As predicted, it was raining Monday morning when we set out to drive back to TO. We would have planned another walk, except there was little chance that the weather would change, so we just hunkered down and accepted “the wrath of God.” Anyway the plan was to have coffee and a muffin at the […]
This oh no! moment came after lunch. There are these times in life, when we seem to move from the tediously mundane to the very cliff edge of existence in just a few minutes (OK, maybe half an hour). Let’s begin with the mundane, lunch. It was difficult to find a decent sandwich shop in
Finally a day of almost complete sun. After breakfast at Craigies in Tobermory, we drove to the Fathom V National park, paid our entrance fee – less than $15.00 – sorry I can’t remember it exactly – sun fever no doubt 🙂 and began our walk. Here you have a choice of trails to take
I can’t say Tobermory without thinking of the character, Uncle Tobermory, from the Wombats of Wimbledon, but that’s an aside. Tobermory at the end of the Bruce Peninsula, where the ferry leaves for Manitoulin Island, is a very popular spot. Its main recreational activity seems to be underwater diving. We saw several groups of divers
In Lion’s Head, on the Bruce Trail, we stayed at a lovely B&B called “The Cat’s Pajamas.” Located in a delightful old house and maintained by a wonderful hostess, who fed and entertained us, The Cat’s Pajamas is one of several B&Bs in the area, listed on the B&B network. Lion’s Head also has a
I promised that I would let people know when were going to do some hiking on the Bruce Trail, so that you would have a head’s up about the weather. Sorry I forgot. You see, we seem to attract rain!! Whenever we have planned a holiday or a few days away this year, it has
We went out yesterday to establish a baseline for how far and/or how long we could walk in fairly rugged terrain, before we do some extended hiking on the Bruce Trail. We did this with the biking, before we cycled Le P’tit Train du Nord in June, however we were a little casual about our
I didn’t post about it at the time, however, I did learn a lot by being away from the city and all its amenities. (I may have learned a lot of these lessons before as a Girl Guide, but I’d forgotten many.) By accident or by design (not mine) I learned that…. 1. You can
It’s an ill wind that blows in cold and rain for July. Sigh! Well, we packed the ponchos that we wore in June for the bike trip. We may have to use them in the kayaks this week. Did I say that we were planning a few days hiking on the Bruce Trail in August,
We are planning to go away for a few days to a cottage near Algonquin Park. My husband is still using up holiday time and this trip will use up four days. I never thought that I would find taking holidays a chore, however, having one a month for the last four months or so
