After getting clouds and rains on Day 1 and Day 2, we were hoping for a nice Day 3 before we go back to Toronto.
Nope!! Still one cloudy day!!! Ugh, but at least with a lot less rain …
JW wanted to go canoeing in the morning .. I wasn’t so sure since all I could see was fog, and I don’t really like going places where I can’t see clearly around me
.. but we did go anyway for a bit, took a few pics and had fun.

After checking out from the cottage, I thought of taking JW to Dorset/Haliburton area and have lunch there, but it would be a bit too early for lunch when we got to the area. So, I changed my mind and we decided to go to Lake St. Peter Provincial Park on the other side of Algonquin Park. Do you know that we could use the Ontario Parks day pass to visit any Provincial Parks (pay once for a day)? We didn’t!
But then again, it doesn’t really matter since usually we only go to one park in a day .. next year, though, I might consider getting their summer pass.

We hiked the two trails there .. the Lookout Trail for a view of Lake St. Peter and the Shanty Trail (a.k.a. the Cabin Trail, a loop from the Lookout Trail) to see an abandoned log cabin (the Ole Joe’s Cabin). We didn’t see anybody on the trail, maybe because they marked it as “strenuous” or maybe because it’s wet.
But we did run into a chipmunk! Cute little guy, he looked at me only when I turned on my little camera but didn’t run away and then continued on to look for food.


More pics in my Lake St. Peter Provincial Park flickr set.
We went home from there taking the country roads instead of Hwy 400 — I find there are too many crazy drivers on Hwy 400 during the long weekend.
Good thing we took the country roads, since we found out later that there was an accident that closed Hwy 400 that evening .. we would’ve gotten home very late, hungry and cranky …). Besides, I love the scenery on the back roads …
We were greeted with a fabulous sunset when we got to the 401 … no rain, no cloud. 
But it was a nice long weekend.