2017 Kayak Trip to Massassauga Provincial Park

I'm a day late with my blog due to not having my sketches totally completed yesterday. I wanted to blog about our Canoe Trip which turned out to be a Kayak trip this year. We originally were planning to visit Georgian Bay Islands National Park but because this was the 150th Birthday of Canada, we thought that area would be too busy. So we changed our route to Massassauga Provincial Park. This is solely a backcountry park so the sites cannot be accessed by car. We had toyed with the idea of kayaking in the past and because our group was small this year and we could get to our sites without portaging, we decided to try it.

I was skeptical that we could get all our gear along with us in kayaks but was pleasantly surprised that by packing smaller bags (as opposed to large backpacks) we could stuff everything into the hatches in the kayaks. We did take one canoe along to carry larger items such as the bear barrels for our food. We found that we didn't even have to do that because there was a metal bear box on our site for us to lock our food into each night and during the day if we were away.

It was really enjoyable to use kayaks and they performed well on the rougher water of Georgian Bay. We were able to explore the area very easily. The landscape here was different than Algonquin Park and there were many more cottages on the shores as well as motor boats and the occasional yacht. We enjoyed the trip very much.

The sketches below are from some of my photos from the trip and each participant on the trip will receive one. They are done with a uniball pen and watercolour.