OUR GREAT ALGONQUIN ADVENTURE

Dan and I have just returned from an amazing camping trip to Algonquin Park.  We spent nine days and eight nights at Mew Lake - hiking, canoeing, swimming and eating (sooo much eating).  It was very cold (second night it went down to 4 degrees Celcius) but we had a fabulous time anyway.  The park is absolutely beautiful and even though most of the park is only accessible by canoe, they have these wonderful campsites with comfort stations (flush toilets, showers, heat - my sister is cringing right now).

Here are a few pictures of our excursions (including Virginia and Cheryl who spent the last four days with us - yay, entertaining in the woods).

Not very clear but here are Dan and I at post 9, where we stopped for lunch, on the Mizzy Lake Trail, the longest trail of the Highway 60 corridor - 11km.  It took us 7 hours and ten minutes before we finished the trail we were passed by a German family that hadn't even yet broken a sweat.

Virginia and Cheryl playing house at our campsite.  We were all so excitied about our camping stuff that we wound up with two of everything on the picnic table - two stoves, two lanterns...

Dan and I canoeing on Canoe Lake, where Tom Thomson was found drowned.  We had taken an ORCA canoeing course a couple of days before - and we rocked in that canoe.  We canoed out to Tom Thomson's cairn and took the picture that will wind up on the back cover of Dan's play when it gets published and he becomes rich and famous.

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