Wow, how time does fly when you have leisure time! Scrambling on Thursday night (July 4th) to get ready, we left around 10:30PM and headed for Markham to stay overnight in Martin’s dad’s driveway and have breakfast with him at Cora’s in the morning. Then the adventure began. We headed straight to Algonquin Park stopping only for a well deserved ice cream at Kawartha Dairy in Minden. We were lucky and got a great spot in the Lake of Two Rivers campground, about half way though the park on Hwy 60. Four glorious days of relaxation, sleeping, swimming, kayaking, eating, reading, knitting and did we mention, sleeping.

On two of the evenings we drove a short distance to the Visitor’s Centre and listened to two presentations – one on the life of loons (did you know they can hardly walk because their legs are near the tail end of their bodies, they can live 20+ years and a family of four can eat 900lbs of fish in one season!). The second presentation was on the life and mysterious death of Tom Thompson. There are a lot of myths and questions remaining on what happened to him and where his body is actually buried. We went to bed that last night feeling a little sad to be leaving this wonderful campground and Algonquin Park, but adventure awaits!