Adventures in the outdoors
We are really fortunate that the ice was out in our area at the end of April, giving us the opportunity to go for a very early May canoe trip. This was our first time getting out this early in our canoe, so to say that I was excited was an understatement!
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As the 2018 canoeing season was nearing it’s end, we really wanted to get out in our canoe at least one more time and after some consideration, we decided that it was time to visit an area that is fairly new to us. In the spring I had headed to the Haliburton Highland Water Trails for a solo trip and I knew that we should come back to this park, so we booked a night on Big East.
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When ticket sales started for the Ontario Backcountry Canoe Symposium in April 2019, it got me thinking back to August when we headed out to Kawartha Highlands for a weekend adventure. The park is located just over an hour drive from us and offers smaller lakes with equally small portages (for the most part), so it makes for an easy last minute weekend getaway.
The first evening of our trip had passed, bringing the first morning of my 40s, but that was OK because Christina and I had been having a great time on our trip so far and there was more fun to be had. There was some rain overnight and it was still sprinkling a little in the morning as we crawled out of our tents, but that didn’t bother us. We had no set plans for the day, but we knew there would be more fishing! If you missed it, click here to read about part 1.