This was our first experience at winter camping! Well, maybe we cheated a little. Pulling our truck up to a heated octagonal, heated tent on a wooden platform with bunk beds is probably not exactly winter camping. We did have to consider the fact that our daughter was only 9 months old! We drove up …
Outdoor Adventure
“Let freedom ring from the mountain tops…” was part of the speech made by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Washington, D.C. fifty years ago now. I had just returned from our annual canoe trip in Killarney Provincial Park and was driving home from work one day. I heard on the radio that it was …
When does a boy become a man? After a few canoe trips? When society says he is old enough to drive or old enough to drink? I’ve heard many answers to this questions, but the most common one is “I’m not sure!” The summer canoe trip is an annual event in our family. With great …
I have always exposed my kids to the great outdoors since… well, since the chord was cut. We played in the streams that flowed over the Niagara Escarpment, swam in the frigid waters of western Georgian Bay and the warmer waters of Lake Huron, canoed in the local town river (pictured below), snowshoed in the …
There is nothing quite like the experience of wilderness camping. To fully enjoy this kind of adventure you must: leave behind all that is not essential, enjoy your own company, abandon looking perfect, cooperate with your fellow travellers and have a healthy appreciation for God’s creation. In wilderness, you will discover who you are – …
Here are a few more pictures to inspire you to get out in the canoe and take off!
These images were taken on a trip, my wife and I made, in the summer of 2010. We had a shoreline camp site at Agawa Bay, Lake Superior Provincial Park. The waves at our beach site subsided enough, one morning, to take the kayaks out and explore. Another day, we found a small sheltered bay (part …
The rock face along the shore of Little Sheguaindah Lake (Killarney Provincial Park) is a painter’s and photographer’s ‘happy place’. During a canoe trip with my sons, we climbed the short rock portage out of George Lake into Little Sheguaindah Lake and spent the afternoon exploring this small lake. These three images were made in …