" it looked like a very small high school party had happened and partiers had fled before the parents showed up. It was very disheartening.
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| Heron near the base of Stubb's Falls |
When we got back, dinner was ready, and we all crammed into the trailer to eat since everything was wet out side. We had our screen tent over the picnic table, but the picnic table didn't dry much with the air being so damp. Mum had brought salad, and a cake for dessert. Poor Biscuit was so tired he kept nodding off while leaning against Mum's leg but he was to worried he might miss a yummy treat if he fell asleep.
Mum and Dad left shortly after dinner for the drive back south. The kids and Chris had spent a good part of the day playing cards and after dinner we taught them how to play a game my parents and their friends came up with a long time ago. I'm hoping to do a how-to video of this game because it really is a lot of fun...especially if you and your friends have had a few drinks.
When we went to bed that night, Biscuit did his normal pre-slumber routine of chewing lightly on his sleeping bag...but he was so tired he fell asleep face down with a mouthful of blanket. I seriously thought he was dead. I went to nudge him and he woke up snarling. He really doesn't like his sleep being interrupted.
It was still drizzling and cold the next morning. Breakfast was cereal this morning. Everyone else lay around in their beds in the warm trailer while I took Biscuit for a walk. He gets annoyed being cooped up in the Boler, but hasn't yet learned to just relax while tied up outside either. He wants to be right with us, and since I'm usually cooking, that also means he has plenty of opportunity to get up on the table.
On the way home we stopped in Gravenhurst for some coffee and a bathroom break. Chris managed a 3 point turn in the parking lot there, which, if you've ever been to that Timmies, you'll know it's quite a feat with a trailer.
Sunday, October 20, 2013
Trip Log: Presquile Provincial Park - May 21-23, 2012
I was adding more links to the Trip Log's page this morning when I realized I hadn't actually posted a trip log for our trip to Presquile last year. I wrote a review of the park, but no trip log. As this is the trip we still hold up as the standard to which all other trips get compared to (well, up until we went to Achray, now its our unanimous favourite), I should probably write up what I can remember.
From what I recall, it didn't start well. The drive wasn't long, maybe an hour and a half, but the kids complained most of the way. That might have had something to do with the fact the dogs were in the back of the car, huffing bad breath and drooling over their shoulders. I can't really blame them for not enjoying the trip to the park.
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| The beach at our campsite |
I can't remember what we had for dinner that night, just that I made bumbleberry crisp on the BBQ. I remember the kids spent most of their time looking for fossils in the rocks on shore and when dinner was ready, I kept calling them but they couldn't hear over the sound of the waves and wind coming off Lake Ontario. They found quite a few, and this became the main source of fun for the whole trip. Chris got them into their swimsuits at one point and they waded into the water. Dixie went along for the little walk. She didn't like Chris being out of her sight, and whined when he's not around. We went for a short walk along the bike bath then had a quick campfire so the kids could roast some marshmallows.
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| Our site at Presqui'le |
The next morning the kids went right back to searching for fossils and wading in the water. I don't remember what Chris and I had for breakfast, probably eggs and bacon, but the kids had cold cereal (as usual) Pretty much the whole trip was spent on the shore of our site. At one point Chris tried out his new "footie" shoes and ran to the lighthouse and back. We also did the boardwalk before dinner our second day. It started to rumble while on the hike, but I don't think we got more than a sprinkle of rain. While the kids and Chris were playing in the water, I went for a walk and saw a family of swans in a little pond. We also had to make a run in to Trenton to the Walmart for more propane.
Looking back I don't know why this held top spot on our list of favourite camping trips. We didn't do anything super memorable, but I guess it's not about that (otherwise we'd go to Wonderland several times a summer.) What made this trip so good was the good weather, the lack of bugs, and the fact the kids never had an "I'm bored" moment.  |
| Approaching storm over lake ontario |
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