Adventure #4: Starting off the Season in McCrae Lake
As the weather began getting nicer, my itch to get back on the water only grew stronger. It had been many months of no camping, and I was ready to get back out there, finally trying out all the new gear I had received for Christmas and my birthday. Thus, I decided to start off the season with an easy weekend trip with my boyfriend Jeff to McCrae Lake, a section of crown land just off the 400 hwy. We packed up all of our gear, including my new canoe, and headed on our way the morning of Saturday, June 8th, 2019. We managed to find a parking spot in the very full lot before making a trip with our gear first, and then the canoe, through the first little 100-200m portage to McDonald Lake. Luckily for us, Jeff and I are around the same height and have a similar stride, so we were able to portage the canoe together without much difficulty. As we were loading the canoe with our gear, we saw our first wildlife of the trip which happened to be a water snake swimming past. We paddled through