tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75239418588056617982024-03-13T06:03:46.096-04:00Ontario Provincial Parks: Best Campsites and ReviewsOntario Provincial Parks are Rated and Reviewed in this 14 year experiment. Robert C Fidler and Beverley Galandzy will try to see all the provincial parks. Pictures, best campsites, grading, stories and humour fill this blog. Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.comBlogger29125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-16576295067287070372019-08-18T14:55:00.000-04:002019-08-18T14:55:41.727-04:00Earl Rowe Provincial Park : Earl ROWe, roWE, rOWE your Boat because YOU cAn't SWIM here (for free)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<u>For Those In The Know</u><br />
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At the end of an amazing summer of camping in 2015,<br />
Bev and I went to Earl Rowe Provincial Park because we're so keen. <br />
Just outside of New Tecumseh or Allison<br />
is Earl Rowe, an easy drive for anyone,<br />
(if someone can explain why this place has two names I'd be forever grateful)<br />
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By anyone, I mean if living in south western Ontario,<br />
it's only an hour twenty from our home of Toronto,<br />
making for us an easy weekend furlough,<br />
I just wish we were in the know.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bad for swimming, Great for birding.</td></tr>
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In 1964 Earl Rowe Lake was man made,<br />
And if bacteria levels are high, swimming chances may fade.<br />
But do not fret if wading is your thing,<br />
There is a one acre pool fit for a very young king.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Although quite nifty the cost is three dollars fifty.</td></tr>
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With six hikes, one can spend some time there,<br />
We did all six in a day with half of it to spare.<br />
The Lookout Trail is the best one by far,<br />
Most trails were planned so you don't use your car.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you doing this one, you must also do the trail named Rainbow Run.</td></tr>
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With four hundred and two sites there is tonnes of room,<br />
But not many sites are private as you might assume,<br />
So if to Earl Rowe you are planning to go,<br />
At least now you are in the know.<br />
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(Best sites at Earl Rowe Provincial Park 1, 12, 19, 24, 34, 53, 61, 65, 66, 68, 82, 93, 94, 97, 105, 110, 118, 121, 125, 257, 417, 419, 422, 424, 606, 607, 614, 622, 624, 628, 629, 632, 633, 634.)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our site 65 was a great spot,</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And hidden in the trees is a second tent lot.</td></tr>
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<b><b>Site Cleanliness:</b> </b>It wasn't the best,<br />
It was a bit of a mess. <br />
But we went at the end of the season,<br />
So that was probably the reason. <br />
There was a rake,<br />
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<b><b>Privacy:</b> </b>We luckily picked the best spot<br />
And because of that we loved it a lot.<br />
With 400 sites and only 53 that meet the mark,<br />
This may not be the best privacy park.</div>
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<b><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> </b>The hikes could fill part of one whole day,<br />
And with only weekday programs I guess the weekends are for adult play.<br />
<b><br /></b><b>Park Class: </b>For a quickie vacation,<br />
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> </span></b>With a man made lake that someone should skim, <br />
It still chaps my bum that you have to pay to swim. <br />
There are no sites right on the beach,<br />
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<b>Recommended Length of Stay: </b>Depending on what you want to do,<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> I have to say, by now I'm sure you are tired of the rhyming, </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> As am I, but I will stop my whining. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> We had a great time with family sitting around the fire, </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> Eating and talking until we got tired. </span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;"> As long as you know there is no swimming (except in the pool), </span><br />
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<b>Rating out of 103:</b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> 81 </b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"> Cause it was lots of fun, </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#2 Algonquin</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#21 Neys</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#22 Wakami Lake</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#23 Nagagamisis</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#26 Pancake Bay</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#29 Chutes</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#30 White Lake</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#49 Marten River</span></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#51.5 Silent Lake</span></b></b></span></div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-49260856765089992852019-08-18T14:53:00.000-04:002019-08-18T14:53:56.479-04:00Potholes Provincial Park : A Mystery with Twists and Turns<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
It was a dark and stormy day on the desolate road between Nipigon and Hearst. Tired, with one eye on the road, the options were the ditch or a lonely thirty second ring road. Choosing the latter, we retreated from the car to stretch our legs unbeknownst what awaited our weary bodies on the trail ahead. Stumbling up the root ridden trail under the ominous tree cover we came to an earthly hole in the Canadian shield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Glacial Pothole or Finnish hot tub?</td></tr>
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Now, either there is a bend in space time along the root ridden trail, a pothole porthole, or aliens abducted Bev and I and altered our memories. Because, on another lonely long highway numbered 101 between Wawa and Chapleau there is a dank day use park named <a href="https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/potholes" target="_blank">Potholes Provincial Nature Reserve</a> and, as far as we know, Bev and I have never visited this place. We did however heave ourselves laboriously to a Potholes Provincial Park on highway 11. Where were we on highway 11? No one knows because it is not on any map, I've looked, and we are both convinced it was on highway 11 not 101. It must be a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVfxFaFEGjo" target="_blank">conspiracy of cartographers</a> or a binary bizarro-world. The potholes were created when bones and rocks are carried by water and the water hits a eddy where mainly the rocks wear away a circular hole in the Canadian shield.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">An ancient toilet?</td></tr>
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There is usually a boulder bed (where boulders sleep) near these potholes where the glaciers have littered horribly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lazy Boulders or Dirty Glaciers, I can't decide.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the highway on the map.</td></tr>
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I am %100 certain we saw this just off highway 11, but this map shows it on highway 101.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only thing wrong with this is the number on the highway.</td></tr>
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And again this map points out of the parking lot and back to highway 101, but after running back to our car in fear, at the end of <b>our</b> parking lot was only highway 11 and the desolate boreal forest. I truly cannot wait until we return to either of these places in future. Or maybe a rock carried by water may hit an eddy and make it all disappear.<br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> </span>One hike of a half of an hour return to see the sight.</div>
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<b>Recommended Length of Stay:</b> One hour if you want to see the Potholes and have a half hour picnic lunch as well.<br />
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<b>Overall Impression:</b> It is just worth a peek. If you are going by and need a break from driving I would check it out, but otherwise... Now maybe the one on highway 101 is different.<br />
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<b>Rating out of 14:</b> #11 is where I'm placing this one because of the highway it is on. It's great if you are into geology or glaciers. But it is only about one geology/glacier element. We have only seen two day use parks and they couldn't be more different -- one good and the other, however interesting, less so. Or is it? Man all this going around in circles is making me dizzy.<br />
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P.S. Bev and I just returned (2017) from a whirlwind trip to tumultuous Thunder Bay and we took the 101 on the way to our next park and guess what we found? As if an apparition Potholes Provincial Park appeared and was precisely where the map said it would be. What a silly bunt -- I'm loosing my mind.</div>
Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-41271801757168208272016-07-08T17:18:00.000-04:002016-07-08T17:18:41.957-04:00An Open Letter to the Friends of Bon Echo Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Dear Friends of Bon Echo,<br />
So after going to your friend and mine, <a href="https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/bonecho" target="_blank">Bon Echo Provincial Park</a>, for our big camping week in 2015, I have a single question. Namely, how do you become a permanent friend of Bon Echo? To find my answer I went to your site <a href="http://www.bonechofriends.ca/">http://www.bonechofriends.ca</a>. A top your home page you ask for donations then welcome me to your site. No thank you and thank you, in that order. No offence.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I made my Grandfather's outfit look as cool as possible just for you.</td></tr>
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For the second heading on your website you state your values; "<span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The Friends of Bon Echo Park is an association of volunteers." I'm in. "We value the significance of teamwork," Bev and I work okay together. "And initiative in effecting change." I think I'm showing that by writing this Blog, whether I change anything or not is up for debate. "We are empowered to serve this active provincial park by our commitment to our natural and cultural heritage." Ready and willing to serve. "We strive to act in a manner that is environmentally conscientious." </span></span></span>Firstly, whenever I arrive at a campsite I always pick up any garbage I see which is serving the active park and environmentally conscientious. While this is not unique to Bon Echo it should show you the level of respect I have not only for Bon Echo, but all of its ilk. For all of your future friends out there I thought it would be good to serve this active park by telling everyone the best sites first. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site #317 at cocktail hour, just before fancy time. The main beach is just beyond the trees.</td></tr>
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Our favourite sites, not to say any of them are bad, are; in Sawmill Bay #'s 5, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 34, 52, 62, 64, 66, 67, 79, 102, 105, 115, 135, 137, 139, 150, 160, and all of the walk-in sites 164 to 168 with possibly the best site in the park being site 166. In the Midway #'s 221, 224, 233, 240, 242, 243, and 247. In the Fairway #'s 289, 290, 292, 295, 302, 304, 306, 308, 309, 311, 315, 317, 318, 320, 321, 350, 352, 354, 356, 358, 359, 360, 362, 383, 388, 389, 393, 394, 396, and 400. And in full disclosure we only checked out half the sites in Hardwood Hill (story to come later) but here are the #'s 406, 407, 408, 410, 412, 413, 424, 425, 426, 428, 433, 434, 435, 437, 441, 447, 451, 453, 454, 456, 458, 464, 465... Lastly every site in Joe Perry cannot be beat -- 500 to 525.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev photo bombing my main beach picture.</td></tr>
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The last heading on the homepage of your website you state your vision, mine's 20/20 so far:<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> "</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Vision is to provide and assist activities that encourage recognition of the inherent beauty of the environment as well as the dedicated balance in the natural habitat." </span><span style="color: #596f80; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </span></span></span>I have always been told that you must have meals while camping that are better than you have at home. We thought that this meal would encourage the inherent beauty of Bon Echo and we "spared no expense", Jurassic Park style.<br />
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You state in your vision that you, "endeavour to generate a positive climate within the park" and what better way to do that then to exercise through hiking. To try to do all the hikes at Bon Echo you really can't stand still and with that in mind we hiked the Bon Echo Creek Trail (1.4km/ 1 hour) the first night. This is a perfect after dinner stroll along Bon Echo Creek which is easily accessible from the main beach. Here one can see some water fowl, mushrooms (yeah!), chipmunks, and a variety of hardwood trees. Mosquito kill 16. The Shield Trail (4.8km/ 2 hours), mosquito kill 37, black fly kill 14; and High Pines Trail (1.7km/ 1 hour), mosquito kill 11, black fly kill 4; are both moderate trails that show different landscapes of the park as denoted by their names and of course mushrooms, specifically some perfectly ripe oyster mushrooms! (photo at the bottom of the blog)<br />
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Penultimately, the Cliff Top Trail (1.5km/ 1 hour), no kills, which can only be reached by ferry or you should rent a canoe. This is a must see. Now not to be negative but for all of the aforementioned hikes there were number posts without any trail guides. I am more than willing to help with these, but was told by the staff that they are on the way. I hope that this negativity doesn't stop us from being friends so here is the positively splendiferous view at the cliff top.<br />
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And while you have the canoe rented you must go and see the pictographs immediately north of the Walt Whitman memorial. It is our cultural heritage and I'm encouraging everyone to see it.<br />
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The last line of your vision states, "<span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Projects in which we engage, endeavour to generate a positive climate within the Park."</span></span><strong style="color: #596f80; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;"> </strong><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;">To that end as you may have </span><span style="font-size: 15px;">already noticed we tried to massacre an entire year of bugs. Well</span></span>, for some time Bev and I have been touting the amazing Watkin's Bug Repellent as the only thing we will use.<br />
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The Deet is high, but not too high and it is a cream which doesn't dry out your skin or leave a plastic like film over the areas of application. The Abes and Essens Trail (17km/ 7 hours) may have changed Beverley's mind forever. The only bug repellent we had was the Watkins. Black flies killed 89, Mosquitoes too many to count. (And that's just Rob, Bev refused to count.) Final kill count from all the hikes black flies 107, mosquito infinity. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/kip-sisters-welcomed-home-after-bon-echo-rescue-1.1344326" target="_blank">The Abes and Essens Trail is where once a year someone has to be rescued</a>. It's hilly, obstructed by fallen trees, fairly well marked, and in late June insect infested. If there is one reason we should be a <i>Friend of Bon Echo</i> it is our diligent endeavour to make that trail a positive climate. Bev and I both declared an insect jihad during the breath-taking hike, Bev maybe more so than I.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Notice the footwear for a 5 hour hike. She sure is a trooper.</td></tr>
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Immediately after this hike, I absconded to the gift shop in search of a bigger bug spray and unfortunately bought this.<br />
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I admire your assistance of a small entrepreneur, but for anyone going by the gift shop, don't do it. Since we visited your park in June there were no planned educational programs, but we were presented with an education anyway. On our way to back country camping at Joe Perry I took Bev on one of our classic detours to rate the camp sites of the Hardwood Hills Campground. While perusing the camp sites our trusty Versa gave up the ghost. The engine just stopped. I don't know if you have ever had this experience, but this wasn't my first rodeo. The bad thing was Hardwood Hill wasn't open to the public yet and we were the only civilians there with a really long road back to the gate house (Park Road Trail? 10km/ 2.5 hours). I thought it would be a good idea to get the car off the road so we put it in neutral and accidentally put it in the ditch. Well, the ditch is no place for a car so we then spent an hour trying to push a fully packed car out of the ditch. Then we hit the road in search for saving. Luckily two maintenance staff Kayla and Queenie were driving by and gave us a ride. Praise Bon Echo! When the tow truck driver finally got to our car he glibly remarked, "You could have left it in the ditch." Well duh. Now with no clue whether or not our car was fixable we had to decide whether to continue our adventure to back country camping or give up. After much soul searching we decided that even without a car the show must go on. And with that welcome to back country camping on Joe Perry Lake and the best experience you can have at Bon Echo.<br />
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The opening line of you vision states, <span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-size: 11pt;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Our Vision is to provide and assist activities that encourage recognition of the inherent beauty of the environment as well as the dedicated balance in the natural habitat."</span><b style="color: #596f80; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-style: italic;"> </b></span></span>Well you'd have to be blind to not recognize the inherent beauty and balance at Joe Perry Lake. A note to all the future Friends of Bon Echo -- when going to camp at Joe Perry you will need to hike all of your gear in half a mile to the docks and then canoe to your site. Therefore, only bring what you need or like us bring everything and the kitchen sink, but you were warned about the hike -- fantastically for us because our car died the park ranger drove us to the dock. Bev couldn't have been happier. Now I don't know much about arachnids, but there was the largest one I have ever seen in Ontario waiting to greet us at the dock.<br />
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Things to note for your excursion into back country camping at Joe Perry Lake include; If it works in your plan the canoe rental goes for both Joe Perry Lake and Mazinaw Lake so you can canoe to see the pictographs then travel to Joe Perry and you do not have to pay twice. Joe Perry is full of fish so you can count on a meal of fish while there, we had a delicious large mouth bass, and if you can find a freshwater mussel you can use that as bait instead of bringing worms. Lastly, our site number 502 is undoubtably the best. It has a sandy beach, beautiful view (while being guarded from the elements), hot tub, and of course there were mushrooms everywhere.<br />
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For the people who like hiking there are trails away from site 502, but at all times know where you are as they are unmarked and you don't want to be one of those rescued in the future. If we go back again, Bev and I both agreed that we would return to this site and make day trips into the rest of the park as long as our car was working. To finish that story, our car was towed to the nearest town on Wednesday. On Friday, our last day, I hiked, fingers crossed, back to the gate house. I was lucky enough to hitch a lift from another maintenance staffer from the Hardwood Hill campground after hiking and killing bugs for an hour. Turns out the engine air sensor was plugged with dust and it really only cost us for the tow. Hail Bon Echo, and Versa. I know I'm getting long in the tooth about this park, but in my opinion it deserves it, so in the spirit of friendship, I will now give the ranking and continue for the really keen on the other side.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#2 Algonquin</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#3 Quetico</span></b></b></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#19 Sandbanks</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#21 Neys</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt;"><b><b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">#22 Wakami Lake</span></b></b></b></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site 530 has both this picturesque fire pit and a second spot out of the wind.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oyster Mushrooms. Which we enjoyed with steak.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And a Pale Bolete. Which I didn't touch because we were at Joe Perry.</td></tr>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com4Bon Echo Provincial Park, 16151 ON-41, Cloyne, ON K0H 1K0, Canada44.9149465 -77.25956610000002921.505726499999998 -118.56816010000003 68.3241665 -35.95097210000003tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-86221553923872645332016-02-06T08:25:00.001-05:002016-06-20T14:09:33.783-04:00Sibbald, Sibbald, Sibbald Point Provincial Park, It's (not really) the Campground for Me<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Back in the summer of ought 15, our first stop was <a href="https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/sibbaldpoint" target="_blank">Sibbald Point Provincial Park</a> and one of the easiest camping trips ever. The reasons why are numerous and tedious. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Are you sure you want me to tell you?</td></tr>
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Fine. Sibbald Point is only 70 kilometres north of Toronto so you could come with your family for half a day or a weekend. It only took us an hour to get there on a Saturday morning after a leisurely breakfast and a lazy morning.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All set up at site #2... Now what?</td></tr>
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While there you could swim, and I think that is why most people come to this park. Unfortunately for us it was the start of June and the water was only fit for children under 10 years old and the Finns. The beach was the most popular place even in early June with students of all ages playing beach sports and sun bathing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All this beach and no one in the water.</td></tr>
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If hiking is more your thing, you could do the one easy hike named the Maidenhair Fern Trail that would take you about an hour travelling at a leisure pace. Again because we were there at the start of June there were no trail guides at the trailhead, so we looked at numbered posts and made up our own stories about what we were seeing.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">#5 At this location there are five distinct layers: underground; ground; shrubbery and ferns (look for Maidenhair ferns); immature trees that stay up all night partying; and far above your head the canopy and then the sky, then space. I guess there are seven layers. You may feel your head squishing due to improper camera usage.</td></tr>
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There are massive amounts of picnic area you could relax in while the kids play in the park, fishermen could fish the shallows of Lake Simcoe or large groups could get a game going in the huge play field. For Bev and I in order; no kids (our fault?), no poles (our fault) and, no large group to play a game with (your fault! and ours for not inviting you).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">In hindsight this would be a great place for a Frolf course.</td></tr>
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Lastly there is Sibbald Memorial Museum where you could see how early pioneering farming families lived. Eildon Hall named after <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/mein_susan_9E.html" target="_blank">Susan Mein Sibbald</a>'s (1783-1856) Scottish home is a rural estate that stayed in the Sibbald Family until 1952 and in 1957 opened as Sibbald Point Provincial Park. The museum is open in July and August so visiting in June you see our problem with this one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This ole house is closed!</td></tr>
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Since Beverley and I went in early June we got to see what teenagers do nowadays. I was lucky enough to gab with a gent in the comfort station shortly after we arrived. He was fresh from Ireland so I asked him what he thought of Sibbald Point Provincial Park hoping to get a completely different perspective and an outsiders look at something I love. What I received in a lovely Irish brogue was, "Not really sure. I got proper <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Irish+drunk" target="_blank">Irish drunk</a> last night." It seemed like he and his friends were there... to well... enjoy nature with a beer in your hand. And on that note, the best laugh I had at Sibbald after an afternoon libation.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Actual warning on Henninger Premium Lager from Germany. Poor <a href="http://www.topuertorico.org/" target="_blank">Puerto Rico</a>.</td></tr>
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<!--StartFragment--><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">The best sites at Sibbald Point Provincial Park are 3, 9, 16, 19, 29, 35, 37, 55, 57, 64, 66,
69, 71, 80, 86, 87, 94, 96, 100, 102,
106, 130, 135 to 138, 142, 221, 229, 251, 252, 261, 265, 273, 275, 279, 285, 287, 294, 297, 305, 311, 329, 331,
347, 351, 354, 355, 357, 358 (Bev’s Favourite), 359, 906, and 962. Funny enough when we were there in June the
only sites that were open were 1 to 50, the 400s and the 900s so there were
only 9 sites that would have met our criteria and we didn’t get one of them. There was one thing that made my eyes pop wide open and giggle like a mushroom loving school girl.</span></span><!--EndFragment--></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WPOO_8zun0UepGz8BDr2HzA_YNl2paJ96t1VTrgF_RFgXE4idwcLBjdqqTaQqCBmh_Aih4LNVcA0gGDw52vQn9CCdQ3T9iTg5VCj1NfrCr_ChQ1b2AiJcIC8IR2cHiZLZ_6I0bvCphI/s1600/White+Morel%2521.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="478" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0WPOO_8zun0UepGz8BDr2HzA_YNl2paJ96t1VTrgF_RFgXE4idwcLBjdqqTaQqCBmh_Aih4LNVcA0gGDw52vQn9CCdQ3T9iTg5VCj1NfrCr_ChQ1b2AiJcIC8IR2cHiZLZ_6I0bvCphI/s640/White+Morel%2521.JPG" width="640" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now normally people never tell you where they saw a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morchella" target="_blank">Morel mushroom</a>, but I found one here. Too late, too old, but it's still a Morel!</td></tr>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Privacy:</b> </b>53 sites out of hundreds. Many of the sites I didn't mention could be made private with the proper placement of your tent and car.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> Excellent. The beach is fantastic even though it was too cold for us to go for a dip. From our site it was a 5 minute walk to the beach and I think from the furthest site to the beach would be 15 minutes.</b></b></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>A weekend would be long enough to do and see everything at this park. I would suggest to either go on a really hot weekend or from July to early September.</span></div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> For our first camping of 2015 it was a nice ease in. This park is just above middle of the road, but with being so close to Toronto I'm surprised it's not packed at all times. The beach is great, but the hiking isn't -- there is a museum in the park, fishing, and loads of space to play games, but none of these were we able to do. I truly like this park, but we didn't get the best out of it.</b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 103: </b><span style="font-weight: bold;">69 the dumb joke. For all the fun loving kids at Sibbald Point.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Robin's were the mascot bird of Sibbald Point Provincial Park.</td></tr>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Sibbald Point Provincial Park, 26071 Park Rd, Sutton, ON L0E 1R0, Canada44.327 -79.32220.9177625 -120.630594 67.7362375 -38.013406tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-44035715552455755622016-02-04T09:51:00.000-05:002016-06-20T14:11:17.605-04:00Welcome to Something Completely Different Petroglyphs Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Without actually counting them on a map, you might think it's funny that I have been talking for three years about seeing 108, then 103 <u>overnight camping</u> provincial parks. So today I counted and found out that the Internet is flawed. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Yeah. It's not me Internet, it's you!</td></tr>
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It's always good to do your own homework, but I still might get an F because it's three years late. I'm still blaming the internet. I have now come to some interesting conclusions that may have an effect on what I write about and see in the future. Now everyone put your math hats on; my math hat is a pork pie. The "Parks Guide 2014" (I don't know why I never picked up a 2015 guide) lists a total of 110 separate parks, but 14 of them are day use only. I use the term separate parks because, not including interior or back country, there are 2 campgrounds/parks at <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/10/rainbows-falling-down.html" target="_blank">Rainbow Falls</a>, 3 in Lake Superior Provincial Park, and 11 at <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/08/algonquin-park-north-tea-lake.html" target="_blank">Algonquin</a> for a total of 13 extra campgrounds. Hence we either have 110 separate parks to check out or 109 campgrounds to stay at -- I am choosing the easier task I think by visiting the 110 separate parks, we'll see what Beverley thinks. The first day-use provincial park I am going to talk about is Petroglyphs Provincial Park just south-east of Kawartha Highlands and straight south of <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2014/05/this-is-not-sound-of-silence-silent.html" target="_blank">Silent Lake Provincial Park</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Original Petroglyphs Provincial Park sign. I can almost hear the Hinterland Who's Who theme as I look at this. I think this episode would be about the Long Tailed Turtle </td></tr>
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Petroglyphs Provincial Park houses the largest concentration of rock carvings in Canada. They were accidentally found by a prospector for the Industrial Minerals Department of Canada in 1954, how long they were lost for no one knows.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Everett Davis learning a thing or two while stepping on sacred stone and using black crayon to highlight the carvings.</td></tr>
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Estimated to be carved in soft white marble 600-1100 years ago by the Algonkian speaking people, they predate European contact and are referred to as Kinomagewapkong or "The Rocks that Teach". In 1984 a building was constructed over the petroglyphs to protect them from weathering, frost shattering the carvings, and the growth of algae over the carvings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No photographs are allowed inside the building like a Mennonite carriage thus you'll have to go see it for yourselves.</td></tr>
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Petroglyphs Provincial Park is open from 10am to 5pm daily from the second Friday in May until Thanksgiving.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I think this carving is about an elder whose eye exploded because the children were being too loud while he was telling a story.</td></tr>
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Now that the lesson is over, Beverley and I went to PPP on the way home from Silent Lake Provincial Park and we spent around two hours exploring the grounds, petroglyphs, and Learning Place. There are four hikes at this 1643 hectare day-use park and if you did them all it would take you at most 6 hours. We didn't do any of them, but the only thing I would have wanted to see is McGinnis Lake a meromictic lake where the water at three different levels never mixes and in the bottom 12 metres of the lake it's 5-6 degrees Celsius and has zero oxygen. <br />
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Instead of hiking, we spent about an hour looking at the petroglyphs and then tracing a couple that we liked from casts provided.<br />
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After soaking it all in, we then went to the Learning Place where you can watch films and read more on the petroglyphs. The weird thing is no one knows exactly what the rocks are trying to teach, but it is still very interesting especially when you make up your own teaching stories to go along with the carvings. Taking everything into account this is a worthwhile spot to stop if you are camping at Silent Lake, Kawartha Highlands, Lake St. Peter, or anything on the east end of Algonquin because your entrance is free with your camping permit. Lastly because there are only 14 of these day-use provincial parks I have to create a new system for ranking, so here it goes:<br />
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Recommended Length of Stay:</b></b></b> One hour if you want to see the Petroglyphs, 6 hours if you want to do absolutely everything.<br />
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<b>Overall Impression:</b> This Provincial Park should be on your bucket list of things to see in Ontario <u>if</u> you are interested in cultural heritage.<br />
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<b>Rating out of 14:</b> Well so far it's #1. Since we haven't really seen any day-use PP I'd have to say this is the best one we've seen... out of one.<br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com1Petroglyphs Provincial Park, 2249 Northeys Bay Rd, Woodview, ON K0L 3E0, Canada44.625724899999987 -78.047947921.216496399999986 -119.3565419 68.034953399999992 -36.7393539tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-12252079055387226482015-07-25T09:44:00.000-04:002015-07-25T09:44:07.233-04:00And that my friends is the Long Point Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
(To be spoken in the voice of A. Whitney Brown SNL's The Big Picture-- You remember him right?)<br />
Hello, my friends, in the vast seascape of the never-ending, effervescent Long Point. Camping for me, my friends, is a time to commune with nature, get out of the city, and get back to something more pure; like the algae bloomed waters of lake Erie. Up until now, I have only camped with my wife for this Blog, not that there is anything wrong with that. However, I think, as most of you will agree, there is probably something wrong with that. For this reason in 2014, we went to <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/longpoint" target="_blank">Long Point Provincial Park</a> with a total stranger named Brent Fidler, his woman/wife/mother of his children -- Kate Poulin ("I love you"said like Brent), and their children Alison, and Michelle.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nice matching red shirts on the Fidler Boys.</td></tr>
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Now, I haven't been camping with my brother since…<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This time, matching short shorts. Oh the eighties.</td></tr>
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And I'll never forget the time we were playing hide and go seek at Cyprus Lake Provincial Park (now <a href="http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/on/bruce/index.aspx" target="_blank">Bruce Peninsula National Park</a>) and Brent hid so well we didn't find him for three hours and when we finally did at a ranger station, obviously the winner, he was crying and eating ice cream.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Brent Fidler. Foodie from a young age.</td></tr>
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But I digress. What no one would ever know, until now because I'm telling you, is that I sometimes travel on Friday in the morning when there is less of a parking lot surrounding Toronto and go set up our site then drive back to the closest GO station to get Beverley after she's done work. This is a marvellous way to do things, but it requires five things -- a lower than average ability in math, an affinity for spending money on gas, and Fridays off I guess. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOrgLj9lOwk" target="_blank">"Three sir!"-- Sir Galahad.</a> On the way I always try to do something as a treat for myself, and this time I stopped by <a href="http://www.ramblinroad.ca/" target="_blank">Ramblin' Road Brewery Farm</a>. Two of my favourite things in the world: farms and beer. Ramblin' Road is owned by the Picard's Peanuts family where you can stop by for a taste of their beer anytime you are in the neighbourhood from Monday to Saturday 10 am to 4pm. Most convenient hours ever.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's Tomaco in the back.</td></tr>
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The brewery is a great piece of Ontario ingenuity, and you'll especially think so after about four bottles of their beer. The fascinating one uses potato starch in their <a href="http://www.ramblinroad.ca/dakota-pearl-ale.php" target="_blank">Dakota Pearl Ale</a> and makes a beer that you don't have to have potato chips with, even though I know we did. Bet you can't drink just one! And I know you won't because you won't find it easily, at least for a couple more years when maybe they will get into the liquor store. When I finally arrived at Long Point I have to admit I was slightly disillusioned with our site.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hat guy in the back is at their fire. Why would any park line up the fire pits of two sites exactly so you are staring at each other all night? ... And it's not her beer.</td></tr>
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It's was like camping at a zoo. Not that there would be anything wrong with that. But as I'm sure most of the animals out there would agree, there is something definitely wrong with that. It was like living next door to a nudist colony where your curtain-less windows line up perfectly and no matter how hard you focus on not looking, you're always catching areola out of the corner of your eye. Luckily, for us our neighbours were not nudists and there was only one casualty. It seems the reason why everyone puts up with no privacy is because of the beach, which is the best one at a provincial park I have ever encountered.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It goes on forever. If 1.5km is forever to you.</td></tr>
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Created in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Communist_Party_of_China" target="_blank">great year for communism</a> and when the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1921_Stanley_Cup_Finals" target="_blank">Ottawa Senators beat the Vancouver Millionaires</a> for the Stanley Cup, oh the good ole days of 1921 when I can still remember wearing an onion on my belt, this is a beach of a Provincial Park and is recognized as a biosphere reserve by the United Nations for birds, turtles, snakes, and ticks with Lyme disease, from what I hear. So what else can you do at this park? Well you can bird watch, boat, fish, and hunt? (I'd love to get the details on the hunting) There are educational programs for the children, but other than accidentally bird watching, we did none of these things. I guess for me, because there was no hiking and I don't tan well, this was like watching a marathon of "<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0157246/" target="_blank">Will and Grace</a>" and listening to my wife tell me how much it relates to our lives.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Playing Euchre in the middle of the day is always so much fun for children.</td></tr>
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Now, camping with small children is great. It warms your heart, they say funny things, and if they are really small you can put them down for multiple naps. Heck they'll spend an hour watching bubbles.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Alison beached... out.</td></tr>
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And you just want to leave them there, which everyone out there would agree is wrong. Luckily for me, they aren't mine, and I can, after I take their picture. Now I love my brother's family and I have to admit if they were not there I wouldn't have enjoyed Long Point as much as I did, but our neighbours totally showed us up when it came to the Saturday dinner. I'll let the video do the talking;<br />
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It's called a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S39QDED4WGo" target="_blank">Peka</a> and it comes from Croatia; I'm sure all you back country campers were curious. It was wicked awesome until they shared some with us and it tasted better than our dinner. Not that there is anything wrong with that, but there damn well is! Let this be a warning. Don't anyone ever do that again. With that in mind there are some sites with enough privacy to put in a list. In Cottonwood Campground numbers 205, 208, 263, 277, and 279. In the ingeniously named New Campground numbers 309, 311, 330, 331, 332, 333, 335, 337, 354, 356, 360, 366, 403, 413, 415, 419, 428, 430, 434, 439, 441, 444, 445, 446, 447, and 448.<br />
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When everything was said and done and Brent's family was waving goodbye, I realized why I really like camping with other people so much. It combines all the best elements of having someone over for the weekend without having to plan entertainment, clean the house, worry about the amount of cocktails anyone is having except for yourself, the TV never goes on awkwardly, the neighbours never complain unjustifiably, and when all is said and done you ate well and created some pretty good memories some of which I may embellish, and that my friends is the long point. </div>
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<b><b>Site Cleanliness:</b> </b> Because the sites are all sand there was a top layer of bits and pieces and then the buried treasure bits and pieces. All in all, not bad though.</div>
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<b><span style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> The best. Every site in our campground was a stone's throw from the beach and the quality of the beach was </span></b>phenomenal.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Long Point, Norfolk, ON N0E, Canada42.5486844 -80.04945040000001217.0266499 -121.35804440000001 68.0707189 -38.740856400000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-78255945886569606472015-04-30T08:56:00.000-04:002015-07-09T14:53:15.002-04:00Marten River Provincial Park and the Case of a Great Park, Short Visit<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
(To be read in the manner of gumshoe <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkal2bNKZe4" target="_blank">Mike Hammer</a> or <a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1318950912/ch0008840" target="_blank">Sam Spade</a>)<br />
After a long ride, sometimes you just want to get home, put your feet up, and crack a cold one. And sometimes, just sometimes, you wish you had of taken another week off and bought a two-four on the road. That was the case with <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/martenriver" target="_blank">Marten River Provincial Park</a>. When looking into the place it seemed like it would only take a day to see everything, but we easily could gone three times on that merry-go-round.<br />
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When we arrived it was like any other park. A gatehouse. A prepubescent park attendant. And a site. In the game of craps the site turned out to be a 7 followed by another 7. It was like a near death experience walking down into the site going through the darkness to get to the light.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">What the tree's said was really off colour. Then there's what the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE" target="_blank">fox says</a>...</td></tr>
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After a shot of warm welcome, we headed straight to the beach to wash any car stink off of us.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Come on in the water is warm," Quoth the river.</td></tr>
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After washing off some mysterious stink, we jaunted and jostled down to the jewel of this park -- the 19th century logging camp. We arrived to locked doors, crazy wheels (which is actually a braking system for a logging wagon), and a grouchy grouse.<br />
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The next day started with a jolt and a cup of coffee gave me a second one. (Using the word jolt, I wondered who remembers Jolt cola. Oh the memories.) With that burst of confluence, we were ready for a ramble. Marten River is funny like a clown for this one, as it says it has three hikes, but really it's just one of various distances.<br />
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Shut up Bird. We, of course being that sort of people, did the long one. It was a good hour and a half hike (for us an hour) through the boreal forest to a huge marsh.<br />
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The nicest spots to lay your hat at Marten River are numerous, but heck here they are: In Chicot Campground numbers 2, 5, 6, 33 (the best), 35, 41, 43, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63a, 74, 77, 81, 82, 83, 95, 97, 106, 108, 112, and 114. And in Assinika Campground numbers 116, 117, 126, 128, 135a, 137a, 152, 153, 161, 164, 165, 172, 173, 179a, 198, and 199. Just to give you the low down on this place it would be best to come during Lumberjack Days which is the second weekend of July from what I can tell. You can get a lumberjack bean dinner then watch feats of strength and listen to musical entertainment neither of which have to do with the bean dinner.<br />
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<b><b>Site Cleanliness:</b> </b>Fair to Marten River. There were a few bits and bobs of garbage, but nothing serious. The site was beautiful like a dame without a dress on so you can forgive a little bit of dirt on her knees.</div>
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<b><b>Privacy:</b> </b>Unbelievable. The only part that could even be considered not private was the opening to the river and like a window to the south you wouldn't want to shudder it.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Lastly just in case you wondered what a <a href="http://www.hww.ca/en/wildlife/mammals/marten.html" target="_blank">Marten</a> is or looks like here is a picture. If you want more information on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx0gXM_FkgE" target="_blank">Marten</a> just click on the word <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_marten" target="_blank">Marten</a>.</span><br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Marten River Provincial Park, Marten River, ON P0H 1T0, Canada46.7236223 -79.814357146.7018518 -79.8546976 46.745392800000005 -79.7740166tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-90258319893045356632015-04-17T11:43:00.002-04:002015-04-17T11:51:47.641-04:00Previously on Blogging with Robert Fidler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
When we last left our heroes they were being chased by a crazed Samurai, every second weekend through the provincial parks of Ontario.<br />
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Our heroes had just learned some hard truths about their ten year experiment to see every Ontario provincial park.<br />
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Eight (parks) times ten (years) is only eighty, not 103, no matter what calculator you use (even the ever optimistic Fidler calculator).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I thought I'd look like this forever. Damn Fidler Caculator.</td></tr>
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So after four years of adventures, and our defeat of the two headed turtle,<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I'll get you Rob and Bev!</td></tr>
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We have decided to add four more years to our time limit (just like a two term president) thus attempting to see every provincial park in Ontario in merely 14 years.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Then I'll be King of the Ontario provincial parks!</td></tr>
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Beverley and I will also be applying for the <a href="https://www.woodsdreamjob.com/" target="_blank">Woods™Dream Job</a> to travel the entire summer hiking, canoeing and camping on the <a href="http://tctrail.ca/" target="_blank">Trans Canada Trail</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYpnULjWAuM" target="_blank">We will see this again, hopefully in better weather.</a></td></tr>
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Wish us luck. Or even better contact Woods™ and tell them why you think we would do the best job at <a href="mailto:contactus@woodsdreamjob.com">contactus@woodsdreamjob.com</a>. This is a new year and I will endeavour to entertain, inform, and have a unmitigated blast doing it. So let the Blog begin…<br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0549 Broadview Avenue, Toronto, ON M4K 2N7, Canada43.6715623 -79.35463979999997343.6715173 -79.354718799999972 43.6716073 -79.354560799999973tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-29874094830427184732014-11-06T13:53:00.000-05:002014-11-06T13:53:12.412-05:00Rene Brunelle Provincial Park : I'm on the Top of Ontario Ma!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<i><i><u><b>The Ballad of Rene Brunelle</b></u></i> (If you can't guess the song ask someone who is over 40)</i></div>
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<i>Come and listen to a story about a man named Rene (Joseph Napoleon) Brunelle,</i></div>
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<i>A jack of all trades (teacher, tourism operator, politician, etc.) he treated everybody well.</i></div>
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<i>Then one day he decided to pack it in.</i></div>
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<i>And way up north they decided to honour him. (With a Provincial park that is.)</i></div>
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<i>Well, first thing's first, old Rene was always fair,</i></div>
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<i>But his wife must of said we cannot live near there.</i></div>
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<i>So they moved to Magog, Que. and promised to be back soon,</i></div>
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<i>Kapuskasing didn't care cause they were over the moon.</i></div>
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<i>(Beam that is, UFO spotting site, Where the Provincial Park is.)</i></div>
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Come on I'll show you around Rene Brunelle Provincial Park. This is the south day use beach.</div>
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If you didn't guess already, <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/renebrunelle" target="_blank">Rene Brunelle Provincial Park</a> was named after someone. Rene Brunelle was an Ontario politician for Cochrane North from 1958 to 1981 and after doing a <u>little</u> research on him, he was a bit of a conundrum. First, he wanted to allow forestry in some of the largest provincial parks, particularly Quetico, and yet the province still named a provincial park after him? He came from a family in the pulp and paper business, but later in life ran a tourism company, which, I have to assume, was not deforestation tourism... "On the right you will see where we have chopped down 100 acres of boreal forest to make toilet paper and Kleenex. Does anyone need a tissue?" Then, in the end, after serving Ontario for 23 years, he moved to Magog, Quebec; 120 kilometres east of Montreal and 40 kilometres from the Vermont Border. I guess he got tired of the north? ...or was it the bugs?</div>
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A little hard to see but every unidentified speck in this picture is a dragon fly. There must have been thousands. Again in the day-use area.</div>
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Rene Brunelle Provincial Park is located 30 minutes east of Kapuskasing right above the town of <a href="http://www.moonbeam.ca/" target="_blank">Moonbeam</a> off the northern trans-Canada highway #11. If you don't know where that is phone your high school geography teacher and ask him or her, when they don't know -- ask google. It truly is the top of Ontario, unless you use a plane.</div>
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Rene Brunelle PP was about to be shut down in 2012 due to low visitation, but the people of the area protested so now the park is open and Moonbeam is on the hook for any shortfalls. When we arrived at Rene Brunelle we were only staying one night because I figured they only had two trails and I could see everything I wanted in a day and a half. Well... I was right on the park's two trails:</div>
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<b>Vigilance Trail</b> (1.5 km) was a not so leisurely stroll (due to the mosquitoes) around a point on Remi Lake with information signs about the history of bush pilots in the area. It was beautiful and interesting, but not enough to make us forget about the mosquitoes. It should take about a half hour (we did it in 10 minutes).</div>
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Gene Roddenberry might have something to say about this? Trail begins and ends at the day use area.</div>
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<b>Spruce Lowland Trail</b> (1.6 km) was better when it came to flying pests and was an easy half hour hike with the points of interests being trees, flora, fauna, and an empty bear's den.</div>
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What we didn't know is that right outside the front gate you are connected to 40 plus kilometres of trails for hiking, biking, rollerblading, or in the winter cross-country skiing. Total amount of Moonbeam Trails hiked -- zero.</div>
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Remi Lake, the lake Rene Brunelle PP is on, is well known in the area for swimming, fishing, boating of all kinds, and hunting. Which brings me to my bird picture.</div>
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Rene Brunelle would be a great park to visit if you wanted to do some fishing and didn't worry if you don't own a boat because the provincial park rents them. Now, you may have noticed a theme running throughout this about whether we were at the <u>Day Use Area</u> or not, that's because if I was staying at this park I would probably never leave the day use area. It has washrooms, a place to cook, two great beaches, a volleyball court, a park for children, wild life, and a covered eating area. It's like this park put more time, money, and thought into their day use then their camp sites. For example, the Camper's Beach looks like this:</div>
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Our site was nice, don't get me wrong, but for how far north this campground is I would have hoped for more privacy. It's not like this provincial park doesn't have the land or waterfront property. This is the first time (definitely not the last) where the site we stayed at is not on the list of good sites. <br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I could accept this if the campsite was right on the water, but it isn't. The good sites at Rene Brunelle are numbers 9, 33, 34, 39, 41, 49, 54, 56, 57, 82-85, the best one being number 88. None of these are near the beach, but some have views of the lake which is the next best thing. In summation, Bev and I had a great time at this park, however most of our fun was had at the day use area where we hiked, swam, relaxed, and saw some amazing wildlife.</span></td></tr>
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<i>Well now it's time to say goodbye to Rene and all the merrymaking,</i><br />
<i>I'd like to thank you folks for kindly dropping in.</i><br />
<i>I highly recommend this park's locality,</i><br />
<i>If only it wasn't ten hours away.</i><br />
<i>(By car that is, straight time with no breaks, and that's from Toronto -- you figure it out from where you're from and unless that's Moonbeam or Kapuskasing it's far.)</i><br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> </b>Better than expected. I was saddened to find out there was so much hiking that we didn't get to enjoy. As well, there are ample boating and fishing opportunities for people who have a little more time.<br />
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> Beach quality was quite good, but as for ease to getting to the beaches they were quite a distance from any of the campsites. As far as ease of getting to the water, every site by the water has a path to it which is great for canoeists, but not great for swimming.</b></b></div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Rene Brunelle Provincial Park, Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part, ON P0L, Canada49.4546556 -82.137532449.2894051 -82.460255899999993 49.6199061 -81.8148089tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-7597075449981410032014-07-25T10:56:00.000-04:002014-07-25T10:56:05.606-04:00White Lake Provincial Park Revealed -- From the Semiwite to the Fully WhiteTo begin I would like to talk about our friend Google maps. I use google maps every time we go camping so I really do appreciate the service, however if you ever drag the cursor and change your course so that the roads you are travelling on have no names; be prepared, Google maps can seriously screw you around. North of <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2014/07/m-i-ss-i-ss-g-i-paradise-amidst-swarm.html" target="_blank">Mississagi Provincial Park</a> first there was a logging road... no problem, we have taken the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Industrial_Road" target="_blank">Sultan's Road</a> out of <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/08/the-weird-and-wonderful-world-of-wakami.html" target="_blank">Wakami Provincial Park</a> and that one is crazy. (We had to dodge rocks so big they'd take out you're carburetor and you'd be lucky if a logging truck wasn't barrelling down on at 110km/hr.) Thank heavens we didn't encounter any logging trucks or really big rocks on the 'No Named' logging road. What we did encounter was a turtle in the middle of the road. Bev really just wanted to help it get across the road. Me I'm a little more cautious and really just wanted to stop playing in the middle of a logging road. You know like your mom use to tell you.<br />
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Then we took a right onto what I have come to understand is a snowmobiling trail -- an OFSC Prescribed Trail? I'd never heard of them before. I don't know about you, but I haven't been on a dirt road in a long time and I've never been on a dirt road in a Nissan Versa. I have to admit I was kind of having fun; a scared fun, but fun. Beverley astutely pointed out that we had no business being on a dirt road, but there comes a point of no return where you either cross your fingers and keep going forward or you just keep talking about how you should have turned around. And we did both. Other than it taking a little bit longer and some rattled nerves and teeth we came out the other side without incident. And now without further ado here is my first attempt at a video in this Blog.<br />
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We arrived at <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/whitelake" target="_blank">White Lake Provincial Park</a> and the staff said the bugs were bad, so we got prepared. It seems the staff at White Lake either doesn't know what bad is or at least have never been to Mississagi to experience true bug badness. Due to a bridge closure on the Trans-Canada Highway we had to rush this provincial park and to give you a sense of what that's like... here we go. We set up in half an hour at site 84.<br />
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Most sites along the water have a designated path to the beach/fishing/pick-up boat area.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> I don't know about the whole beach but there were leaches a few feet in so for us = no swimming.</td></tr>
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With swimming out we decided to hike the <b>Deer Lake Trail </b>(1.5 or 2.5 km). This trail was an easy hour long hike through the forest around Deer Lake and an adjacent beaver dam. There was an abundance of wild life around but it was near impossible to take a good photo of anything. This is where I acquired my first true taste of bird photography and how amazingly stupid/difficult it is. I must have taken 10 blurry pictures of in front of and behind birds before getting an only slightly blurry picture like this.<br />
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Then this in focus one.<br />
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And my favourite is this one of baby Ruffed Grouse. See if you can spot <u>them</u> in the original photograph.<br />
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And now the Close-up.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The easy one is on the branch. Then the 2 down and to the left behind the Bunchberry plants. And the last one is on the white moss to the left of the 2. </td></tr>
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How did you do? Having finished being frustrated for the day and with dusk on it's way, Bev and I visited a logging water sleigh display, then ate, showered, and went to bed so we would be ready for a whirlwind day on Wednesday. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev giving her <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Do-the-%22Blue-Steel%22-Pose-from-Zoolander" target="_blank">Blue Steel</a> pose with the Water Sleigh.</td></tr>
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While we're sleeping let me tell you a little about the park. White Lake is known for it's fishing of Walleye (Pickerel), Northern Pike, Whitefish, and Perch. A family camping near us comes every year to fish and on their first night they only caught "about 25 fish" and "put most of them back" because they were staying for a week. As well, if you are a fish snob there is Clearwater lake which can only be hiked to and is stocked with Speckled Trout (no live bait can be used). White Lake is also an excellent start off point for a canoeing trip as the <a href="http://www.myccr.com/canoedb/routeDetails.php?routeid=243" target="_blank">White River Canoe Route</a> is ranked in Ontario's top ten routes. White Lake Provincial Park is 6085 hectares, which is 60 km squared, and was created in 1963 as a Natural Environment Park.<br />
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<b>The Best Sites</b> are # 6, 8, 12, 13, 57, 61, 63, 69, 73, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 89, 90, 92, 97, 101, 156, 159, 161, 164, 165, 169. The cream of the crop are 6, 8, 12, 13, 80, 81, 84, 85, 86, 159, 161, 164, 165 because of how close they are to the water.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">View of the lake from site #84. And the fire pit is pointing the right way.</td></tr>
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Bev and I awoke Wednesday morning to the news that they had closed the Trans-Canada Highway (What???) due to a bridge problem in Nipigon meaning we would have to take a detour to the northern highway adding 2-3 hours onto our trip into Thunder Bay. So we had a choice either spend another night and hope the bridge was fixed by the next day or try to fit in as much fun in the morning and head out. We chose the latter and luckily we did because the bridge was closed for 3 days. So here is what I call <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ov5fvCHmxo" target="_blank">The Party</a> </i>part 2. We packed up our site then went to the <b>Exercise Trail</b> (0.5 km) 45 minutes is what is suggested but it really all depends how good shape you are in and what level you wanted to accomplish. I have created a slide show out of our photo's of this hike to give you a sense of it.<br />
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After a great morning warm-up we hiked the <b>Tiny Bog Trail</b> (4.5 km) about 1 hour and a half. This trail was at one time about viewing spots, but I think nature has taken them back. Here is viewing spot number one.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Score one for the trees and zero for the views.</td></tr>
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The second viewing spot was even funnier as the Dragon Flies had claimed it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hence the reason White Lake has fewer bugs.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Find your own place to sit! Can't you see we are sunbathing. Martha cover yourself."</td></tr>
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This hike was actually a great deal of fun and more moderate than easy. White Lake Provincial Park is an amazing park that has things to do for everyone. I really do want to come back to fish, but I think we would have to rent a motor boat to get the full experience.<br />
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> As with all the northern parks I was very impressed, I just wish we caught a fish. </b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 103: </b>Because of a slight difference in beauty and leeches I am placing White Lake Provincial Park at number 30 and moving Chutes back to 29. White lake is just going to have to accept that it's a little bit older, but looking good for it's age whereas Chutes can keep lying to itself. 29 for ever baby!</div>
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<br />Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0White Lake Provincial Park, Mobert, ON P0M 2J0, Canada48.703032099999987 -85.66428539999998348.619187099999991 -85.825646899999981 48.786877099999984 -85.502923899999985tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-56060081103419418722014-07-17T15:18:00.000-04:002015-07-09T14:39:54.674-04:00Mississagi Provincial Park : Paradise Amidst the Swarm (or Every Martin Short Film I saw as a Kid)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I know some people don't like camping because of bugs and I always think, "Suck it up butter-cup. If they are bothering you just start a fire or wear bug repellent." That was before. This is now. Bev and I are still swatting at ghost bugs on our bodies a month after leaving <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/mississagi" target="_blank">Mississagi Provincial Park</a>. If you didn't know any better you'd think we had nervous ticks -- and not the sort of ticks you keep until you can show the MNR. Seriously there was no fire big enough and not enough bug spray in the world to avoid getting bit at Mississagi (until they create a 100% Deet cream or spray that doesn't melt flesh). <br />
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Only now do I realize I have never talked about the non-human pests you can encounter while camping. Personally I always carry a flyswatter just like Grandfather Elwin did, but that <u>was</u> just for house flies. Here at Mississagi Provincial park I carried it constantly and used it while doing everything -- hiking, swimming, and even for fanning the fire. Suffice to say I need a new flyswatter as mine is now broken. For most people the worst pest while camping is the Mosquito:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Seriously if I was taking this picture the mosquito wouldn't live. But I would never take this picture.<br />
I can hear the photographer now, "Honey a mosquito is biting me, what are you waiting for, get the camera."</td></tr>
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The first morning in Mississagi we awoke to five hundred of these little beggars on the mesh of our tent in the first of three Mexican stand-offs. They were licking their own proboscises waiting for us to come outside. It was like I was El Guapo and Bev was Hefe and the plethora of mosquitoes were the <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mTUmczVdik" target="_blank">Three Amigos</a></i> and the rest of the townsfolk surrounding us. When my ears woke up the hum was so loud I thought we were under the hydro wires, but then I remembered Mississagi doesn't have hydro -- they're off the grid and all I could think is that no matter where the bug repellent was, because it was not in the tent, it was too far away. Female mosquitoes are the ones that use a vampiric proboscis to suck your life blood, while the males are out drinking nectar and other sugary liquids. Hmmmm. The best bug repellent we have found is called Watkins. It's a cream that goes on smooth, seems pleasant on the skin and works for four or more hours.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">You can buy it at MEC or the Trading Posts and it's distributed out of Winnipeg a place that knows about bugs.</td></tr>
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Early in the season (May to early July) mosquitoes are not the only problem, you also have to look out for black flies too. Wait are there green, blue, and purple flies? Because all the flies I know are black and yet this is the only one called black fly. But I digress, my mother, Margaret, will be the first to tell you black flies germinate wild blueberries and that's a good thing, but that's the males of the species working all day on that, where as the females feed on flesh and blood. Right. In my experience, if you wait until after a week of plus 20 degrees or about mid-June all the black flies are gone.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo" target="_blank">"I'll die with the black fly picking my bones in North Ontario I-O, in North Ontario." Wade Hemsworth</a><br />
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Now much to our dismay, Mississagi had not gotten a week of plus 20 and therefore these little beggars were still around. The worst part of these bites is the female flies take a chunk of your skin with them, but on the plus side -- no West Nile Virus just a beautiful welt. If you've not seen the NFB video for <i>The Black Fly Song</i> please, please I demand you to check it out. It's part of the 1970's animation boom Canada was known for and therefore a part of our heritage. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjLBXb1kgMo</a> The only reason why I know about it is because they'd show it in between Hammy the Hamster and Rocket Robin Hood when I was a kid. Again check it out. It's as easy as hitting the link above. Lastly there are deer and horse flies.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There is nothing really dear about these flies and again what is with people photographing these flies.</td></tr>
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Part of the same family these flies use their mandibles and cut a razor sharp X into your skin then lap up your blood using an anti-coagulant in their saliva. A key to the wild deer fly or horse fly is that they commonly go after your hair as they are use to biting animals so if you have a light coloured hat on they will pester you less. I can't say any deer or horse flies actually got me at Mississagi, but I killed over 20 that were caught in my hair or in the eating tent. Again the males of the species collect nectar and the females need the blood to have babies. To sum up when it comes to the flying pests: While the men are working or getting drunk on sugary liquids and nectar's the women are sucking the life out of you so they can take care of the kids, but you can't have one without the other. It's something almost like a lesson there... or a mirror in nature... I'm not quite sure. Maybe someone can point me in the right direction. Ah there it is.<br />
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NOW ONTO THE PROVINCIAL PARK...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Flyswatter at the ready. While I took this picture I was bitten over 30 times.</td></tr>
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Here is a little recent history of Mississagi Provincial Park which was created as a natural environment class park in 1965 and is 4900 hectares or 49 square kilometres in size. A funny thing about this park is that they boast about it being quiet and not having many visitors. <a href="http://www.tourismelliotlake.com/en/explore/mississagipark.asp" target="_blank">"</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.tourismelliotlake.com/en/explore/mississagipark.asp" target="_blank">Mississagi Provincial Park sees as many campers over the course of a year as Algonquin receives in just one long weekend."</a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">or</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"> <a href="http://www.tourismelliotlake.com/en/explore/mississagipark.asp" target="_blank">"</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.tourismelliotlake.com/en/explore/mississagipark.asp" target="_blank">At Mississagi, there's no need to reserve a campsite. You can just show up whenever you feel like it." </a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Seems like the reverse advertising team was on this job. Like you're supposed to say, "Well if no one is going there, it's the place for me." Hence in 2012 the Ontario Provincial Park system announced they were closing the gates on Mississagi because of low visitation rates. Because of this, the city of Elliot Lake, outraged as a retirement community can be, stepped in because old people with boats love to fish and if they closed the gates they would close off Semiwite Lake, and Flack Lake to the public (you could walk in but motor boats would be out). So now Elliot Lake and the Ontario Provincial Parks are working together to keep the park open, but Elliot Lake has to pay for any operating shortfalls. You'd never know any of this by going to Mississagi, with the only differences between this park and others being a glossy park guide (Bev was very upset) and the park store wasn't quite set up when we arrived June 2014 (No ice -- you have to go into town; 25 minutes there and 25 minutes back. If no one is coming why would they need ice?).</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our Site #1. Not much shade and the fire pit is backwards, but otherwise I think it's perfect.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site #1. Not all walk-in sites are made equally as Bev makes the 10 foot stroll in from our car.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">And then every other site is a pull-through site for RV's or vehicles with boats. That being said there were a number of great sites at this park. In my opinion 1-4 are the best and the only issue with them is there is a path along the front of all of the sites, but I don't think any reasonable person would use it unless they knew the people on the next site or they were being chased by a black fly covered bear. If you did camp at one of these sites you could easily block off the path with a tent.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As far as the pull-through sites go #5-7, 9, 11-16, 19-24, and 26 are all great sites. If you want to be close to a beach then </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">#1, 4, 9, or</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;"> 11-14 have ten foot walks to one of the two public beaches. You may look at a map and say there isn't a beach close to #1 but if you refer to my first picture of the site you can walk off site #1 into the water. It is a little mucky, a little weedy and you have to watch out for the vicious tadpoles, but if you are looking to cool off or get away from the bugs it is perfect. (Bev did it.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bullfrog tadpoles visited everyday-- those pests. The middle one we named <a href="http://www.videodetective.com/movies/clifford/5124" target="_blank">Clifford</a> and the one with the eye patch is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXTwndarYcA" target="_blank">Captain Ron</a>.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 20px;">Planning to go to this park I knew there was an enormous amount of hiking (60 km of it) you could literally hike for seven days and we did get four of the seven trails in during our three days there. On the first day we hiked the <b>Semiwite Creek Trail</b> (1.2 km) a lovely trail from the gatehouse right to our site (where we applied more bug repellent) and then back to the gatehouse (wish we had known this when we started then we wouldn't have driven). This trail looked at the old logging run from Semiwite Lake to Chris*man Lake. If it wasn't for the black flies and mosquitoes, this would have been fun -- not <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaalgYGi3iQ" target="_blank">Pure Luck</a></i> fun, but fun all the same. It says to allow 30 minutes for the trail but I would suggest that it takes more like 45 minutes to an hour with a lot of slapping in between. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A 50 year old logging chute.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Erratic Boulder: a boulder that differs from the surrounding rock. I've never seen two the same.</td></tr>
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I don't know about you, but I've gotten into this weird habit of when I'm startled (you can say scared, but I won't) I let out a loud half giggle, half laugh until I know what I just about stepped on. About twenty metres from the view above this happened and then I got this...<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A Ruffed Grouse getting Ruffed. And my second bird for the blog!</td></tr>
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Ruffed Grouse were abundant during our trip to Thunder Bay this time and I have to assume it has to do with the time of year, because every time we saw them they had a brood of Cheepers with them. My understanding is that a lot of Cheepers don't make it to adulthood that's why Ruffed Grouse lay Cheepers by the dozen. After that excitement and about three quarters of the length of the trail you come upon a back-country campsite that has the nicest beach in the whole park. Too bad it is a 30 minute hike from the closest campsite.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Now, Bev try to give me the most fake smile you can muster. Perfect!</td></tr>
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Helenbar Trail says to allow 4 hours, but Bev and I did it in 2 hours with a couple breaks. At one point you follow the portage between Semiwite and Helenbar lakes and if you choose to go left and visit Helenbar Lake there is part of a Gloster Meteor plane that Lt William 'Hugh' McKenzie crashed there in 1946. We didn't know until after, which is always the way, so we didn't go to see it.</div>
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Part of the HelenBar Lookout Trail follows <b>Semiwhite Lake Trail</b> (12 km) which is a difficult trail that travels around Semiwite Lake. The reason why this is a difficult trail is because you are hiking on rocks and roots for most of the hike, so it is a great work out for your ankles as you slip and slide over these modernly ancient obstacles. We only did parts of this trail so I cannot comment on it fully, but by our calculations it says to allow 6 hours for this hike and we figure you could do it in 4 and a bit.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pink Lady's Slipper and Bunchberry plants were everywhere on the Semiwite Lake Trail. </td></tr>
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Lastly we did the <b>Flack Lake Nature Trail</b> (0.8 km) which is an easy trail with a couple of picnic spots and really only one point of interest which is the "ripple rock" right beside another old logging chute. On the "ripple rock" where an ancient ocean once was there are fossils that can be found, but we looked and didn't find anything really cool. This "ripple rock" should not be confused with the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ripple_Rock" target="_blank">underwater mountain that use to be in Seymour Narrows off the coast of British Columbia</a>.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The not exploded "Ripple Rock" with picnic area, logging chute, and hard to find fossils.</td></tr>
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<b>The McKenzie Trail</b> (22 km) they say allow 2+ days for this hike and it sounds like a doozie. Named after the Pilot that crashed into Helenbar Lake. This hike we didn't plan for, as one would have to carry everything needed to camp for the night.<br />
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<b>Jimchrist Trail</b> (11km) the blasphemous trail goes by Chr**tman Lake and then to Helenbar Lake. Since we already saw Helenbar Lake and could check out C**istman Lake from the campground and the highway we decided to skip this trail. If we had more time we definitely would have done it just to say "Jim Christ-man that was a good trail."<br />
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<b>Cobre Lake Trail </b>(11km) is a funny one and not just because of the way they spell Cobra, but because it's not even part of Mississagi Provincial Park. It is 11 km north of the park just off the highway and seems to have more to do with mining than hiking. There are stops along the way at copper exploration sites, an old diamond drill camp, and a chalcopyrite mine. This one would have to be a day trip and therefore we chose not to do it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dragon Fly making a nest of my boot means no hiking until he's ready to feast on mosquitoes. We were like <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrg1Cnkh5pc" target="_blank">Three Fugitives</a> </i>waiting for it to grow up. Which like the movie only takes about an hour and a half from this...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And finally to this.</td></tr>
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All in all Mississagi was a great way to start our long camping trip for 2014. Great hikes, some fishing -- nothing worth keeping, but we caught something every time we cast into Flack Lake, and some great memories with Bev and a red fox that visited every night -- not the comedian. The only down side to this trip was the bug bites, but my boot buddy will hopefully turn the tide.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>This is the tough one. I would honestly say that 7 days would be a great length of time to stay at this park. Two days of fishing from a canoe and four days of hiking and swimming with a day to relax. You could stay a lot longer if you were canoeing, but 7 days of camping and using a single site at the park is about right.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> I really loved this park because of all the things it had to offer, but the insects were a giant pain on our skin. I really wonder wether it was the time of year or the year itself, but make no mistake - come prepared for the bugs.</b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 103: </b>I'm probably being generous but I'm going with 40 because this park is unquestionably in the back forty of Ontario. A hidden gem that I hope we don't lose due to low visitation even though that looks like what they and the bugs are advertising.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Mississagi Provincial Park, Algoma, Unorganized, North Part, ON P0R, Canada46.6011452 -82.68292946.426592199999995 -83.0056525 46.7756982 -82.3602055tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-62316642222158949942014-05-29T09:22:00.001-04:002014-07-21T08:53:47.265-04:00Silent Lake Provincial Park -- This is Not the Sound of SilenceHello camping my old friend,<br />
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We've come back for more fun again.<br />
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Cause the cold last year was not a big enough warning.<br />
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We got frost bite while we were sleeping.<br />
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But the quest that was planted in my brain, still remains. Starting at a lake of silence.<br />
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Welcome to <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/silentlake" target="_blank">Silent Lake Provincial Park</a> <b>May 17th</b> 2014 and Bev's and my first camping trip this year. This was also the first time I have went camping on May two-four weekend since I was a child camping with my parents, and I'm not even sure I did it then as I don't think we ever went this early in the year. <u>Question:</u> Is it just me or when you call a weekend <a href="http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/canada/victoria-day" target="_blank">May two-four</a> don't you expect it to come on or near May 24th. <u>Answer:</u> No, every seven or so years it's seven days early and next year it's a day earlier. <u>2nd Question:</u> How is it that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Victoria" target="_blank">Queen Victoria</a> has a magical birthday that can move around so it's always on a weekend? Don't you wish you had that power? Because of the nebulous holiday, Silent Lake was closed right until May 17th because it was covered in snow and most of the sites near us were puddles, luckily for us it was gone on our site by the time we got there (Otherwise I would have had to question the outfit above -- probably by just adding rubber underwear).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our walk-in site right next to the beach, along a hiking trail and wide open to the world. </td></tr>
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This year I thought I'd be smarter (not much luck yet), and instead of leaving for camping on Fridays at 4pm from Toronto, I thought Bev could use our transit system to my advantage and take the 'GO' to Peterborough while I travel out ahead of time and set everything up. Kind of a pain for both of us, but I would much rather do this than be in traffic for countless hours. I guess setting up in the dark is on my Murtough list. When I arrived at Silent lake around 11am, I was the only one there (and ran around naked for hours) and I have to admit it was silent. Even at 4:30 in the afternoon when I left to pick up Bev, it was still silent. However, when we returned at 6pm it wasn't silent lake any more; it was party lake provincial park and I REALLY NEED TO ACCEPT THAT IS WHAT LONG WEEKENDS ARE FOR. Note to self : if you want a quieter experience camping skip long weekends and go on a regular weekend like May 24th.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Whether 17th or 24th we were still too late to pick the Fiddleheads beside our site. It's O.K. we brought our own and <br />
we laughed and sung to these fiddlehead about how we boiled and ate their brethren.</td></tr>
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With Bev there, we had dinner a little fire and went to bed. <i>Night 1 : Temperature low -3C vs. Layers of clothing for Beverley 2.</i> Suffice it to say Bev didn't sleep very well on the first night and at one point I found her on my back, vampiring my body heat for her own, with only about an inch of air mattress left for my comfort. Skip forward to the next morning, we decided to hike the <b>Lakeshore Hiking Trail</b> (15km). Likely the longest hike we have ever done, the trail follows the shoreline of Silent lake, Second Silent lake and goes by Quiet lake and Lost lake (found it). This was probably the best hike I have done at a Provincial Park -- it was challenging, beautiful, well-marked, and unbeknownst to us... closed until further notice. I guess I can say it should have been beknownst because a lot of the trail looked like this stream above, there were fallen trees across the trail, and if you got too far off you might never find the next trail marker.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev at hour four of our hike. </td></tr>
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Something that was funny if you ever hike this trail, there are steep incline signs when it was a gentle slope and nothing when you were climbing up or down a three storey hill. It became a game for us to find the signs that were completely unnecessary. Like this one;<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">As you can tell nothing to worry about here or behind us, but at other places it is like climbing a mountain.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like this! Grosse Morne National Park Newfoundland.</td></tr>
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<i>Night 2 : Temperature -2C vs. Beverley's layers 5. </i>Sleep no better. The next day we hiked <b>Bonnie's Pond Trail</b> (3km) named after a horse that perished while dragging logs across it in the 1800's. This was a nice leisurely hike in comparison to the Lakeshore hike. It goes through boggy areas and mixed woods forests and of course by Bonnie's Pond. This is a decent hike, but really if you are doing the Lakeshore Hike you should do this one first or it may seem anticlimactic.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bonnie's Pond a great place to hear silence.</td></tr>
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The last trail is the <b>Lakehead Loop Trail</b> (1.5km) and half of the loop is part of the Lakeshore Hiking Trail, so we decided half was enough, it's not <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075500/" target="_blank">eight</a> but it's like four and better than zero. This trail is an easy trail, good for families, and it gives one an understanding of the landscape around Silent Lake which is mainly Canadian shield. As a side note, the hiking trail maps that are normally printed in the provincial park guide are, in this case, sold for a twoonie at the park office -- cool little guide, but still <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1j8TcRoZpo" target="_blank">nickel's and dimes</a> wrong.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">About as wrong as this. But look what I found...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The <a href="http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/blue-headed_vireo/sounds" target="_blank">Blue Headed Vireo</a>. The first bird in my blog. These birds are so tame you can supposedly pet them.</td></tr>
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Silent Lake Provincial Park was opened in 1975 as a Natural Environment park about 20 minutes south of Bancroft or an hour north of Peterborough on highway 28. It is a natural environment where people can explore by hiking, swimming, canoeing (didn't hear of a single person who caught a fish), mountain biking, or, in the winter, cross-country skiing. It's only about 2 and a half hours outside of Toronto and it's open year round. From talking with people who work at the park it sounds like fall is the time to visit. They say the forest is more beautiful, the water is warm enough to swim in, there are more birds and other wildlife, and though they never said it, there would be wild mushrooms.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The only mushrooms we found were Morels just the wrong kind; False Morels -- deadly poisonous.</td></tr>
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The sites at Silent Lake were built in the 70's and some sites are in hardwood bush (no privacy) and some in pine bush (should be privacy). None of the sites except for ours and number 66 have a view of the beach, so don't hope for that either. With this in mind the best sites are; in Granite Ridge Campground #94, 110, 134, and 137, in Pincer Bay Campground #30, 44 (a yurt), 45-46 (a group site), 47, 55-56 (another group site), and 57, and in the Walk-In Campsites #66, 73, 74, 80, 82, 83, 84, and 86. You may have noticed I didn't put our site on the list because during our first day we noticed our site had a path through it open to everyone and that made it not very private at all. Silent Lake to me is a conundrum, it is far enough north and large enough (3500 acres) that the sites should be large and private, but as you can tell out of 167 sites there are only 20 really good ones and none of them are right on the water. This is a great provincial park for hiking, winter skiing and mountain biking, good for canoeing, and just O.K. for everything else. <i>Night 3: Temperature -1 vs. Beverley's Layers 2</i> and she slept fine -- another conundrum.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> </b> Excellent. There was enough to do for easily five days even though they do not have programs put on by the park.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> Beach quality was good (although it was way too cold for a dip), but most people would have quite a hike or even a drive to get to the beach. One great thing is they have a raft at both beaches where you could swim to and dive off of. It would have been great fun.</b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b> Five days -- I'm not a big fan of this park, but you could still fill five days. It takes a whole day to do the 15km hike. One day to recover. One day for a canoe and maybe a fish. One day to do the small hikes and the beach and one day for put up and take down. </div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> I enjoyed my time at Silent Lake, but also it was the first camping trip of the years so it could have been utterly awful and I would have still loved it.</b></b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 103: </b>#51.5 I figure this is the benchmark middle of the parks we have visited so far. Activities were great, the beaches looked nice, but privacy and access to the beaches have to put this park smack dab in the middle.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com1Silent Lake Provincial Park44.91813929958515 -78.0688476562544.557358799585153 -78.71429465625 45.278919799585147 -77.42340065625tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-7967411193860222382014-05-22T23:34:00.001-04:002014-05-22T23:35:49.724-04:00Prelude to this Season of BloggingI feel like I have a lot to explain, and not just about the picture below -- so last year I found out the province <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/7-provincial-parks-closed-due-to-ontario-mnr-budget-cuts-1.1360915" target="_blank">closed down 7 provincial parks</a>.<br />
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I don't know how long they were closed for (because we are going to one of them on June 21st), but the province was looking for help from neighbouring communities to keep the parks running. It seems, after a little research, that Caliper Lake PP, Mississagi PP, and Tidewater PP have reopened in partnerships with the MNR and the closest towns. however, say goodbye to Greenwater, Obatanga, Springwater, and The Shoals. I've found out you can still enter these parks free of charge but they are not being maintained and parking is very limited since the front gates are closed and locked. Therefore my Blog is now about 103 provincial parks in 10 years and the ranking numbers will have to change.<br />
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Second, the outfit. Last year my last grandparent passed away, and before you get all teary on me, they all had big, far-reaching, and long lives and I was lucky to know them for as long as I did. Last Christmas, presents were being exchanged of some of the belongings of my Whale grandparents and at least part of, if not the whole family, thought I would enjoy Elwin's summer relaxing outfit. I told them I would wear it at least once on every camping trip this year and I am a man of my word. So that completely explains that.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sandhill crane from last September's trip. Beautiful weird bird.</td></tr>
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Lastly, after camping in the early part of last year I realized I needed a new hobby because there were no mushrooms to find until late summer. As well as the outfit, I also inherited a pair of binoculars (which I forgot the first trip of the season) and a bird book. So with each blog will come, I hope, at least one picture of a bird I saw on my trip. Well, I hope you're ready because Silent Lake is coming right up.Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-24018671066616432182014-04-11T15:33:00.002-04:002014-07-21T09:00:23.817-04:00Restoule now tell me, Am I really going to love you forever, Oh, Oh, Oh, Or am I caught in a Hit and Run?If you've ever been on a long trip there is often a moment where you'd rather be home, or in a bed, or dry, or any place, but where you are. Upon arriving in <b><a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/restoule">Restoule Provincial Park</a></b>, right after <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2014/03/cheater-park-with-beverley-and-robert.html">Cheaters Park</a> and before that the curse of <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/10/the-curse-of-lake-nagagamisis.html">Lake Nagagamisis</a>, I was on the brink. Thankful for the great rest at Cheaters park and a chance to refresh ourselves, we were now camping well into the second weekend of September and the weather was not showing signs of being an <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_summer">Indian summer</a>. (Should be First Nations summer as it is not referring to a summer in the land of curries.) While driving the long and winding road into Restoule, I was shocked at how many deer we spotted and it made me think of how, in a month, my father and brother would be shooting them.<br />
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Not all of the provincial parks are open in September, so you have to check which ones stay open later, but if they are open, and you're game, you pretty much have the place to yourself. We had our pick of the sites and chose a nice one by the beach.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev in welcome/tah dah pose at site 236 at Restoule.</td></tr>
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The site was fairly private, but as always, provincial park + hardwood bush = you can see your neighbours. Luckily for us we were the only ones around so we had no neighbours. After setting up we set off on a hike and mushroom hunt (Shhhh. We're hunting mushrooms). The first hike we did was the <b>Angels Point Trail</b> (2.5 km) -- an easy hike where we killed a lot of mushrooms. This was the sort of hike that you take with your kids or your parents just to get off the campsite. That being said, because it was prime mushroom season, Bev and I enjoyed ourselves thoroughly.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pave this trail and it's a scene from Miller's Crossing.</td></tr>
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The second hike we did was the <b>River Trail</b> (2 km) -- more of a moderate hike through another hardwood bush, we were surprised we didn't get to murder any mushrooms. I think they got word and all went into hiding. This hike was more our speed and beautiful, but because there were very few mushrooms, we enjoyed ourselves ever so slightly less. <b>Rangers Point</b> (1km) is a flat easy trail that takes you along a river to Stormy Lake. It is suggested that you take a picnic and go on this trail, but personally I think this is a trail to teach your one year old how to hike. There is a nice view of Stormy Lake, yet let's put it this way; we didn't take a picture of it.<br />
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I now must confess. We decided that we were only going to stay one night at this park sometime during our first day and when you do that, you have to be choosy on what you do and what you skip. I don't feel right anymore only going to a park for a night and reviewing it, because I find that you always miss something (maybe a second night?). On that note, the other two hikes are <b>Gibs Trail</b> (? km) which is a linear trail meaning at some point you have to choose to turn around and travel the same path back. Gibs travels outside the park into crown land which I worry about because I think I would want to see the end of the <i>unmarked, unmaintained</i> trail and may never be seen again. If we had the time I think this would have been our favourite trail and many a mushroom would have perished. Lastly, <b>Fire Tower Trail</b> (7km) is a challenging hike to the top of the bluffs and a historical fire tower. We did the tiniest bit of this hike through a pine bush and enjoyed it, however I have to assume if you have seen one fire tower you have seen them all.<br />
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It may seem like we didn't enjoy ourselves at Restoule and that is simply untrue. We walked down to the beautiful beach, we did as many hikes as we had time for, and we checked out the entire campsite which is mostly a smart set up, with many sites at various elevations so no site is staring at their neighbours. Due to this, I was confused by a bit of the history. This park was originally a farm, but with all the hills I have to wonder what they were farming?<br />
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In an effort to include other points of view I want to say that a friend of mine, Charles Lehmann, really had a bad time here. Upon further questioning (using <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSe38dzJYkY#aid=P8stw7Eturw" target="_blank">the comfy chair and the pointy cushions</a>), he admitted his drive to the park was long and uncomfortable, the water was too warm, the floor of the lake was mucky, he had a run in with an Ontario outhouse cobra and there was a fire ban.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Charles after his run in with the Ontario outhouse Cobra!</td></tr>
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All of these things can ruin a camping trip and we are usually very careful to avoid these things at all cost. For example:<i> <b>Fun Fact: to anyone who wants to go camping on May 24 weekend watch out that there isn't an alcohol ban at your park, unless you like it that way. Personally I don't like being told what to do.</b></i> For us camping is about being together and great food over an open fire. Enter the internal monologue : I'm not one to show off my food normally and a part of me is already feeling guilty for wanting to do it and another part hates the first part, but I do want to show the wild mushrooms and I've done that in the past without any problems. Hell I do it again at the end of this Blog post. Screw it, I'm going to do it. Exit the internal monologue. Here is what we ate at Restoule.<br />
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Restoule is also a great jumping off point for canoe trips, they have back country sites available all the way to lake Nipissing. It looks amazing, but unfortunately I don't think we'll get a chance to try it for about 7 years from now. The best sites are; at Kettle Point Campground numbers 424, 426, 430, 432, 435, 437, 438, and 440. At Putts Point Campground numbers 233, 234, 235, 236, 253, 257, and 309. And at Bell's Point Campground numbers 4, 7, 8, 16, 29, 39, 41, 43, 44, 47, 49, 50, and 53 -- be warned at Bell's it's a bit of a walk to the beach.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>If you are canoeing then you could stay for two weeks in the back country enjoying yourself, but if you are on a family trip I would suggest 4 days. A hike a day, a swim a day and rent a canoe for a day to check out some of the close lakes and fishing.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> I liked Restoule, but we were there at a good time of year for me. Privacy I think would be an issue if this park was full and it wouldn't be hard to fill that beach in the same circumstances and if the bottom is all weeds and muck well then you might not want to be in the water for long. Two of the hikes were silly easy, but they had three that were/would have been fun. </b></b><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oyster mushroom or Pleurotus Ostreatus. Edible.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Amanita Muscaria or Fly Agaric. Poisonous.</td></tr>
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<br />Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Restoule Provincial Park, 8818 Highway 534, Restoule, ON P0H 2R0, Canada46.0732855 -79.783136746.0292215 -79.8638177 46.117349499999996 -79.7024557tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-39428518219740389512014-03-11T16:51:00.001-04:002014-07-22T09:48:18.741-04:00Cheater Park with Beverley and Robert<b>Disclaimer: This is a joke and should not be taken seriously within the context of the Blog.</b><br />
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After having a glorious cheater night in North Bay September 2013, I think it only right to talk about rain. Rain can kill a camping trip before it ever starts, I can't tell you how many times we've returned home with sand in every crevice ... of our camping gear. A three day rainy stretch in any camping trip is bad, but an East wind September rain is only good if you are wanting to be sick or toughen yourself up for winter. Here are a few tips to any of you campers out there if you want to try a camping trip with a chance of rain;<br />
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<li>Always bring a raincoat. If you have rain-pants even better, even if it's just for getting up in the middle of the night -- if you know what I mean.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">See raincoats and happiness. Please don't question what camp site we are at.</td></tr>
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<li>Get an eating tent. I know it may seem extravagant (about $200), but if you can hang out and be dry then the rain doesn't make you question whether you should wake up at 7am and go home from lake Erie (Rock Point). It's also good for bugs, can block the wind, and it's a great place to store things like dry wood, clean cooking gear and drink coolers. </li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A simple man with his simple eating tent.</td></tr>
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<li>Potato Chips are an amazing fire-starter. I guess it's the oil in them (which I wish I could unlearn) but if you need to get a fire started in the rain potato chips will give you a consistent flame for up to 3 minutes to get everything else started.</li>
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<li>When setting up your sleeping tent always take into account which direction is west and the angle of the ground. (personally I like to be under trees and on grass if there is any question about weather)</li>
<li>Try to have some dry wood. If your wood is wet you'll never get a fire started. As a side note if you are ever going to Fundy National Park bring your own wood.</li>
<li>When all else fails -- get a hotel.</li>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: </b>I would honestly put this park at 99, but truly this is a 1% sort of camping spot. Now on to Restoule!</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0North Bay, ON, Canada46.3091152 -79.46082039999998945.9583067 -80.1062674 46.6599237 -78.815373399999984tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-62690264058895016352014-03-07T12:36:00.001-05:002015-07-22T12:23:47.705-04:00Bronte Creek Provincial Park: A Gateway park is not quite the Real Thing<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Near the end of the summer 2013 we decided to jump out of town to a Provincial Park. <a href="https://www.ontarioparks.com/park/brontecreek">Bronte Creek Provincial Park</a> is only 40 minutes outside of Toronto in good traffic -- that's a funny key to this park, good traffic. You could also take the Go train to Bronte station a 10 minutes bike or cab from the park so people who are vehicularly challenged this is a park for you.<br />
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Bronte Creek is a provincial park smack dab in the middle between Oakville and Burlington. Beautiful park land and a pioneer village have been transformed into a gateway provincial park for beginners. I think it's important to note that I am not a fan of this park. A gateway park for amateurs is not my problem, but here is what is from my judging criteria for provincial parks. Just for fun I'm going to rate each of the categories out of 10.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Site Cleanliness:</b> 1 out of 10 for the square footage that didn't have someone else's garbage on it. </b>Awful. The great young lady at the front gates gave me one of the best sites at the park and I was cleaning up the site the whole time I was there. I don't want to blame beginners, but for you beginners out there, whatever you bring into the park you should take out of the park or dispose of at the garbage and recycling stations located in every provincial park. At this park it was everything from bread clips, twist ties, elastics and bottle caps (pretty normal) to glass (less so) to dirty diapers (never happened before), I think I spent 2 hours cleaning my site and the surrounding area and filled a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zehrs_Markets">Zehrs</a> bag.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Privacy:</b> 1 out of 10 for the percentage of sites that are private. </b>There are some sites that are private, but most are in the middle of an open field -- so if it rains you better have an eat tent or something else to do, I guess you could always drive 10 minutes into town to a pub, restaurant or, worst case scenario, a hotel. The good sites at Bronte Creek are; nothing in Prairie, 229 in Savannah, 301-303, 316, 317, 320, 324, 327, and 328 in Woodland, and 406-409 and 417 in the Ravine. So out of 144 sites they only have 15 that can remotely be considered private.<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Hiking and Activities: </b> 5 out of 10 for the kilometres it takes to get there. </b>Here is the only thing Bronte Creek does well, the park has 5 trails, a frisbee golf course, baseball diamonds, a petting farm zoo, a model airplane flying zone, a working farmhouse, and a nature centre -- sounds amazing right? BUT they are all a 5 kilometre drive from the campground on the QEW. There are no trails, no roads, and no zip lines to connect the campground to 98% of the activities the park has to offer. <br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">What are the 2% of activities you don't have to drive to? The campground has an amphitheatre where the staff do programs for children. We went to see an evening program called <i>Flashy Feathers and Bashful Birds</i> where we learned all about LBB's or little brown birds. To be completely serious the multi-media talk was for children, but both Bev and I really enjoyed it. (Says something about us I guess) The other percent is for the 2 trails at the campground: one to get people to the park office (Gateway Trail -- no description) with a beautiful view of the adjacent subdivision and the other is a decent trail through the forest and what use to be farmers' fields:</span></b><br />
<b style="font-weight: normal;"><br />Field and Forest Trail </b>(3.5 km): This was a decent hike through Carolinian forest with some wild apple trees and a little bit of wildlife. If you do get lost on the trail you end up in a subdivision so make sure you look at the map before you leave your campsite. (At the Campground)<br />
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Trillium Trail (1km): Another walk through the forest on top of the ravine. From what I understand this is a great place in the Spring to see different wildflowers.<br />
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Half Moon Valley Trail (2km): I enjoyed this trail, where you go down into the ravine through swampier bits and along Bronte creek. Be careful the <a href="http://www.canadiangardening.com/how-to/pests-and-diseases/beware-of-giant-hogweed/a/31773">Giant Hogweed</a> (dangerous invasive species) has found it's way in here and is along the trail. (Also there is an MP3 audio guide that you don't know about until you get to Bronte Creek) <a href="http://www.brontecreek.org/index.php/the-park/facilities/trails.html" target="_blank">Click here for the link to the MP3 audio guide.</a><br />
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The two other trails, Maiden's Blush Trail (1km) and the Ravine Trail (2.7km), we didn't do because we were too busy playing disc golf or <a href="http://www.discgolfontario.com/">Frolf</a>.<br />
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If you don't know what Frolf is then check it out where you are. There are courses all over and since we played Frolf here at Bronte we have played courses in <a href="http://www.tbnewswatch.com/news/103833/City's-disc-golf-course-up-and-running">Thunder Bay</a>, <a href="http://www.deltatangobravo.com/images/wards-island-disc-golf-course.pdf">Toronto Island</a>, <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/mikisew">Mikisew Provincial Park</a>, and <a href="http://www.ondisc.org/?page=CDG">Chicopee Ski Hill</a> in Kitchener. What I have been told is that the course at Bronte Creek is one of the best in Ontario and I believe it. All you have to know is that frolf is frisbee golf. So you start in the tee box.<br />
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You can buy weighted frisbees to throw your tee shot farther but we just went to Canadian Tire for our frisbees. The object is to try to get it in a chain linked hole 100 to 200 metres away.<br />
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Beverley and I have had so much fun doing this now we look for it everywhere we go and would like to start a Frolf league in Toronto if anyone would like to join.<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> </b></b><br />
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<b>Park Class: </b> 1 out of 10. Recreation, but you have to travel 5 km to do most of it.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> 0 out of 10, for what I liked about this. Now here is my personal favourite. This is the only park I know of so far that has a pool for their water. And I'm thinking 'No problem this pool is 1.8 acres in size'. So on the first day, I'm by myself and I figure I'll go for a swim. I drive the five kilometres and have to park a kilometre from the pool, no biggie. I make the walk to the Kiosk and the nice staff person tells me I need to show proof that I'm camping at Bronte Creek. Makes sense, you don't want to allow day use people in the pool, sure. So I trek back to my car and get proof that I'm staying at the park. The next time I'm at the kiosk I show my camping proof and the nice young staff person informs me that it will cost $3.25 for an adult and $2.25 for a youth, so it's another trip to the car for me. Once I was finally in the pool area I was unimpressed. The pool is only 6 feet deep at the centre.</b></b><b><b style="font-weight: normal;"> It was the beginning of August and the water was frigid cold -- colder than Lake Huron in June! There was ample space for people to lie out on towels or enjoy a meal with their family, but I like <a href="http://www.insidetoronto.com/community-static/74066-riverdale-park-east-pool/">Riverdale Pool</a> across from my house better than this one and Riverdale pool is free! </b></b></div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> 1 out of 10. I am not the right camper for this Provincial Park. This park is for people who have never camped before, people who cannot drive more than an hour from home, and claustrophobics. This is the type of place for an early to bed bush party, where a bunch of people of age could go for a party that ends at 11pm. The day use area is great but the province should invest in a bridge or a pay zip line to cross the ravine between the campground and day use area. Just like something else I can think of that uses gateway as a prefix, it just can't be as good as the real thing. In the winter they hold a maple syrup festival in the day use area and they have a rink for skating so they have that going for them. But it seems they don't have a copy editor --</b></b><br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Bronte Creek Provincial Park, Oakville, ON L6M 4J743.418312 -79.7652049999999843.3721725 -79.845885999999979 43.4644515 -79.684523999999982tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-14656289508729587792014-02-04T10:10:00.002-05:002015-07-09T14:40:32.282-04:00Come Buy the Point Farms Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I figure just for shiggles I'd write this Blog as an ode to Charlie Farquharson. <br />
<a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/pointfarms">Point on the Farms</a>. By Robert C Fidler<br />
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We woke with the <a href="http://jerseygiant.ca/home">roosters</a> the day we were leaving <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2014/01/ill-raise-your-huron-with-inverhuron.html">Inverhuron</a>. Had a cup of the black stuff and hit the road, rubber side down. Now the two parks are only 'bout 50 some odd clicks apart so we took the winedy trail closest to the water to get there. Some people got alot of money stashed along the coast of Huron in the way of cottages and boats and maybe just stashes, but we's was more interested in the water. Took us to 'bout time for lunch and a nap to get there and right outside Point Farms is a mini-golf -- can't wait.<br />
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Well we done go into the park and the oddest thing -- they don't sell burning wood, heck they don't sell lighting wood neither. They also don't sell ice and I think that dog don't hunt. Guess who does -- the mini-golf. So back out we go to get some wood and ice then finally to our site. We choose a good one, maybe the best one; number 188. It was big and private, but it did have a downfall -- the fire pit was under the power lines. Way back in school they used to joke 'bout people living under the power lines glowing like a firefly, but I figured if it was just for a couple of days maybe I just get a glowing personality. Here's what she looks like.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting into some lunch before setting up temporary shelters.</td></tr>
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The reason why it be called Point Farms, is dumb simple, it used to be farms. The government bought them up and opened up the provincial park back in '65. Once we set up, Bev and I went for a hike then down to the beach. The beach be something pretty like Inverhuron and a similar hike to get to her, but well worth it. Take a gander.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">There's my gal behind the magical picnic table. Beach volleyball be included in the deal.</td></tr>
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Far as the hikes go there's a few that circle 'round the campground, so I'll do her clockwise and try to be clear. <b>Ravine Trail</b> (12 min.) from the beach to the group camping road, travels along this little crick where tonnes of birds and other vermin hang out. Government couldn't kick 'em off the farm. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Grosbeak checking us out. Figure it must be Germans who named this bird cause I think the beak is not bad looking.</td></tr>
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From there you catch the <b>Old Farm Trail</b> (1hr); goes by the ole barn, the grazing fields, orchards, and marsh that used to make up the old farms. Again flocks of birds, but also different wild apple and pear trees, no vermin (that we saw), <a href="http://www.ontariobutterflies.ca/families/nymphalidae/eyed-brown">butterflies</a>, and a bunch of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolinian_forest">Carolinian forest</a> varieties. An easy hike, but good for the britches and a great deal to look at. Like this.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This ole farm it ain't what it use to be, ain't what it use to be, ain't what it use to be. </td></tr>
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At the end of this one is another called <b>Below the Bluff Trail</b> (8 min.) which takes you just inside the forest, below the bluff, but not yet in the sand dunes. The only real good reason for this trail is to join the other two or if you hate beaches.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Look the beach gone and ate that picnic table Martha. Let's go home. I hate beaches."</td></tr>
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Sites there be good and bad, the good ones are in Huron #93 and 99 and in Colborne #167, 168, 178, 184, and 188. All in all this is a good campground 'cause of the beach, but similar to Inverhuron just without the Nuclear Power Plant beside it. Yeah?<br />
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Site Cleanliness:</b> The rangers did a good job of cleaning it for the start of the season.</b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Privacy:</b> </b>Good is good. Bad is not good. Lots of not good because it's in a hardwood bush (but it's better than some others).</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> </b>There is a ball diamond, thought that was kind of cool. The hiking is good and bird watching amazing.</div>
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<b><br /></b><b>Park Class: </b> I've got to guess this is Historical like the last for the same reasons as the last and I am ... wrong. Recreational class and I get it because there was much more to do here then at Inverhuron.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> Not great. While being on top of a Bluff has it's advantages (less wind, beautiful view, the chance to write bluff) it still took at least 15 minutes to get down the 20 meters to the beach.</b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>I would say easily 3 days; every day you would want some beach time, one could do a small hike every day, mini-golf, and there is a great deal of nature to check out.</div>
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<b><b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> Bev and I did enjoy our stay at Point Farms. We spent many hours in the water, couple hours hiking, and we did play mini-golf, which she let me win. It's a good park, like Inverhuron, but because there are not a lot of totally private sites, and it's a hike to the beach it has to be ranked accordingly.</b></b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: </b> Just a smidge better than Inverhuron, let's say by 3, so #53 she be. </div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Point Farms Provincial Park, Ashfield-Colborne-Wawanosh, ON, Canada43.8028668 -81.71578879999998443.779947299999996 -81.756129299999984 43.8257863 -81.675448299999985tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-34971471124211752222014-01-29T13:50:00.000-05:002015-07-09T14:41:11.882-04:00I'll raise your Huron with an Inverhuron Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Back when we all thought the Blue Jays had a World Series team the last week of June 2013, Bev and I were out camping for a week along lake Huron. Our first stop was <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/inverhuron" target="_blank">Inverhuron Provincial Park</a>, just north of Kincardine. The start of camping season for us is always an exciting time when money is just paper and at that time it still was. And I can remember back in aught 9 when we still had a penny too, but I digress. On the way to the park, we found <a href="http://www.hoitytoitycellars.ca/" target="_blank">Hoity Toity Cellars</a> on Kings Highway 9 just south of Walkerton, where we decided to stock up on some Ciders to enjoy during our trip (made solely with fruit, I asked -- no water involved, if anybody's watching). <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No, I'm not getting paid for this plug. <br />
It was just great ciders with unassuming names like '66 Pick-up' and 'Paint the Shed Red'.</td></tr>
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Now for any of you out there <u>without</u> young children, the last week of June is one of the best times of the year for camping. The weather is warm enough for swimming (in the twenties most days), most campgrounds are quiet during the week (with students still in school), the beaches, trails and campsites are pristine (freshly cleaned for the season), fishing is good (not yet spooked by a culling), and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X66atvFy2xE&feature=youtube_gdata_player">the staff</a> are all super friendly and helpful (not jaded by the job yet). You will miss out on the campground programs, which I get so much information out of, but understandably they are usually geared towards children (For example <i>Flashy feathers and bashful birds talk</i> at Bronte Creek or <i>Invasive species talk</i> at Darlington which I'll talk about in future blogs).<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And no, I'm not getting paid for this plug. View of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Nuclear_Generating_Station">Bruce Nuclear Plant</a> from the trail at Inverhuron <br />
-- couldn't they just put up a big blue curtain?</td></tr>
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And now a short history lesson: Inverhuron opened in 1956 with 351 campsites and offered families a campground with a beautiful beach, hiking and overnight camping and there was much rejoicing. Yah! Then in 1970 the province of Ontario decided to place Bruce Nuclear power plant on it's northern border. Why not? I'm sure some people loved watching the construction in the early days but in 1976 concerns rose about the production of heavy water. Eleven percent denser water means more floating, but don't drink more than 50% of your body weight or you'll shuffle off this mortal coil. And Inverhuron was reduced to a day use park only. Boo! Bruce Nuclear stopped producing heavy water in 1998 when they started using enriched uranium. Yeah? And overnight camping resumed in 2005 with 125 campsites. Whew! <a href="http://www.foca.on.ca/xinha/plugins/ExtendedFileManager/demo_images/Inverhuron_Provincial_Park___Holmes_Bay_Campground_Development_Notice_July_2013.pdf" target="_blank">Inverhuron is redeveloping</a> and eventually wants to have 250 campsites, new trails, and an amphitheatre. By my count only 90 more sites and an amphitheatre to go.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The back exit of our site, right onto the trail. It's not the beach but you can get your feet wet anytime you want.</td></tr>
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The sites at this park are excellent when it comes to privacy, other than the gaping hole to the trail. One can easily solve this problem by putting a tent up to block any looky-loo's or maybe a curtain. The best sites at Inverhuron were chosen for privacy and not necessarily because of their proximity to the water since there are no sites right on the beach, but 7 and 72 are really close. The best sites are #7, 27, 68, 72 (the best), 113, 159, and 169. Bev and I were both pleased with the site we chose and the beach. And here they are in that order.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site 159, left side. Obviously after dishes, as our towel racks are full.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site 159, right side. You'll notice we plugged the hole with our sleeping tent and put up a choke wire for any <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwwY9y6O3hw">raiders.</a></td></tr>
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The trail right out of the back of 27 of the campsites leads south to the beach which at most could be a kilometre away. Not crazy convenient, but not <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/08/turkey-point-is-turkey.html" target="_blank">Turkey Point</a>.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The beach at Inverhuron and as an added bonus; a boat launch.</td></tr>
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Before this trip, I thought lake Huron would be freezing cold at this time of year and I was happily mistaken. All along the coast of Huron there are sand dunes and because of that there are mini sand dune/bars in the water. So you go out the first 20 feet and the water is beautifully warm and probably only 3-4 feet deep, then there is a sand bar, then there's another 20 feet of tepid water about 4-5 feet deep, and then another sand bar, then it's swimming time in cool to frigid cold water. And I guess that's how sand dunes work. The single hike the campground offers, <b>Scenic Drive Trail</b> (4km) was an easy hike that goes the full distance of the park and could be done by mountain bike if you're into that sort of thing. As a side note, this was the first time I saw a Yellow Lady's Slipper wild orchid and it made me smile because I have killed/given up on so many orchids in the last few years. <br />
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All in all this was a good start to the trip. <br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>I'm going to be kind and say 3 days, 2 nights. If you bring a boat and want to fish then it could be much longer. I think this is a great relaxation park, but I can't wait to see it in a couple of years.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Inverhuron Provincial Park, 19 Park Road, Inverhuron, ON N0G 2T0, Canada44.2997333 -81.58808669999996344.2770053 -81.628427199999962 44.3224613 -81.547746199999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-78697431859426542462014-01-24T09:25:00.002-05:002015-07-09T15:19:05.297-04:00Quetico Provincial Park : A Hermit's Haven, A Canoeist's Cornucopia and A Wild Mushroom Wonderland<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Welcome to <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/quetico" target="_blank">Quetico Provincial Park</a>, the <a href="http://ontprovparksreviewsandbestcampsites.blogspot.ca/2013/08/algonquin-park-north-tea-lake.html" target="_blank">Algonquin</a> of the
north (or Algonquin is the Quetico of the South) and the park you should plan
for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this trip, Beverley and I
planned to stay for 3 nights and that wasn’t enough, period, dot the i and
cross the e, because the t is already a cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Similar to Algonquin
you could spend a lifetime exploring this park, but if you only have three days
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</span>When we arrived early September 2013, there were more cars parked in the canoe launch than
there were in the rest of the park and that is because Quetico is a canoeist’s
paradise. "We spent three days, living in a canoeist paradise," thanks <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?q=Coolio+picture&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=iu&imgil=BYOXUF9vo-5vUM%253A%253Bhttp%253A%252F%252Ft3.gstatic.com%252Fimages%253Fq%253Dtbn%253AANd9GcSLbcPh0ifz4MnpmyYm1iqbuH7S9O3e-Fj3ZkapQPDa9OVjONV2%253B500%253B333%253BlU6ZiR7YtnKlbM%253Bhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.last.fm%25252Fmusic%25252FCoolio&sa=X&ei=FH_iUqDdMMjH2QW0loGABA&ved=0CDYQ9QEwBQ&biw=1044&bih=660#facrc=_&imgdii=_&imgrc=BYOXUF9vo-5vUM%253A%3BlU6ZiR7YtnKlbM%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fuserserve-ak.last.fm%252Fserve%252F500%252F27787797%252FCoolio%25252BNS067.jpg%3Bhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.last.fm%252Fmusic%252FCoolio%3B500%3B333" target="_blank">Coolio</a>. Lake upon beautiful lake abound in this northern park and the fishing,
I hazard to say, is better than Algonquin, just not for us.</div>
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Our site was the best in the park (always a good first step, #11 in Chippewa)
and nightly we went to bed listening to the water and the lovely loons. All of
the sites next to the water in Chippewa Campground have a private canoe launch, where you can tie up for the night or tie one on as the canoeists say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone talks about the fishing here, but because we
didn’t have a canoe all we caught were a couple of babies close to shore.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">From Left to Right: Tyler Whale, Robert Fidler, Korb Whale, and Derek Fidler.<br />
Looks like Tyler has been out of the water for too long and Korb looks exactly the same 38 years later.</td></tr>
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If you want to hike, the trans-Canada trail travels over 90 km south through this park to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada-US_border" target="_blank">U.S. border</a>, but there are also four family friendly hikes you could
do straight from the campsites. I promise not to talk too much about mushrooms, but I
can’t guarantee anything. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>Teaching
Trail</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (3.4 km) was the first of the three
hikes we attacked during our stay and here was the first time I have found
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chanterelle" target="_blank">Chanterelles</a> (Cinibar Chanterelle). </span>Bright orange, they stick out in the forest like a hermit relieving themselves.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cinibar Chanterelle; cook with butter and salt and pepper, sweet, earthy and solid.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">O.k. <u>not
about</u> mushrooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This moderate
hike was a length and a loop following the water and joining the two
campgrounds. Gorgeously overgrown forest and abundant wildlife surround this trail. </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Quetico, Quetico, Quetico, it's the campground for me. <br />
Mushroom hiking or fishing or just beating Beverley (in Cards).<br />
Can you guess the song? Answer at the end of the Blog.</td></tr>
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Second the <b>Whiskey Jack Nature Trail</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (1.7 km) is a partially boardwalked trail that takes
you through marsh, rock and forest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Again a moderate trail it is a bird, blueberry, and mushroom
cornucopia.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-weight: normal;">Now Beverley and I
originally wanted to do some back-country camping but it would have meant a 5km
hike on </span><b>The Pines Hike</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> in and
out with all of our gear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m glad
we chose to forgo it, but we did hike in to the first backcountry site to see
what we were missing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We found
more boletes than two people would ever be able to eat. There were easily 30
different varieties of mushrooms along the trail, we literally stopped every
two minutes to check out a different variety.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavariadelphus_ligula" target="_blank">Strap Shaped Coral Mushrooms</a> getting ready to attack. Fun Fact under each of these mushrooms is a worm trying to escape. (Inedible)</td></tr>
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Wait, STOP! Remember no mushroom
talk.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The backcountry campsite was
as nice as we’ve seen since Algonquin.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The spacious back country site with seating and a fire pit. <a href="http://www.wikihow.com/Make-a-Camping-Toilet" target="_blank">Washroom? -- dig a hole.</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And we found this extremely strange mushroom;</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">A <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth" target="_blank">Blue Tooth Hydnellum Caeruleum</a>, I put my ear next to this mushroom and I swear my computer was talking to me.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(inedible)</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">YOU PROMISED. NOW, SHUT-UP ABOUT THE BLASTED MUSHROOMS ALREADY!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Then we found the private beach.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Life styles of the rich and famous camper... where's <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Leach" target="_blank">Robin Leach</a> when you need him?</td></tr>
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The third hike we did is simply called <b>Boardwalk </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">(1.6 km).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It was a really easy length and loop hike following the Pickerel River
from the day use beach to the information pavilion. There were quotes about
nature all along the Boardwalk mostly from naturalists and First Nations sources, that I found
really cool.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we found <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lycoperdon_perlatum" target="_blank">Studded Puffballs</a>! Smaller than the giant puffballs of
southern Ontario in my opinion they are similarly bland.</span><br />
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beaver dam in the middle and a falls at the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. and
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It felt like a real <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-aoWSpFor0" target="_blank">Hinterlands Who's Who</a>.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The falls were water descending over rocks and a fine destination but the highlight of the hike I really shouldn't mention. Here's what the falls looked like.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I wonder what make these falls French? Maybe the river just wanted another crossed e?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">Ah screw it -- There were Bolete's over 20 cm's tall and at least that wide. The slugs had gotten to them so we only took a couple, but I'd never seen them that big before. Fun Fact: Bolete's are any mushroom that has a sponge like underside and all of them are edible in Ontario apart from one that will turn black within minutes after its cut. This one is an orange Bolete.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I don't blame you if you've quit reading the <a href="http://northernbushcraft.com/guide.php?ctgy=edible_mushrooms&region=ontario" target="_blank">mushroom Blog</a>.</td></tr>
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Quetico turned 100 years old the year we visited and was originally formed to save waining moose populations from being shot for food. It is a gem, it is a jewel, and it is a place I recommend everyone to visit -- Newfoundland first, Quetico second.<br />
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On our last night, a couple pulled in just before dark and the rain and in true Beverley form she invited them over to our site to hang out. Well, before I knew it we were playing euchre with our new friends, Robin and Louis, until it was past the time to sleep. Camping is such that it is soo easy to make new friends, then it's just up to you to keep the friendship going.<br />
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The best sites at Quetico are in Ojibwa campground 55, 56, 79, 80, and 100 are the best, 50-54 and 90,92, 94, 96, and 98 are all beautiful, but very wide open. At Chippewa campground 11e*, 13-16 and 21 are best but everything by the water is great, but not <u>as</u> private. Here's our site.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A car park above your site.</td></tr>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>Two weeks is my recommendation because I don't think most people will get here more than once in their lifetime. There are canoe trips lasting 30 days, fishing for at least two weeks, hiking for a week and relaxing forever.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: </b>#3 for Jason Hannley and because I want to keep my options open. Jason Hannley is a friend of mine who loved the number three and because I think that this park has everything in three's. 1. Oh Lord this is beautiful. 2. Thank Jesus this is in Canada. 3. And if only the ghosts of this place could tell you a story.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Quetico Provincial Park, Atikokan, ON P0T 1C0, Canada48.469544 -91.45590909999998547.7944015 -92.746802599999981 49.1446865 -90.16501559999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-12405487752553077242014-01-16T13:38:00.000-05:002015-07-09T15:20:00.137-04:00The Yeas Outnumber the Neys Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We arrived at Neys Provincial Park September 3, 2013, after a six hour drive
along the coast of Lake Superior, and we immediately knew we should have stayed
for longer than a night (but maybe in the summer).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neys is
situated about dead centre between Wawa and Thunder Bay off the Trans-Canada
Highway #17 and used to be a POW camp, yes a prisoner of war camp; “Neys Camp 100” a camp for rowdy Germans during WWII. After that it was turned into a minimum security work camp for civilian prisoners from the Thunder Bay Area. So I guess you could say it has always been a camp.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best sites at Neys follow the norms
– close to the water and not too wide open, but at Neys there are no beachfront views and thank Jebus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At times a cold wind can blow off Superior making camping
less than enjoyable, so at Neys they have left a wind-break.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chairs, check. Cooler, Check. What else do you need?</td></tr>
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Our night at Neys wind wasn’t the issue, cold was, it went
down to 1ºC during the evening -- I guess summer ends August 31st?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve
never been winter camping, but what temperature does it have to be to be
considered winter camping? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Luckily, my body runs on broil after the lights go out (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jofNR_WkoCE" target="_blank">That's what the fox said</a>), so everything
but my face was fine. However, Bev buried herself in the sleeping bag only coming up
for air when completely necessary... brussel sprouts are a funny thing, don’t you
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bobrick for morning head warming. Originally I thought, who's using these for their head? I thought it was for your hands.</td></tr>
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<!--[if !supportEmptyParas]--> Other than the night weather, Neys was wondrous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the first night, we went for a half
hour long hike on the beach and I found some more boletes and a couple of
puffballs to cook for dinner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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the second day, we only had time for a hike and a half before hopping on the
road.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first was <b>Lookout
Trail </b>(2.5km)<span style="font-weight: normal;"> a trail of medium difficulty to a
lookout of Lake Superior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"I can see my house from here!" Tired of the panoramic shots yet?</td></tr>
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there were a fair amount of mushrooms, but the highlight of this hike, other
than the view, were the wild blueberries. Right at the end of the hike we were
able to pick about two pints in 15 minutes while eating as many as we
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev's attempt at a panorama or she was trying to tell me not so subtly I have my head in my own _____.</td></tr>
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Volcano Trail</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (1km).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One billion years ago there was an active shield
volcano located near Neys.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Throughout the trail there are information signs explaining interesting
geological events you can see in the rocks right before your eyes and that's without hallucinogenics.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If you have someone in your family
interested in geology it is fascinating, but for the average person the walk
along the water is what you're going for. Turn around when you feel like it because this trail joins the </span><b>Coastal Trail</b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> (19km) which could take you all day to finish or if you're feeling like some adventure to one of three interior/backcountry campsites. Next time.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under the Volcano at Neys.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">Before leaving, I chose to visit the campsite
clean-up station. I originally thought this was just a clever joke of an
employee at Neys until I saw the same thing at Quetico, Lake Nagagamisis and, I’m sure many other northern provincial parks.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Someone must have borrowed the second tool or they are one.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">I succumbed to my OCD by cleaning our entire campsite
turning it into a facsimile of a Japanese rock garden.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's an illness, but the next people will have the cleanest campsite in all of Ontario.</td></tr>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">I know most people will only ever get to Neys Provincial Park once in their lifetime, but I highly recommend it.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 16px;">If it helps you’re only 5 hours from Quetico Provincial Park (The Algonquin of the North) so this is a perfect stop before one would get there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">The best sites at Neys are as follows: Area 2 68 to 72, 75 to 77, Area 3 29e, 43e-46, 48, 50-53, 55, 57, 59, 61, 63, 65, 66, and 68, Area 4 99, 103, 106, 113, 120, 122, 127, and 138. In my opinion #53 and 68 are the absolute best. I think this park is a recreational park as there is so much to do here, but it also has an historical element. I guess recreation. And the answer is... Natural Environment. Ahhhh.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Privacy:</b> Great. Again with the northern parks there is more space and therefore more privacy -- we could see our neighbours a tiny bit, but with proper placement of a tent they all but disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Hiking and Activities:</b> Amazing. There is so much to do at Neys, but the water is still Lake Superior and therefore swimming is going to be a bit cool. There is fishing and canoeing here as well.</span></div>
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<b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Park Class: </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> This 5384 hectare park is a natural environment class park that includes Pic Island, Detention Island and the Sullivan Islands. The ghost village of Coldwell is just on the eastern border of the park consisting of some foundations, shipwrecks in the harbour and a cemetery if you're not afraid.</span></b></span><br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Neys Provincial Park, Thunder Bay, Unorganized, ON, Canada48.7287617 -86.57934219999998548.5612007 -86.90206569999998 48.8963227 -86.25661869999999tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-44678169166097693362013-10-31T11:06:00.002-04:002015-07-09T15:22:57.023-04:00The Curse of Lake Nagagamisis Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
So for halloween I thought I would tell you a horror story of a camping trip... <br />
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Almost out of gas we pulled into <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/nagagamisis" target="_blank">Nagagamisis Provincial Park</a> which is about a half hour south of highway 11, the northern Trans-Canada highway from Nipigon to North Bay, on the lonely highway 631 towards Hornepayne. The closest city on highway 11 is Hearst an hour away. Now if you don't have the faintest clue where I am talking about, think of an isolated campground perfect for a horror movie farther north than Timmins (Home of Shania Twain -- Scary). I imagined Nagagamisis would be like Wakami just farther north and I was hoping to catch fish, look at mushrooms, and enjoy a fire by the lake. To begin I was right on the money, our site #32 was gorgeous.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Looking north onto Lake Nagagamisis before the Horror.<br />
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After we set up camp I went to talk to a ranger about renting a canoe for the next day and found some white elfin saddle mushrooms; not edible but totally cool looking -- everything was working out perfectly. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They were everywhere at Nagagamisis, never saw an elf though.</td></tr>
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Beverley and I had a lovely dinner and decided to go to bed shortly after dark. I must point out it was the second week in September 2013, so the night was not likely to be a warm one. An hour and a half into a lovely slumber I awoke to find a ghost had let the air out of our mattress. I thought simply, 'pesky ghost', refilled the mattress and went back to bed. Another hour and a half ticks away and we again wake on a cold smooth rock under the tent. This time I was a little more upset with the ghost and, after marking my territory and filling the mattress, I was sure that would be the end of our problems. But no, yet another hour and a half and I awoke on the very cold Canadian shield that was slowly breaking my back. What is it people say about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome? So this time we checked the mechanism of the mattress and realized that the ghost had really got us as they had magically set up the mattress ever so slightly incorrect so that it would leak all night. After fixing a mechanical defect it was off to a chilly dreamland fearing only <a href="http://www.imdb.com/media/rm3380184832/tt0087800?ref_=tt_pv_md_1" target="_blank">Freddy</a> or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sandman_(Vertigo)" target="_blank">Sandman</a>.<br />
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The next morning we woke up to the burly ranger asking us if we still wanted the canoe. As I exited the tent, the ranger looked haggard from what I have to assume was a night of being a werewolf or vampire. The morning was calm with a slight wind and I was still hopeful that we might have a meal of fresh fish so I answered affirmative and paid for a day canoe rental a mere $25. Upon inquiring about bait the ranger gladly gave us the rest of his minnows, howled, and was on his way. After a quick breakfast we quickly went to the canoe on Park Lake (the second lake at the campsite with no motor boats) and prepared to depart. I don't know if it was the unfulfilling sleep or if we were poisoned sometime during the night, but when we embarked onto the water we maybe got 10 yards from the dock before the wind picked up and the lake monster grabbed our canoe stopping us dead on the water. Bev and I paddled for probably 15 minutes before giving up and floating back to the dock. We did fish from the dock and shore for about 20 minutes but it must have been a north-easter wind because we had no luck and so retreated back to our campsite.<br />
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There were tonnes of mushrooms; boletes, chanterelles, and flat top coral, and they slowly made Robert crazy.</div>
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The Time Trail is an easy loop hike with a brochure of points of interest you can get from the Park Office. The second trail <b>The Shaganash Trail</b> (4 km) leaves Shaganash campground and heads south to Park Lake follows it and then loops around the front of the park to Lake Nagagamisis following it until it returns to the opposite end of the same campground. The Shaganash Trail is a moderate loop that looks more at old growth forest and its relationship to the lakes, again with loads of mushrooms. It ends at a special feature of the park -- the fish smoker. Many of the parks have fish cleaning stations, but this is the first one I have seen with a fish smoker. Too bad we didn't catch any fish.</div>
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Returning to the campsite, the sky became as black as sack cloth and the dead started rising and Bev and I decided to put up our eating tent -- yes we have an eating tent. A fire was built to keep evil spirits away and soon it was time for bed again. An hour after I fell asleep Bev woke me up to calmly inform me that the tent was eating her alive. Thinking that the tent was broken I went outside to realize that indeed the tent was attacking her with help of the wind, but it wasn't broken. If I had my camera I could have started work on Paranormal Activities 17 or maybe the Blair tent project. I returned to the tent to sleep, but it was too much for Bev -- "To the car!" Rob "Noooooooo! The Horror. The Horror." Within an hour the storm was gone but my sleep in the car had barely begun. The next morning I was up at sunrise, cleaned up the site in 30 minutes and we left promising never to talk about the Curse of Nagagamisis again. The End.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>If you are canoeing or fishing: 7-10 days, any less than that and there isn't a point in going so far. If you are not, I figure 3 days is enough you could rent a boat for a day, hike for a day, and relax the whole time.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: #</b>23 I hold it in the same high regard as Wakami, but there is no need for a gun at this park so... Wakami is #22 now because you might need your 22 for the bears in the area and Nagagamisis is #23 for the classic mystery, drama, thriller of the same name starring a talented Canadian boy named Jim Carey. Happy Halloween everyone.<br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Nagagamisis Provincial Park, Algoma, Unorganized, North Part, ON, Canada49.5135798 -84.80706909999997848.203442800000005 -87.388856099999984 50.8237168 -82.225282099999973tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-18597109087955519422013-10-25T16:09:00.001-04:002014-07-22T10:03:08.636-04:00Chutes Provincial Park not to Narrow (Thanks Shins)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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For some reason Beverley thought that <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/chutes" target="_blank">Chutes Provincial Park</a> was not going
to be a great park, but upon arrival she realized how wrong she was.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> But only this once. </span>Chutes is dazzling.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Chutes is the provincial park
that made me realize, northern Ontario parks are better. Now, wait, before I’m lynched, I wish to
make my case.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Northern parks have
more physical space and therefore, can maintain sites that are lovely, quiet, and private. Now hang away.</div>
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Chutes Provincial Park was named for the logging chutes on
the Sauble River that use to sit on top of the stunning waterfall at the north
end of the town of Massey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Massey
is a half hour outside of Espanola, if you take the Chicheemaun, or about an hour east of Sudbury. When the logging company closed in the early nineteen sixties there was
talk of building a hydro-electric dam over these falls, but the province decided to keep the
natural water feature and create a provincial park. Thank-you. I guessed this park is a natural environment park. Wrong. Chutes is a recreation park, so I'm one for one in my guessing game. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Historical log jam at Chutes. <a href="http://www.museevirtuel-virtualmuseum.ca/sgc-cms/histoires_de_chez_nous-community_memories/pm_v2.php?id=record_detail&fl=0&lg=English&ex=263" target="_blank">Photograph from the Hugh Cummings Collection Then and Now</a>.</td></tr>
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This park began our end of the summer camping extravaganza
to see Bev’s parents again in September 2013.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were going to try to see three provincial parks on the
way to Thunder Bay (dumb idea), one on the other side of TB (Quetico to come), and then three on the way back
to Toronto (didn't happen).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we arrived at
Chutes planning to stay a single night, it only took an hour for that plan to be thrown straight out the
metaphorical window. Because of Chutes, I thought it would be smart to add a
category to the end of each of my blogs: Suggested Length of Stay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For Chutes the answer would be 3 Days –
Day one set up, Day 2 Hike and Swim, Day 3 Sit and stare at the waterfall
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Bev staring at the falls. Told you.</td></tr>
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In the past 4 years, I have tried to learn as much as
possible about Mycology (fancy word for the study of mushrooms) sometimes to the dismay of
Beverley, but I haven’t poisoned her yet -- with mushrooms, (ceviche is kind of a different story). The only trail at Chutes was the <b>Twin Bridges Trail</b> (6km), a great
medium hike with some difficult slopes and a mushroom every three feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was the first time we ate orange boletes (Leccinum aurantiacum) and there were at least 10 different varieties of edible
mushrooms that were ripe and ready when we were there the Tuesday after
September long weekend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Now I cannot stress enough, when we pick mushrooms I have to be 100% sure the mushroom is edible before we even pick it from the ground and to do that I have to confirm it's variety in 2 different mushroom books. And then to be extra safe, I take a spore print. I'm getting better at it, but I still follow those rules. </span>Here are
some pictures of the edible mushrooms for the visual learners:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Clavariadelphus pistillaris (pestal shaped coral mushroom)<br />
The sweetest grilled mushroom of them all.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Russula Aeruginea Top<br />
Didn't eat it because -- it's green.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Orange Bolete from a different camping trip.<br />
Excellent flavour, but I wouldn't pick this one since the slugs have claimed it.</td></tr>
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Both Bev and I did go for a swim and it wasn’t the coldest
water I’ve ever been in, but if you won’t swim unless it’s 24ºC this is not the
place for you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also fun to
be taken for a ride by the current and I have, since our trip, been told people
use certain routes on the waterfall as waterslides.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wish I had of known this and gone for a death defying slide.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Beverley getting ready for a <u>cool</u> one.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Campground A sites 1 and 2.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Physically disabled fire pit -- The campground bar-b-que.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site 94 from the road.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Site 94's path to the waterfall with a waving Bev.</td></tr>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com1Chutes Provincial Park, Sables-Spanish Rivers, ON P0P, Canada46.224665 -82.07291889999999146.202693000000004 -82.11325939999999 46.246637 -82.032578399999991tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-4545176351636423482013-10-17T11:28:00.002-04:002015-07-09T14:45:55.928-04:00Rainbow Fall(s)ing Down Provincial Park<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
In trying to find something nice to say about <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/rainbowfalls" target="_blank">Rainbow Falls Provincial Park</a>, I researched and found four things I never realized about our Provincial Park system.<br />
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<b>1.</b> Did you know the Provincial Park system was created to protect loggers rights from settlers owning prime forest land in Ontario. In 1893 Algonquin was created to stop the settling of that area and now in 2013 a logging company wouldn't be able to get within 20 kilometres of the place.<br />
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<b>2.</b> There are 6 classifications for Ontario Provincial Parks; Recreational, Historical Class, Natural Environment, Nature Reserve, Waterway, and Wilderness. Now, I can play a guessing game as to what kind of park I am in or going to. I love games!<br />
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<b>3.</b> Ontario Provincial Parks cover an area of 78 000 square kilometres an area approximately the size of Nova Scotia.<br />
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<b>4.</b> Lastly, I didn't find anything <u>really</u> nice to say about Rainbow Falls.<br />
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Rainbow Falls Provincial Park is a recreational park (totally guessed it) located on Highway 17 (Trans Canada Highway) about two hours east of Thunder Bay near the town of Rossport. It is split into two separate campgrounds; Rainbow Falls Campground, where we stayed, and Rossport Campground.<br />
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Now in Rainbow Fall's defence; <b>1.</b> We only stayed for one night, <b>2.</b> This is before Bev told me to do the Blog, so I wasn't looking as closely for the fun stuff, <b>3.</b> The weather was too cool so no swimming, and <b>4. </b>I promise to not use any more numbered lists in this blog. So what did I dislike exactly you might ask? I was really disappointed when we arrived at our campsite finding it was filthy and Bev and I spent at least a half hour cleaning it of debris before we set up. To make matters worse we had come ill prepared for fishing and unsuccessfully drove through Rossport looking for bait then onto Schreiber -- all told I think we were out for an hour and a half. The capper was, after talking with a lovely elderly gentleman who had thrown back a couple of bass and a nice sized lake trout, we didn't catch a fish.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ignore the buoys and this would be a good place to swim, otherwise it's the size of an Olympic pool and not very deep. P.S. We fished straight across in those trees and caught nothing.</td></tr>
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Rainbow Falls has three realistic hikes and one hike that is a little crazy.<br />
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<b>Rainbow Falls Trail</b> (3 km) is a wooden boardwalk trail that meanders along the edge of the river to the falls and then continues on as part of the Casque Isles Hiking Trail which I'll get to in a minute. This is an easy trail because of the boardwalk and even though we didn't see a rainbow at the falls we'll take their word for it.<br />
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<b>Back 40 Trail</b> (5.6 km) is a medium to hard trail because it climbs up to a beautiful lookout of Whitesand Lake and the surrounding area. In hindsight I wish we had of done this hike and taken a look around.<br />
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<b>Superior Trail</b> (4.8 km) goes through a spruce forest to a lookout of Lake Superior -- there are so many great lookouts of Lake Superior and this one is like some of the others. Now for the crazy trail:<br />
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<b>Casque Isles Hiking Trail</b> (50 km) follows the coast from Terrace Bay to Rossport, occasional jutting in for a lookout. Now I call this crazy, but when I was growing up my family would hike a bit of the Bruce trail every year and it's 890 km, so Casque Isles hiking trail is sanity personified in hindsight. I guess if you could catch a lift back to the campsite it would be cool to do this entire trail in a couple of days.<br />
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Before you say, 'sounds <u>really</u> nice', we must look at Rainbow Falls Campground's ugly step-sister, the Rossport Campground. Located right on Lake Superior so watch out if there is wind. It has no hiking, a rocky beach, and no privacy. It's like a mom and pop campground or trailer park more than what I've come to expect from an Ontario Provincial Park. For Example;<br />
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What you can do at the Rossport Campground is fish and boat so it's not entirely bad, but in my opinion it is not good.<br />
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As with all campgrounds there are good sites and there are bad sites. The good sites by my criteria are in the Maggie Campground 31e, 38e, and 49e, in the Whitesand Campground 57, and in the Lakeside Campground 66, 69, and 70 where we stayed.<br />
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As well, there are better and worse sites at the Rossport Campground. If you are going to spend a night the better sites are 18, 19, 23, and 24.<br />
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Even though I have nothing <u>really</u> nice to say about Rainbow Falls that doesn't make it a bad campground. As I was saying to Beverley, if we had of brought worms, caught a fish, went for the Back 40 hike, and never saw the Rossport Campground I think we would have had a much different impression of this campground, but the provincial parks can't all be perfect or else what would be the point of this blog... please don't ask or answer that question.<br />
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<b>Site Cleanliness:</b> Poor. At the popular site we stayed at, there was trash all over the place. Otherwise the park was relatively clean. At the Rossport Campground all the sites looked clean.</div>
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<b>Privacy:</b> Pretty good at the site we stayed at and the other ones on the list, but everything else is either straight across from one another or too wide open. Addendum to this is both times we were at the park (one to stay, one for pictures) we were unable or unwilling to check out the Hewitson Campground. At the Rossport Campground they are all wide open, but four of the sites are less wide open than the rest.</div>
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<b>Hiking and Activities:</b> Quite excellent even though we didn't go on all of the hikes. After being to parks in this area many times every hike is worthwhile. The campground offers activities for children during the summer and the fact that you can rent canoes, waterbikes, kayaks, mountain bikes and fishing equipment to go out or around Whitesand lake is fantastic. Also we could walk right off the back of our site and fish, so all in all -- very good.. At the Rossport Campground there are no hiking trails, but if you wanted to rent a sea canoe you could go out onto Lake Superior for a great bit of exercise.</div>
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<b>Fire Pit and Amenities: </b>The fire pits were excellent, as usual, with one picnic table per site and the washrooms were acceptable . At the Rossport Campground the fire pits are all concrete squares in the ground, which I have nothing against, but without the privacy everyone at this campground may as well get together and have one big bonfire. Otherwise the amenities were acceptable.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> O.K. The south beach is nice enough, but the swimming area is small. At our site we were very close, but for many of the campers it would be quite a hike to the beach and I imagine many would drive. Now, unbeknownst to me, there is supposedly another beach on the west side of Whitesand Lake and that one I don't know anything about. At the Rossport Campground the beach quality is good, but it's the <u>north</u> shore of Lake Superior and it's very easy to get to the water, but it's the <u>north</u> shore of Lake Superior.</b><br />
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Recommended Length of Stay: </b>Now even though I said I had nothing nice to say, I would stay for five days. Fishing for two days, hiking for two days, and one day at the beach(es). Now at the Rossport Campground, unless you have a sea kayak, my answer is one night then cross the road to Rainbow Falls Campground and go for four more. </div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: </b>So here is the problem, the Rossport Campground in my opinion is #106, but the Rainbow Falls Campground deserves to be in the 80's with it's great hair and god awful music, so I have no other choice but to split the difference and put it in at <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/93_(Thelema)" target="_blank">#93</a> right beside <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108598/" target="_blank">Wallace and Gromit in the Wrong Trousers.</a><br />
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<b>The Bonus: Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park</b> (no camping) between Rainbow Falls and Thunder Bay in 140 characters not including these characters or the captions.<br />
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Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park is a natural environment park located 60 km east of Thunder Bay.<br />
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Eagle Canyon $20 entrance fee $60 zipline.<br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Rainbow Falls Provincial Park, 1004 Highway 17, Terrace Bay, ON P0T 2R0, Canada48.845536 -87.39162449999997848.803737000000005 -87.472305499999976 48.887335 -87.310943499999979tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-31998099042970828282013-10-07T09:15:00.000-04:002014-07-22T10:05:43.083-04:00Everybody loves Sandbanks Provincial ParkSandbanks, Sandbanks, Sandbanks, who loves Sandbanks? To be completely honest, and I don't want to exaggerate, but every person I have ever talked to in my life about provincial parks love this place. No exaggeration. The beach is boffo, the hikes are stunning (mostly boardwalk to protect the dunes), and you can take little trips outside the park to various wineries in Prince Edward County. It sounds too good to be true and it is. Nestled on the west coast of PEC, <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/sandbanks" target="_blank">Sandbanks Provincial Park</a> has the world's largest fresh water sand bar (nothing to do with alcohol) and dune system (nothing to do with Frank Herbert).<br />
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What is funny about Sandbanks Provincial Park is that it was unintentionally created. In the 1850's farmers cut down many up to 200 year old trees near the lake to create more grazing land for their cattle. The cattle then had free reign to eat the plants on the dunes and the dunes began to move without the plants to hold them in place. By the 1880's the western road next to the dunes needed to be moved three times. But on the environmental bright side, now Sandbanks is rated one of the best fresh water beaches in Canada, maybe even the world. Yeah Farmers!</div>
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If you go to Sandbanks you are going to swim, everything else is, in my opinion, choose your own adventure. Sandbanks has 549 campsites with 174 electrical sites. The best sites are the ones closest to the beach, (sites 6 to 18, 20, 21, 23, even numbers from 24 to 32, 33, 35, 37, 38, and 39 in Outlet A campground) but very few of these sites have any privacy. Site 39 in Outlet A Campground is the best site for privacy and access to the beach. Sandbanks is the first park that does a great job of describing their different Campgrounds on the <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/sandbanks" target="_blank">Ontario Parks website</a>. As well, Sandbanks also runs <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/english/jacques.html" target="_blank">Jacques Cottage</a> which will sleep six and <a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/english/maplerestphotos.html" target="_blank">Maple Rest Heritage House</a> filled with antiques which sleeps 8 in 4 separate bedrooms each with their own bathroom -- both of these non traditional camping options have all the amenities of home including satellite television, all you have to bring is a beach towel and all consumable items and I imagine your wallet. We stayed at site #7 back in 2011 which is:</div>
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Sandbanks offers three trails, all slightly different. It seemed to me that if one was going to stay at a good site on Campers Beach and they wanted to hike, they could do them all at one time because of how they are situated one right after another. <b>Cedar Sands Nature Trail</b> (2 km) is a nice relaxing trail in between the Cedars and Outlet campgrounds and is a good trail for the whole family to be introduced to the dunes. <br />
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Then maybe go for a swim at Outlet Beach. The next trail is the <b>Woodland Trail</b> (3.5 km) which begins at the Main Gate, then goes through the Woodlands Campground to the Dunes Day Use Area. This is a fairly flat trail through a Carolinian forest and a beautiful walk. Then while you are there you can go for a swim at the Dunes Beach Day Use Area. <b>Dunes Nature Trail</b> (2.5 km) is a duney trail with many ups and downs as you walk from dunes to marsh to forest. On this trail you really get a feeling for how dunes are formed and how massive they can become. Then why not go for a swim.<br />
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Now these are the trails that Sandbanks promotes but there is a trail to the Richardsons Campground where you might as well go for a swim at the Sandbanks Beach Day Use Area. Then there is West Point Trail (approximately 1.5 km) which doesn't necessarily show you anything new but it is still nice and then you can possibly go for a swim at the Lakeshore Lodge Day Use Area. From here you just follow the road back to the main gates and back to your site. This is a great day, but I recommend bringing a lunch or a snack because this crazy hiking swimming day could take 5 or 6 hours.<br />
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Sandbanks is a gem of the Ontario Provincial Park system with likely the best beach of them all. One beach to rule them all! With that in mind and, how everyone I've ever talked to feels about the place, my number may seem a little high but remember all these number are subject to change.</div>
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<b>Site Cleanliness:</b> Great. All the sites were immaculate, but then again the sand could have covered all the garbage.</div>
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<b>Privacy:</b> There are private sites like #74, but it is not close to the water. Whereas anything near the water is not private so one must choose what is more important. A Kobayashi Maru for sure.</div>
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<b>Hiking and Activities:</b> I think the hiking was great and if you don't want to do all the hikes at once you could do one a day. There is fishing, swimming, park organized activities, and right outside the park -- wineries</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> The best beach in Canada. See <u>Privacy</u> for answer to the second part of the question -- although to note it would have been easy to get to the beach from all the campsites.</b></div>
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<b>Recommended Length of Stay: </b>This is a new category I thought I should add after the most recent trip. Some Provincial Parks just need a weekend and some a lifetime and a good length for Sandbanks is 5 days. I would choose a week during the dog days of summer and leave the weekends for the turkeys.</div>
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com1Sandbanks Provincial Park, Prince Edward, ON K0K 2T0, Canada43.907246099999988 -77.26040840000001743.815740599999991 -77.421769900000015 43.998751599999984 -77.099046900000019tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7523941858805661798.post-43705873736339323662013-08-24T09:30:00.000-04:002015-07-09T14:46:31.241-04:00Turkey Point Provincial Park is a Turkey<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Not all parks are what Beverley and I like. I wouldn't say that we're <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ebenezer_Scrooge" target="_blank">Ebenezer</a>'s or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6dXmsR4_VQ" target="_blank">Murtaugh</a>'s yet -- but we are definitely getting there. For example, we're not really into party camping where late teens, early twenties get together at a camp site to drink, play loud music, and eventually fall down to sleep. In my day that was called a "bush party", where one would drink all night dancing around a fire until somebody finally fell into it and was engulfed in flames crying "Why me?" but that's the way it was and you liked it, you loved it! (and for anyone not my age that is a Dana Carvey SNL reference) Oh, and you didn't have to pay for a camp site to do it, but every once and a while the police would come and break it up.<br />
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"Hey, Stop that bush partying!" Howie Fidler</div>
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<a href="http://www.ontarioparks.com/park/turkeypoint" target="_blank">Turkey Point Provincial Park</a> is located near Lake Erie about an hour and a half south west of Hamilton. There are 235 campsites in total with 124 electrical sites. Turkey Point is the only Provincial Park with it's own golf course and if you show them your pink permit for camping your golf club rental is free (bring some balls though). It only costs $16 (weekdays) or $17 (Weekends and Holidays) to golf a 9 hole golf course. Beverley doesn't golf normally and we didn't even know there was a golf course at Turkey Point Provincial Park until we got home, which is a good lesson for all the campers out there. Read the program! I still don't think we would have gone, but at least I would have known.<br />
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Now here is the rub. The beach for the campsite is about 2-3 kilometres away from the park. So by car it takes you about 10 minutes to go from your site to the beach (which is cool, but not if you are going to be drinking), about 40 minutes to walk by a trail/roadway, or 30 minutes walking on the highway. Your best mode of transport would be a bike, I'm sure it's only 10 minutes and even though it's a bit uphill on the way back, it would be worth it. We did swim a couple of times and the beach is great and the water is warm, but I just wish there was a trail from the campground to the beach since they do have property all the way to the water. Maybe in future.<br />
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As far as hiking goes I think Turkey Point thinks you'll get enough exercise going back and forth to the beach because there is three trails but all together they would take a relatively healthy person as long as it would take to get to the beach and back -- Once. The Oak Savannah Trail (1km) -- prescribed burning of conifers in an attempt to recover an oak savannah forest. I found this one cool, but it was really short and didn't have any more information than what was given in the guide.<br />
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The Lookout Bluff Trail (2.2 km) -- takes you on a trip through the history of the forest to a lookout over Lake Erie and the Long Point Peninsula. I found some pretty cool mushrooms on this hike, but still can't get over how they could just put a staircase at the midpoint of this trail to get to the beach.<br />
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Lastly the Fin and Feather trail (2 km) is a walk to the Normandale fish culture station which would be cool if my parents didn't live within a mile of a fish culture station near Chatsworth Ontario.<br />
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Turkey Point is built in a Oak Savannah forest so privacy isn't easy -- that being said sites 18, 23, and 47 in Walking Stick Woods Campground, 214, 226, and 235 in Fin and Feather Campground, and 117, 118, 122, 166, 172, 174, and 175 in Whippoorwill Campground are the best sites.<br />
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Whenever you are camping it is what you make it and, by that token, we made the best of Turkey Point swimming, hiking and just being together.<br />
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<b>Site Cleanliness:</b> O.K. Took some time to clean up from previous campers.</div>
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<b>Privacy:</b> Difficult to find. The numbers I have highlighted are good but everything else is not.</div>
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<b>Hiking and Activities:</b> Good. There is a three decent trails and a good walk to the beach (Man I wish I could let it go already).</div>
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<b>Fire Pit and Amenities: </b>Excellent. All the fire pits are great, a picnic table or two for all the sites, and the comfort stations are excellent.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Beach Quality or Ease of Getting to the Water:</b> </b>Sucks. But the beach is amazing.</div>
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<b style="font-weight: normal;"><b>Overall Impression:</b> It is what you make of it. I want to be clear that there is no such thing as a bad provincial park. If you like golf it would be great. If you bring bicycles it would be great. If you are a partying youth it's awesome. For us we won't be back.</b></div>
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<b style="font-weight: bold;">Rating out of 107: </b>So this is the first one that is not going near the top so again it's difficult. I'm giving it #101 for the 101 proof Wild Turkey which is a blend of 6, 7, and 8 year old bourbons with an explosion of vanilla and caramel and hints of orange and honey.<br />
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Robert C Fidlerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02844588600733264848noreply@blogger.com0Turkey Point Provincial Park, Saint Williams, ON N0E 1P0, Canada42.7003978 -80.32966640000000842.6537138 -80.4103474 42.7470818 -80.248985400000009