Outdoors with Kids Log
I am a busy professional with 3 young children. This account is about the joys and challenges of staying active and outdoors with a young family, including the how to, where to and what to.
Best of the Bruce Trail - Waterdown Trail
- Posted on January 17, 2008 at 7:26 PM
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I have been inactive for a few months making it through the crunch of yearend. The family did remain somewhat active with weekend dayhikes in the Greater Toronto Area. We did hikes in the following areas: -Kortright Conservation Centre, near Woodbridge, Ontario, one half hour north of Toronto; -Rattlesnake Point ...
Cottage Country with the Family 
I took the family to the parents' cottage in Kipawa, Quebec for a week's vacation and then on to a friend's cottage in Haliburton. We spent the week swimming, boating around, hiking in the back woods, fishing and tanning on the dock. My three year old got a big kick ...
Canoeing in Ashbridges Bay
A couple of weeks ago I took my 3 year old daughter on a little day paddle in Ashbridges Bay, near Woodbine Beach in Toronto. I strapped the canoe (a standard issue 16 foot fiberglass Prospector, nothing special) to the SUV and we drove the approximately 1.8 kilometres from my ...
Royal Botanical Gardens, Burlington, Ontario, Day Hike
- Posted on July 24, 2007 at 8:00 PM
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On Sunday we drove to the Royal Botanical Gardens in Burlington, Ontario (website http://www.rbg.ca/) to see the sights and check out some subsidiary hiking trails that link up with the main Bruce Trail. Traffic from downtown Toronto to Burlington was unusually heavy for a summer Sunday afternoon, but we arrived ...
Devil's Pulpit day hike, Bruce Trail, Ontario, Canada
- Posted on April 22, 2007 at 9:12 PM
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Since we had to be at my mother in law's for a family lunch at 2pm, we did not have time for a long hike. We decided to check out the Devil's Pulpit day hike on the Bruce Trail adjacent to the Credit River. This hike was listed in the ...
