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Hunting Camp 2023

My yearly trip up to my family's "Hunt Camp" was last weekend. It was a great time seeing the family and seeing the beautiful landscape that it sits on.  Main Lake at the Camp Reflections in the Lake Reflations on the other side of the lake A scenic lookout on the way home Rockingham Church on the way home  

Hunting Camp: Mushrooms

This is part 4 of the Hunting Camp series and will also be the final post in this series as well. The theme for this post as the title suggests is mushrooms. When I went up to the Hunting Camp it seemed to be the perfect conditions for mushrooms to appear as there were tons. I want to apologize because unfortunately identifying mushrooms is not my strong suit and therefore I know none of the names of the mushrooms in the following pictures. There isn't much of a story behind these picutures other than I took them all on an ATV trail by the Hunting Camp. Other than describing each picuture to you I'll just let you look. Thanks for reading the Hunting Camp series, I'm not sure when I will be posting next but hopefully it will be soon.

Hunting Camp: Day 1

This is part one out of a three-part series I'm doing. Every year my moms side of the family goes up to what we call the Hunting Camp. No one actually hunts up there but in the past people did. The history of this camp goes back to my Granda who was one of four original owners of the Hunting Camp. The Hunting Camp is now owned by my uncle and each of the other three oldest sons of the original members. The reason we go up to the camp every year is to honour and remember my Granda and Grandma.  The reason this is a three-part series is just that even though I was there for about 24 hours I took so many pictures I can't fit them all into one blog post.  The first picture is taken from the dock overlooking the main lake that the camp is based on. This lake is the last of three lakes just Southeast of Algonquin Provincial Park. The second picture is showing the passage that connects the main lake to the one above it, which is just a bit of marshy area. The third picture is of...