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Camping on Beausoleil Island

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Notes for next time:

  • Don’t take 14′ boat through The Gap in high winds
  • Don’t camp near rattlesnakes
  • Find out if there is such a thing as “snake bells”
  • Don’t camp near poison ivy
  • Buy tall hiking socks
  • Don’t let Abbey jump onto the dock without a life jacket
  • Don’t haul Abbey out of the water by the leash when she is underwater, under the dock
  • Bring towels / blankies for the dogs
  • Get thicker sleeping pads
  • Get a solar charger
  • Get print charts (and laminate them)
  • Don’t wear black pants near mosquitoes
  • If {packing art supplies}, then {include sketchbook}
  • Remember to pack: watershoes, fleece pants, fleece jacket, gaiters
  • Grocery wish list: veggie dogs, tortillas & PB, cookies, additional beer
  • Definitely camp at the Chimney Bay or Oaks campground again!

View map of the island campsites here.

*Map updated August 2nd*

A map of old-growth forests I want to visit

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Recently I’ve been fascinated by the book Ontario’s Old-Growth Forests: A Guidebook Complete with History, Ecology and Maps by Michael Henry and Peter Quinby. I think Eric is getting tired of my mini “lectures” about tree species every morning at breakfast (and every other chance I get). Anyway, here’s my list of some of the forests I want to visit, with any luck, starting this summer:


View Old Growth Forests in a larger map

A more complete map of all the forests covered in the book is available at:
http://www.oldgrowth.ca/

Tracking Abbey

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I was creeped out when Eric bought a GPS watch this week– I simply find tracking, and especially the sharing of gathered info with third parties, just plain disturbing. But I managed to find a fun use for the watch anyway: we strapped it to Abbey and mapped her off-leash route around the park. That might throw off the CIA or whoever else is aggregating GPS watch data…

Anyway, you can watch Abbey’s path in this video:

And view Abbey’s pace and speed statistics:

Abbey’s pace
Abbey’s speed



Stay tuned for a comparison with Sage later this week.