Presqu'ile Provincial Park

The weekend after the Canada Day Long Weekend my wife and I went camping at Presqu'ile Provincial Park. We had never been to this park before and it is about a three hour drive from our home in Ottawa. However, one of our goals this summer is to go to new provincial parks, and this was one of them. We stayed just one night at site 177 in the Craig's area of the campground.

Once we got to the park we discovered that there were still people on the site we had reserved but they explained that they had another site booked and the people had just left that one so they would be quick moving their stuff over to their new site. We opted to go for a hike instead of just waiting around. We went to the Marsh Boardwalk which was a 1.3km trail which consisted mainly of the boardwalk but also two observation towers and a bit through a cedar forest.

Once we finished the hike we headed back to set up camp. This didn't take much time at all to do considering it consisted of setting up a tent and a bug shelter. We rested a bit on the site before heading to the park store to get some more wood and then drove down to the lighthouse at the point. It was an interesting lighthouse, but you couldn't go up it. After that we continued down the one way road to the hiking trail at Jobe's Woods. This was a 1.4km loop in the oldest forest in the park. Some of the trees on this loop were quite large and impressive. We did see a deer as well but it ran off before I could get a photo.

Once we were done with the hike we headed back to camp to read our books and start the fire. For dinner we had hotdogs and baked potatoes on the fire.

The next day after we packed up we headed down to Owen's Point Trail which was a 2km loop that leads to a series of lookouts onto Lake Ontario. In the spring and fall large numbers of shore birds rest on the beach here. However, it was July when we went so we only saw some seagulls and Canada Geese.

Overall, it was a very pleasant weekend camping trip even if the drive was a bit long. On our way home we took the 1000 Islands Parkway which was quite a pleasant drive and a good break from the 401.

Marsh Boardwalk

Iris

Mute Swans

Song Sparrow

Eastern Comma

Site 177

Old Lightkeepers House

Light House

Top of the Light House

Park Road in the Woods

Little Wood Satyr

American Redstart

Northern Cloudywing

Gull Island

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