The Crack is Killarney’s premier hiking trail, showcasing the area’s 1.8 billion year old La Cloche Mountain Range of white quartzite and offers an amazing view of the inland lakes. The mountains are believed to have once been higher than today’s Rocky Mountains and were eroded down to their current altitude. In the fall, when the…
The Chikanishing Trail Chikanishing Trail is a lovely hike that provides you with beautiful high views over Chikanishing Creek, Georgian Bay, several small local islands and the gorgeous granite shoreline. It is a three kilometre hike that meanders across rock ridges all the way out to the bay. We had planned our trip to Kilarney…
The Old Baldy Trail is a 4.3 kilometre out and back trail located near the Village of Kimberley with some spectacular scenic views. Getting there, however, requires a drive up a very twisty dirt road. Once you are settled into the parking lot, the hike begins through a grassland then turns right sharply and enters…
This is a nice trail to take from Harrison Park to Inglis Falls. There is a great parking lot available in Harrison Park and if you are so inclined, before you enter the Inglis Falls Trail, you can scoot off to see Weavers Falls, which is a very short trail halfway through the park. It’s…
In February 2020, we visited Santa Maria Hualtuco, Las Bahías de Huatulco. It is located on the Pacific coast in the state of Oaxaca. In the map below, you can see that it is slightly south to where we lived in Belize, but significantly hotter. Most days were 33 degrees C and cloudless so getting…
This post spans almost 9 years of hiking around Tobermory on The Bruce Trail and showcases a bit of every season. Tobermory is located at the top of the Bruce Peninsula and offers visitors fresh, clean air, gorgeous scenery, tranquil waters, and the darkest sky’s in southern Ontario. Until European colonization in the mid-19th century,…
We drove right by the entrance (twice) the first time we went looking. To find the trail, you have to locate the small white sign, three kilometres down Concession 10 from Highway 26. It’s no larger than 12″ x 15″, and nailed to an old tree halfway down the ditch surrounded by growth and a…
Ketchikan is Alaska’s southeastern most major settlement. Downtown Ketchikan is a National Historic District. With a population of 8,000+, it is the fifth-most populous city in the state, and tenth-most populous community. The surrounding borough, encompassing suburbs both north and south of the city along the Tongass Highway (most of which are commonly regarded as…
In 1794 a survey crew described what is now called Glacier Bay as a five-mile indent in a glacier that stretched “as far as the eye could distinguish.” In 1879 when scientist/naturalist John Muir visited the area, he found the ice had retreated more than 30 miles, creating an actual bay. The glacier has continued…
The Hubbard Glacier is a tidewater glacier in Alaska and the Yukon Territory. From its source in the Yukon, the glacier stretches 122 km (76 mi) to the sea at Yakutat Bay and Disenchantment Bay. It is the longest tidewater glacier in Alaska, with an open calving face over ten kilometres (6 mi) wide. Before…
