Adventures in the outdoors
Over the past few weeks we have been venturing out to many of our local conservation areas and public parks to explore and enjoy the winter season. With many of our other travel and outdoor plans cancelled, it’s been a great time to revisit these local places – some of which we haven’t been to for years – and (re)discover new outdoor opportunities that are close to home.
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Have you ever been Geocaching? Do you even know what this means? Well let me fill you in. Geocaching is like a treasure hunt. People from all over the world hide containers of various sizes, mark their location on a GPS, and then upload the coordinates to a website. Your job is to download these coordinates, find the hidden container and “claim” your treasure.
Here is another edition of a review for local conservation areas in the Quinte Region. My entire crew was with me again on this adventure to Vanderwater. The map in the link is currently the older map as this conservation area is up for some trail re-routing. Please note that this is a hike at your own risk until the trails are updated. We have been here many times, so we are very familiar with the trail system.
This year our Family Day was a little different. We have been down and sick with the flu, so our outdoor activity time was minimal. That doesn’t mean that we didn’t get outside at least once this weekend. We decided to stay close to home just in case we started to not feel 100% anymore.