After our trip to Big East Lake in the Haliburton Highland Water Trails we made a very spontaneous decision… Well if you know me, you know that on trips this is a very common occurrence. I am famous for making spontaneous stops at attractions just to “check it out”.
Continue reading “Wolves You Say?”Big East Overnight Trip
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.
Continue reading “Big East Overnight Trip”Bonjour Quebec City
Bonjour! Nous sommes arrivés à Québec City! Ok that’s the extend of my French abilities, aka Google translate helped. We had a full day planned for Quebec City and it started early. We knew that parking would not be cheap, or easy to find for that fact, so we headed in to the city and luckily found a spot in the garage across from the Museum of Civilization. This location was awesome as it would place us right next to the evening fireworks, and close enough to all the main tourist attractions we wanted to see.
Kawartha Reboot
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.