Adventure #9: A Crown Land Adventure with Jeff
Given the recent ease of restrictions that the province had put in place for camping due to COVID-19, my boyfriend Jeff and I decided to head out to some crown land to enjoy the backcountry over his birthday weekend. Our initial plan was to recreate last year's trip to McCrae Lake; however, we planned to leave much earlier as we expected that it would be fairly busy there. On Friday, June 5th, in the evening, Jeff and I loaded up the canoe and finished packing our gear so that we would be able to leave around 7am the next day. As McCrae Lake was only about a half-hour drive, we arrived at the parking lot before 8am, only to discover, not only a packed parking lot but a lineup of cars down either side of the laneway, and a continuing row of cars parked down the road. We decided fairly quickly that we definitely wouldn't be camping at McCrae that weekend. Pulling onto the shoulder of the road to park for a bit, Jeff and I pulled out our phones in search of some new cro