A Cottage Weekend
For countless Canadian city dwellers, a few days in cottage country is the quintessential summer pasttime. Every weekend from May to September, there is a mass exodus from city to […]
For countless Canadian city dwellers, a few days in cottage country is the quintessential summer pasttime. Every weekend from May to September, there is a mass exodus from city to […]
Prince Edward County is one of my favorite places in Ontario. Only two hours drive from Toronto and just south of Belleville, it is an ideal destination for a daytrip […]
Home to more than 100 large and small waterfalls, Hamilton proclaims itself to be the “Waterfall Capital of the World“. Well, this claim cannot go unverified! So a couple of […]
Killarney Harbour On the last day of our camping weekend, we stopped at the small municipality of Killarney which is about 10 km west of the park entrance. This sleepy […]
Hiking “The Crack” In addition to its shorter hikes, Killarney is also known for “The Crack” trail which is a 3.5-kilometer linear hike up a white quarzite rock cliff. The […]
Killarney Provincial Park is renowned for its natural beauty, unspoiled wilderness and considered by many to be one of the crown jewels of the Ontario park system (together with the […]
A short weekend hike, this time at the Dundas Valley Conservation Area near Hamilton in southwest Ontario, about an hour drive from Toronto. This glacial valley is part of the […]
Algonquin Park in Southern Ontario is Canada’s oldest provincial park, and is also a National Historic Site. It’s readily accessible from Toronto (about a 3 hour drive) and quite popular […]