Our Walk Along The Bruce Trail (BTC)

Exploring Bruce Peninsula National Park Nature in Canada's National Parks Jumping awake this morning to the sound of our “neighbour’s” RV door slamming, I immediately worried that we all needed to get up and start hiking before the day got too hot.  Thankfully, I quickly remembered that we didn’t have to hike anywhere – after our hardest day trekking yesterday, we had a day open to explore and relax!  I am sure that many might think it odd to take a day off the trail when we are merely 20 kilometres (or a day’s hike) away from our goal.  However, we had the time, we were in no rush to bring our hike on the Bruce Trail to an end, and we needed to rest our bodies.  A day off the trail also allowed us to explore Bruce Peninsula National Park. Cyprus Lake Trail With no set goal for today, we luxuriated around our campsite, enjoying not having to hike and not having our trekking boots or backpacks on.  After lunch, we set off around Cyprus Lake on the national park t...

Rigours of the Bruce Trail Hiking from High Dump to Cyprus Lake Sleeping last night was extraordinarily refreshing. Situated on a camping platform at the base of the Niagara Escarpment and only a short distance from the shoreline of Georgian Bay was very peaceful. The only sounds throughout the night were the calls of loons and the gentle rolling grind of the rocks on the beach as the waves slowly shifted them. As the sun lit up the sky and the side of the tent, I just wanted to snuggle further down into my sleeping bag and stay forever. Today our goal seemed so simple, to make our way from the High Dump Campsite toward the main campground at Cyprus Lake at the heart of Bruce Peninsula National Park . This is a distance of only 12 kilometres or so, which given yesterday’s experiences, we assumed meant that we might well walk into Cyprus Lake around noon or slightly afterwards. How wrong this estimation would turn out to be... Climbing out of our tent and striving not to fall off t...