Adventures in the outdoors
The best thing about having our own canoe is that I can wake up in the morning, look at the weather, and decide it’s time for a paddle adventure. Prior to this we would have to beg, borrow or rent a canoe. Times have changed and I am happy for this. So, on the long weekend when the weather finally produced some sun, off we went for our next paddle adventure. This time we headed to Bon Echo Provincial Park. We would paddle out to the Mazinaw Rcok Pictographs.
If you have been following our adventures, you know we are frequent flyers to Frontenac Provincial Park. This Mother’s Day weekend, we decided to hike a section of the Slide Lake Loop. The main loop is 21 kilometres, with a haul to the park office, making it way too big for my little guys legs to complete. So instead, listed on the Friends of Frontenac website, we opted for the Small Slide Lake Loop which we would access off the Rideau Trail off of Perth Road. This would be a more manageable 13 kilometre hike instead.
Last year around this time we headed out to Ferris Provincial Park to hike some of their trails. This park is right outside Campbellford, and we have visited many times either geocaching, biking, hiking or just checking out the water and the suspension bridge. Today we planned to hike some trails on the interior of the park.
It’s great when my parents visit and the weather cooperates. This year we were able to spend the time outside on more than one occasion. The first was taking my mom up and down the Moira River in our canoe, and today was a family event where we hiked the Lakeview Trail at Sandbanks Provincial Park.