Haliburton

Friday, Day 17
9:10 PM
Written in Timmins, Ont.,
after spending the week in Haliburton.



Haliburton, its highlands and its lake, as seen from lookout at Skyline Park

 

We just spent seven days beautiful days near Haliburton, Ont., a small town set in hilly cottage country. You know you live in a nice place if its main industry is tourism: your backyard is everyone else's vacation!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Where`s Waldo?
Hint: try looking above one of the wheels.

 

A restored train parked in town has been a favourite climbing haunt for my brother and me for as long as I can remember. This time we figured out how to climb into the underbelly of the engine...

A strange new world opened up before us, forming a veritable jungle gym of crisscrossing bars, bolts and platforms. It made for a sort of spelunking experience which would not have been appreciated by the particularly claustrophobic. But we had fun.

Another amazing thing about this country is the canoeing. These scenes are from a river we paddled that extends from the lake right in town.