Here Squeeters Squeeters! Part 1

The boy and I went camping for 1 nite in the High Falls area, 40mins north of Peterborough. It's crown land, so no park fees required, first come, first served. It's not a problem for us since the location we want to camp is quite obsure. It's a clearing that we found last year and Neil doesn't think that anyone else has been there since. Why? Because you have to bush-whack for about 30 mins before you can get there. It was Sept last year when we went so it had significantly less vegetation (and bugs).

Day 1
This time of the year, it is mosquito city. Squitos, Squeeters, Mossies, whatever you want to call them...they LOVE me.

Current bite count: 22. (There may be more as the itching sometimes doesn't start a full day later.)

We set up camp, built a fire and started out our "Meat on a stick" food fest. Souvlakis and sausage weiners. It is Atkins diet when we go camping. We finished our meal with some S'mores and tea.

As forecasted by the weather man, we got rained on that nite. It started about 8ish, so we tidied up and went to bed early.

Day 2
We woke up at approx. 5:30am.
Between the tent and the vestibule were lots and lots of mossies! They must've used the vestibule as a hide-out through the rain. But let's get back to the story...what is really important is that it is REVENGE TIME! I must've killed a dozen of them! Muahahahaaaaa....(I smashed them between the tent's mesh lining and the vestibule.)

Neil saved some firewood from the nite before under a tarp so we can have dry wood for the morning campfire. When he was fixing up the firepit, there were slugs all over it...all the wonderous things that come out after the rain!

Breakfast: Hard broiled eggs, oatmeal, tea and S'mores.

At about 8:30am, we left our campsite and hiked back to the car to lighten our load before hiking into the Falls.
Here are some pics of us hiking through the trail. In this picture, Neil is actually STANDING on a beaver dam.

After an hour of hiking, we are at the Falls!



cont'd in next post....