Day 56 - Dash to Muskoka

 

The season is almost over and we have decided at the last moment to go North of Toronto and visit the Muskoka region.  The boys cam home last night and said they were off school tomorrow.  This gave me the idea and now we are gone.  We will be back on Sunday night.  We are going to stay in a cabin, go canoeing, swimming, hiking and that sort of thing.

We had a great time on our weekend away. It was idyllic. Beautiful autumn colours and the warmth and sun of the last few hours of summer. The temperature was in the mid 20s during the day but very cool at night. On the way we came across a bear. The picture is above. Very sad. He had just been hit by a car. Although you would expect to meet bears in Canada, they are in fact quite rarely seen, especially so close to civilisation. He was less than a year old (so we are told) so you can see that he would have grown up to be quite a big lad.