Adventures in the outdoors
I had planned to do a solo trip at the end of September, but when I mentioned doing a trip to my friend Maya (who I completed the Basic Canoe instructor course with a few weeks prior) that plan changed and we decided to go to Kingscote Lake together. We planned to do some fishing and exploring, but we didn’t expect to also be catching the start of the fall colour change in Algonquin Park.
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Fall is such a lovely time around here to chase colors and camp in cooler and more comfortable conditions, at least in my opinion. We are definitely fonder of the cooler fall temperatures around Ontario than those hot and humid summer days. Even though those are lovely, but in short spurts. We knew that there was no way we would venture north to Algonquin on Thanksgiving weekend as the crowds tend to be…. a little crazy, so we waited for the weekend after.
On Thanksgiving this year, we decided to head to Lake Placid. With a 5 hour drive on the way there, we decided to stop at the Wild Center in Tubber Lake to check out their new display, an interactive Wild Walk which is located about 30 feet in the air. Years ago we had visited this place, and they were just in the process of building this new interactive display.
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The past few years we have gone camping in Arrowhead Provincial Park on the Thanksgiving weekend to catch the fall colors. This year we knew the colors were not the best, so we decided to do something a little different. For Thanksgiving this year, we headed to Lake Placid in New York State. We have been here twice before, but the timing was lining up nicely with the fall color reports for the area.
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