Wye Marsh

This weekend turned out to be hot, dry and sunny. Perfect to get the vette out for some road time.

Saturday we headed up to Orillia to take a look at the repairs that were done on the 5th wheel and of course hand over the cash for the repairs. The handy man that did the work did an excellent job and Tara is looking like new again. We had some water damage under the front nose. He fixed that up and installed diamond shield aluminum all under the nose and down the front. Re-caulked every where. And did some maintance on the slides what were pretty rusty after all the Florida humidity over the winter which had caused us some heartburn on our trip home this spring. We had a visit with Tom and Christine who are nice enough to let us store Tara on their property and who recommended the handy man to us.

From there we headed into Orillia to visit with Ron and Pat McKenzie. They suggested we walk over to a new restaurant near their place for dinner. Good choice. The food was excellent. Thanks again guys for dinner. It is always nice to visit with you. Have a safe trip up to Dryden!!

Sunday we were up early and again headed north. This time to Minden and to the Wye Marsh. We had heard that there was some good hiking there.

They have a trumpeter swan recovery facility in the park. These birds are huge!! They say that the Marsh has been very instrumental in the comeback of these birds to Ontario.

 

There is a nice boardwalk that spans part of the marsh.

Lets you get up close to the fauna and flora.

We stopped for lunch at an observation station along the way.

We had hoped that we would come back to kayak on the marsh but learned that it is done as an hour long guided tour. You are not allowed to go out on your own. So I think we will pass on that. We spent about 3 hours at the Marsh and walked about 5 miles on the trails. We took the scenic route home with the convertible top down to get our ration of vitamin D.

Lovely weekend. This is what summer is all about. Until next time - safe travels.

 

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