We drove up on the Thursday night and got there rather late, Aleksy and Warren pitched the tents and we had some Smores. Man. I love smores (I also might have just made one in the microwave because I'm addicted).
The next morning, we started our fire as usual, and cooked up some breakfast: Hotdogs, and eggs. How wholesome. There were A LOT of hotdogs consumed during this camping weekend!
See that little red thing in the middle of those normal camping chairs? That would be Warren's camping chair. It seems everything that Warren has for camping is compact. For portaging: that's our next step!
Here's Breakfast! Sometimes when camping you must improvise... we had no plates so we just put our eggs right on our hotdogs.. what a masterpiece! So darn good we had it twice!!! Should I be more embarrassed my our lack of classiness?
On the next morning after arriving, we drove about an hour from Sauble Falls to Tobermory to do a hike through the Bruce Peninsula. I wasn't expecting too much from the hike, afterall it was only a month ago I was hiking the Blue Mountains in Australia, but Tobermory absolutely WOWed me!! This picture shows the clear blue water and the rock beach beautifully.... absolutely amazing!!
It was not only the scenery that impressed me: the hike itself was much more strenuous then I expected. I though a good ol northern Ontario hike: walking over roots, maybe a few rocks... but no.... I was climbing rocks like these!!! Even worked a bit of a sweat up... an awesome hike indeed... so awesome that we got to a point that we couldn't go any further because we had to pass the dog to one another (yup Piper hiked too).
This is the mini cliff that defeated us. We got up to the point where Aleksy is (passing the dog up of course) but from there, we couldn't get any further! It was probably about 12 feet up and the only way up was by a tree that hung alongside the mini cliff. Nope... this is where we turned back...
The next day, Saturday our Browns arrived (Paul and Andzelika Brown!). Played a little 'never have i ever'/'i have and i hope you have to' and had some drinks and a campfire (did i mention I love smores??).
Piper's a pro camper... he gets all comfy...
The next day the Browns and us headed over to check out the falls (which were right beside our campsite!). Paul and Warren had to climb down some rocks to get this goody in the middle of the falls!
The last time Aleksy and I went to Sauble Falls (about 4 years ago), the water level was a lot lower than it was this year. Here's picture number 2 of us with the falls (the other is from 2007 and is actually a better picture because no one was around and it was greener!).
After visiting the falls, we headed over to the beach. It was cloudy and looked like it was about to rain when we left for the beach, but as we arrived it cleared up (just for us...). The beach was super busy on this Saturday!!! I guess long weekends are always like that, but man!! SO many people! Our spot was so close to our neighbours that it was like we were tanning with them!
Its so nice to finally have long weekends and get to enjoy them! My weekend jobs have always prevented me from going away on long weekends like this, so it was really nice for a change! Well, I did work at the group home on this weekend, but it was just a little 4 to 12 on the Sunday...
Chelsea is super jealous. I miss hanging around a camp fire with you guys, and making smores and laughing at Paul for sleeping in the car. Such good times. Less than 2 months til I get to play with you guys again!!
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