What an incredible campsite. No electricity and you have to walk in (can’t drive your car in) but the view more than makes up for it. It was a bit tricky to fill up our airbed, because it doesn’t fit through the tent door. So, we put the airbed in the tent...then we blew up the airbed at the car...then we carried the tent with the airbed in it to the camping spot. It probably looked ridiculous, but it was worth it!
Our first hike was Granite Ridge. Something we read told us the view from there inspired Carmichael’s La Cloche Panorama. Well, we didn’t find the exact spot of inspiration but we did find a couple really cool old cars and we saw a bear. The 1940 Dodge is the remains of one of the first cars that came here in the 60’s—the 1931 Chevy drove here over on the ice in 1955. And the bear...well I’m not an expert on bears, but this bear was really bookin’ it! He came right across our path about 55 metres away. I was terrified, but he wasn’t even looking at us, he was just running as fast as he could. Now, I’m just excited I saw him (I don’t actually know if it was a him but he was very big). Back to the Group of Seven. Although we didn’t find the exact spot as the panorama sketch we can see the characteristics of the La Cloche hills painting from our campsite view. The little lakes running into each other—the white hills, next to the red, next to the dark—the rocks reaching out into the water—the golds and the green. Beautiful. We are trying to stay dry and warm. You Are Always in my Prayers. Love Mom.
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Sandi Martin
9/28/2020 12:19:46 pm
Your adventures really inspire me! You have had wonderful weather for this trip. The bear I am glad it was you and not me! Terrifying!
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Diane
9/29/2020 05:27:39 am
We weren’t too inspiring last night when we thought there was a bear outside our tent and it turned out to be a racoon😄
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Hunter
9/28/2020 12:21:26 pm
Hunter is wondering if you've come across other four legged animals besides bears on this trip? (i.e. coyotes, wolves) Are you ever worried for your safety?
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Ray
9/29/2020 05:33:02 am
At Neys Provincial Park we saw a lynx bound across the trail. We had raccoons visit our campsite last night. That did me a scare since I could just hear them outside and my first thought was “bear”.
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Taylor
9/28/2020 12:22:56 pm
Taylor is wondering how cold it has been getting? What do you sleep in? (all your clothes? sleeping bag?)
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Diane
9/29/2020 05:33:12 am
We have had a huge difference in temperatures. In Neys it was below zero so although our sleeping bag is warm we slept with our toques on so our heads were warm. Here it is a lot warmer so we worn our pj’s but it is damp so I wore a down vest over them (also we have no little heater here because there is no electricity).
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Ty
9/28/2020 12:23:52 pm
Ty is wondering if there was anything in the abandoned car? Were you able to get into it?
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Ray
9/29/2020 05:37:46 am
We did not go inside but it was just the body and frame left. It is amazing to think of it driving over the ice from Manitoulin island. Another amazing story was that the boys from Killarney would skate the 27 miles across the ice to Little Current play a game of hockey and then skate home on the same day.
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Lane M.
9/28/2020 12:25:20 pm
Lane is wondering how long it took you to walk to your campsite?
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Diane
9/29/2020 05:29:39 am
Our campsite is at the end of a road that they have blocked off with big boulders. It is not too far in from there but you have to do a lot of back and forth to get all your stuff.
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