Thursday 29 April 2010

Annual camping trip- Bon Echo Provincial Park

Each year since I started University a group of friends from Guelph go car camping in one of the provincial parks in Ontario. This year we chose Bon Echo as our location and embarked on the 4 hour drive to get there. 
We had a nice adventure where Cory broke the key to Sulara's car by trying to untie the rope that we used to put the canoe on the roof. Needless to say we got there eventually and there was a lot of exploring to be done. There were a lot of drawings on the cliff but we had to canoe to go see them.  We piled way more people than should ever fit into a canoe and crossed the very calm yet dreadfully chilly waters.
We docked across the lake and there was a pretty long hike up the cliff through the bush.
 Some people had to take many breaks and got very tired as we climbed the cliff. Others still had more energy when we got to the top...
The view was amazing. This is one cliff dive I'd rather not take though.
 Sulara didn't particularly have the energy for it and didn't get to enjoy the view much. I think he took a nap until people stole is shoes.
Spring flowers reach out of the newly defrosted ground
There was a lot of nice spring flowers coming out in the forests.

Then there was drinking at night... and falling asleep in canoes like all good Canadians (notice Sulara isn't asleep because he was napping on the cliff).