Great weather today for a paddle around the Brockville islands. For October 12 the water was warm enough to go for a swim. Felt like a summers day.
Category: Outdoors
Outdoor adventures include kayaking, canoeing, hiking, backpacking, and camping.
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Brockville Islands
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Interprovincial Zip Line
August 22
Seven club members braved the heat to take a trip on the Interprovincial zip line between Ontario and Quebec.
For $45 you get a 40 second ride across the Ottawa river. This is a just gotta do it type of trip. Take the ride at https://interzip.ca/en -
Windmill Point, L’île Perrot
The park is located in Ile Perrot and has kayaks, paddle boards, and canoes for rent or you can launch your own boat.
Here is the what3words location https://w3w.co/cube.thunder.paddockPaddling today was Drew, Natalie, Evelyn, Susan, and myself.
We paddled south towards Sainte Anne de Bellevue heading towards Dowker Island. The water was very calm with little wind to help cut the high heat. We paddled approximately 9 kilometres.
We followed that up with a quick bite at Patate & Persil located at 9 Av. Saint-Charles, Vaudreuil-Dorion, QC J7V 2K3
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Manotick to Ottawa
Sunday, August 15
Early morning of the last day 
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Merrickville
Arrived Wednesday evening
In the locks at Smith Falls with 13 canoes of army soldiers celebrating 150 of their regiment by paddling 150Km on our way to Merrickville
Leaving Thursday morning for our shortest paddle 10Km but probably our wettest. Stuck at the locks for a couple of hours due to repair work.
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Rideau River
Day 1
Started off at 6 am to meet up with Heather for the drive to Kingston.
Due to house builders causing Martin problems he has had to drop out.
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Casques Iles Hike
The Casques Îles hike is a 53km hike from Rossport, Ontario to Terrence Bay, Ontario
The trail Day 1 – Rossport to Rainbow Fall Provincial Park
After driving from Sault Sainte Marie I arrived in Rossport around 2 in the afternoon. I checked that I had everything I needed for the hike, loaded up my pack at 23lbs, and headed out at about 2:20. The trail is relatively easy to follow with a few overgrown areas that you just have to watch out for. The trail starts out flat and I manges to maintain 3k/hr for the first couple of hours. The terrain then changed to a more rocky trail with lots of ups and downs to lookouts and streams. No sign of bears except for a big pile of bear scat right in the middle of the trail. That was the only sign of wildlife I saw. After seven hours of hiking I reached Rainbow Falls just in time to get a campsite before they closed. Setup my tent, grabbed a quick meal, had a shower, and collapsed into bed know I needed an early start for another 15km the next day.
Day 1 Day 2 – Rainbow Falls to Schreiber Beach
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Killarney Adventure
Follow the adventures of Cindy, Jo-Ann, Lawrence, and Miles as we explore the beautiful Killarney Provincial Park in Ontario.
The reservations are made. Plans are set. Lift-off is Saturday with a 5.5-hour drive to our first stop Restoule Provincial Park.
All packed and ready to leave 
Wait at rest stop near Chaulk River for Jo-Ann, Cindy, and Lawrence 
Convoy 
Setting up camp for one night at Restoule Restoule Provincial Park was our first stop on our Killarney adventure. Here we went through everyone’s bag to double check we weren’t carrying extra gear on the upcoming portages.
Beach at Restoule 
First fire of the week Killarney Day One
With a quick pack up we left Restoule by 7 am to make sure we got to George Lake Killarney for our 11 am water taxi to Baie Fine. After a little scare with one of the cars running low on fuel we managed to find a gas station with about 8 km left in the tank. Clear driving from there to George Lake.
Arrived at George Lake 10 am After checking in at the park office it was off to Killarney Outfitters to see about the water taxi and rental canoes.
After confirming our canoes and water taxi we drove into the town of Killarney to the marina to load up the water taxi.
Almost packed and ready to go. Our captain for the water taxi to Baie Fine was Ted East, owner of Killarney Outfitters, who has been a supporter of the Killarney area since 1964. He can be seen in the video about paddle in Killay. https://youtu.be/-AmR6qRbP6Q
Our first campsite at Baie Fine in an area called The Pool
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1000 Islands – Gananoque, Ontario
The club couldn’t have picked a better day to go back to 1000 Islands. Launching from the kayak boat launch located next to Joel Stone Heritage Park https://w3w.co/upshot.eardrum.landmarks we paddled to the shipwreck, Halfmoon Bay, and a large Osprey nest. Taking a break for lunch to eat and swim.
Followed by a small bonfire
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French River 2020
Last year’s trip to French River https://photos.app.goo.gl/weoSJMNEJMGD5Uu98
All photos here
