Five minutes into my first trip with our new red barrels and someone stopped to ask where we got them. We have always had a yellow Eureka barrel. We liked it because it wasn’t blue like all the other barrels out there. But after years of trips and wear & tear, including handle replacement, we . . . Read More about New Barrels
Camping
Freeze Dried Meals
Traverse Portable Food – what a discovery! Someone in my home community of Peterborough Ontario has a business making freeze dried meals for campers and hikers. This was a new business, so it made sense that we hadn’t heard about them. Someone I knew through work mentioned it because they had heard I liked camping. . . . Read More about Freeze Dried Meals
Spider Lake for Seniors
We camp, we take a lot of stuff, we are happy. 22 days over three trips into Massasauga Provincial Park in one summer – well that was a first. On one of these trips we stayed on three sites, all on Spider Lake. One portage in and one portage out, the rest of the time . . . Read More about Spider Lake for Seniors
Vicary Lake and Spider Lake
We have talked about staying on Vicary Lake ever since we paddled through it on the way to Creswick Lake many years ago. We had a memory of the sites being very close together so we only wanted to go if we knew the people on the other site. Finally, we were able to book . . . Read More about Vicary Lake and Spider Lake
Storms
The tent was breathing. That was how my husband described the tent during the storm we had just survived. The wind was so strong our tent would collapse and then it would spring back, then collapse again, like lungs. The roar ended and the tent was still standing. My hands were still shaking when I . . . Read More about Storms
Pandemic Camping
75 is the new 45 – well at least for my brother-in-law it is. We did 7 days, 3 sites and 6 portages and he rocked the trip – heading across the portages like he was born with a canoe on his head. My sister-in-law is a mere 72 but continues to be an inspiration . . . Read More about Pandemic Camping
A Two Site Trip
It was our first trip without John, our long-time paddling partner. Our other paddling partners were not sure how long they would be able to camp this year, so we only booked an 8 day trip on Spider Lake in Massassauga Provincial Park. I was dealing with an ongoing knee injury too, so we wanted . . . Read More about A Two Site Trip
Vixen Lake Challenge
You know things are bad when the dog won’t get out of the canoe. We arrived at our site and told him he could jump out, but he just sat there. It was the strangest thing. He is usually just raring to go stretch his legs and do some serious sniffing. I was wondering if . . . Read More about Vixen Lake Challenge
Why I Camp
I think my brother-in-law said it best when he told a friend that he gets to enjoy a million dollar view for $14.00 a night. No neighbours and no grass to cut. How could it get any better than that? I have been pining for my canoe and paddle all winter so I put together . . . Read More about Why I Camp
In Tents
Honestly, I thought we were going to freeze to death the first time we slept in our new tent. It was early April when our nephew called us to say that they were going to camp on the long weekend because the forecast was calling for daytime temperatures of 17 degree Celsius. They invited us . . . Read More about In Tents