For our summer holidays, my wife and I rented a cottage for a week in the Charlevoix region of Quebec. Our cottage was right by Cap-aux-Oies, in fact we could walk down to the public beach from our cottage. During our trip we made two day trips down to Baie-Saint-Paul. One in the rain the first day, where we stopped in for lunch/brunch and the second a few days later when it was nicer out to explore the beach and their main drag which is quiet pretty and full of art galleries. We also went whale watching as we were only an hour away from Baie-Sainte-Catherine which is situated in the Saguenay–St. Lawrence Marine Park. This marine park is renowned for its whale watching. During our whale watching tour, we spotted a Harbour Porpoise, Beluga and Minke whale. During another day trip, we took the free ferry over to Isle-aux-Coudres. We had a very nice lunch once we got on the island. From the patio, we were sitting on we could see more Beluga whales swimming by. After...
Six Days Alone in Algonquin: Canoe Lake to White Trout and Back My first back country canoe trip of 2025 was to what is normally the busiest part of Algonquin. I left on May 4th from Canoe Lake and returned on May 9th to Canoe Lake. In between, I stayed on Rainbow, McIntosh, Misty, White Trout, and Sunbeam Lakes, each for one night. The total distance for the trip was 99.07 km, as recorded on Strava. The way I recorded my days on Strava didn’t differentiate between paddling and portaging, but I did roughly 36.03 km of portaging. I double-carried each portage, so I did each portage length three times. Waterfall between Timberwolf and Misty Lake Day One – Canoe Lake to Rainbow Lake: 12.18 km, 4 hours 17 minutes I recently got a new car this winter -a Chevy Equinox EV. Since this was my first time traveling with a canoe on the EV, I was interested to see how much it would affect my range. I left Ottawa at 98% and got to Bancroft with around 30%. From there, I charged ...