October in the Kawartha Highlands

[tear_knee]

We were blessed with perfect weather of driving rain and 5C temperatures as we set out, but after all was said and done we had a great first time in Kawartha Highlands Provincial Park a few weekends ago. Hope you enjoy the report!

 

[GRS Riverrider]

Well written and great photography. ...I'd say yellow.

 

[Robin]

Nice report I agree with GSR, and a fun read.

I get it now, Happy Adventurer is your canoe...duh, I was trying to find what tree you where hiding behind, ya know, I picked up the lap top and got real close trying to find hints...what an old fool I am. HaHa, Thanks for sharing your nice trip.

 

[tear_knee]

GRS Riverrider ding ding ding! You win. I'll have to think of a prize.

Robin haha yeah! The Happy Adventure is our canoe. She's named after Farley Mowat's Boat Who Wouldn't Float and thankfully has not lived up to her namesake.

 

[Odyssey]

Just goes to show that the sun will come out eventually, even in October. Well, some of the time. But when it does it's glorious!
Nice trip report tear-knee.
Of all the trips we've taken over the years, it's never rained on the take out and drive home. What's the deal with that eh?

ps I forgot about the HAIL this summer. Still pretending it didn't happen.

 

[tear_knee]

Of all the trips we've taken over the years, it's never rained on the take out and drive home. What's the deal with that eh?

ps I forgot about the HAIL this summer. Still pretending it didn't happen.

Yeah, how does that happen?!
We luckily weren't out when the hailstorm hit this summer, but we did have the canoe on the roof of our car in preparation for a trip. I was worried it would get dented but she weathered the storm just fine.

 

[snapper]

Thanks for the wonderful photos and trip report. Can't beat the autumn colors when out paddling. Looks like a lot of fun.

That's all for now. Take care and until next time...be well.

snapper

 

[clemency]

Thanks. Good read, lovely photos.

 

[Rippy]

Great TR tear-knee. Looks like a great time to me. It's funny how good trips get even better with time.

 

[sweeper]

I think the photo of a delicious Adult Hot Beverage next to our candle lantern is a cool photo

 

[tear_knee]

Thanks for the kind words, everyone.
sweeper hahaha I was like, "hmm, maybe I'll artfully arrange this birchbark and shine the headlamp that way and.." It was very contrived and still goofy. But thank you. It looked cooler while I was taking it, which was under the influence of red wine and rum with animal fat

 

[sweeper]

I think I had a few shots that didn't quite come out the way I planed them.

 

[tump_lion]

love this area -- great report!! paddled it a lot in the 80s and 90's when it was crown land 'the north kawartha canoe area' or some map name like that -- my camp is about 15 miles south/east from there a little south of apsley -- so the land-between topography feels like home

 

[tear_knee]

tump_lion it was our first time in the area, and we loved it, too! Lovely little cottages around there. My canoe/life partner's family has had a home on lake Rosseau in Muskoka for about a hundred years (one of the last remaining houses that isn't a hockey player's mansion) and the landscape felt pretty similar to me, but with much less awful expensive landscaping and fewer tennis courts. Must be lovely to have a camp there. We will definitely be going back.
Is there still a bunch of crown land up there? I know half of Wolf Lake is crown land, but that's all I know.