According to Ducks Unlimited many female ducks of different kinds will pretend to have an injury such as a broken wing if they are trying to draw you or a predator away from their babies. We live on a lake, and have many mallards around us, but we had never seen this happen until last […]
This past week, we spent a few days at Presqu’ile Provincial Park. I’ll post photos from our time there in the next few weeks. One of the highlights for us was watching a mother raccoon trying to move her kit to another place. All of the photos were taken with my long lens (600 mm) […]
I missed putting these up last fall – so thought I would post it now.
We finished our camping trip this year by going into Algonquin Park and staying at Pog Lake Provincial Park. It is a beautiful park, and it is possible to go on the old railway bike trail that goes through Algonquin. We covered around 32 km on our bikes the day we took our trip.
We spent a few nights at Six Mile Lake Provincial Park and enjoyed our time there. We were able to take our kayaks out on the lake and do some fishing. You can borrow fishing rods and buy worms for your time out on the water. I caught 8 small fish compared to Neil catching […]
We enjoyed our visit to Oastler Lake Provincial Park. This is the spot where we had our campsite. We’ve been to the Park before, and were glad to be back there. I liked hearing the train go by as it brought back memories of hearing the trains when I was young. We took our bikes […]
We recently visited several provincial parks in Central Ontario. Each of the parks had its own beauty. We enjoyed the scenery at McRae Point. We were able to take our bikes on back roads in the area. Lots of nice country around there. One night the water was quite calm, so we were able to […]