In search of the falls

Some photos I missed off from yesterday's post:

A picture of our umbrella (for shade not rain) for Grandma with Chantry Island in the background

Huffle looking 'pleased' with his cup of berries I packed in the cool box - sand got in, oh and a crisp! Whoops.

My footprint - is it in or out?

Small's footprint and mine. In or out?

What should have been a stormy, ropey day, turned into a very hot and humid day. However, our plans were to go in search of at least one falls, maybe three.

We had a lovely outside breakfast, watching the Olympics. We watched the horse jumping and the Canoe Slalom (although we were disappointed we weren't in it). Then Grandma and Grandad skyped us and we swapped sunny/rainy stories. They showed us their lovely yellow raspberries and ate them in front of us! PAH!

Us Skyping the enormous raspberry

The boys played together and we all slowly got ready for a day out.

First we headed towards Jones Falls.

We couldn't keep up with Smallest - he walked fast, he was really excited.

A lovely tree we passed, even Small liked this one.

The write up said "Don't leave home without seeing it". So we found it, we walked through the woods to it. We walked over the big boulders and then we saw it. DRY. This is what it should have looked like:

And this is what it did look like.

Very disappointing, but I suppose they haven't had rain here for ages so it is bound to dry up. I actually found it interesting to see the rock formation under the falls and to stand where the water would have been but the boys were very disappointed! We met a man there who's family was originally from Slough, England, and he told us that when it does rain, the falls is spectacular. He also told us to visit the Inglis Falls as it is much better.

Small very close to the edge.

We were hungry so we decided to stop off in Owen Sounds. Huffle's comment of the day was "it is an urban place, at least they will definitely have somewhere to eat here". WRONG! It was all cafes and coffee shops. We tried a pizza place but they weren't very accommodating so we ended up in a pub and had grilled cheese sandwiches. Is was nice and cool in there, the food was alright and we got directions to another falls we wanted to see. I forgot though that when we ask for directions, Huffle and I hear the first two instructions and then we drift off. It's not us being rude, it's not that we don't want to know the directions, it is just that we seem incapable of listening past the first few streets! Unfortunately this means that we never really quite get where we want to go, I assume he will hear past the bit I hear and he assumes the same of me (even though we have been married for nearly twelve years!!!!!).

Anyway, we eventually found Weavers Creek Falls. This one boasted "two types of waterfalls in one". Oooh goody. We parked in a national park which seemed nice. Lots of play parks for the littles. An ice cream place and a..............campsite. Which we avoided (at first!). Again, this is what it should have looked like:

The instructions were simple enough. "follow the marked trails........look for the boardwalk". Even we could take that instruction in and follow it. However, we couldn't find the markers and we saw no boardwalk. Does boardwalk here mean something different? Could it be a concrete path? Could it be a dirt path through a forest? Our five minute walk turned into 40 mins. It was nice to walk through the trees but the boys weren't keen.

Lovely cool walk till it got steeper and harder to climb

This is the best we saw

The walk said it was moderate but we climbed and climbed and climbed and then I looked at the OS on my phone and we were nowhere near the river so we came back. We had to come back through the campsite. Huffle said he wanted me to see how camping life looked from the inside in case I ever got any ideas of a camping holiday! We had an ice cream which was poor quality. It was called London Ice-Cream 'how ice cream used to be'. Not in our London it's not. guessing it's the Canadian London. Not one we would eat again. Obviously we are connoisseurs now. Kawarthy and Hometown and a Gelato one we found in Toronto are so far our favourites.

So, the boys went on the park for some considerable time. We watched them, played a bit too, and generally people watched.

The boys talking through a megaphone style thing

A climbing roundabout?

Up in the crows nest

Huffle using the talky thing

Smallest stood on a bridge and Small wound it to make it go across - clever

On the swing laughing because I called him stinky feet!

We should have then gone on to Inglis Falls but Huffle was fed up and he refused to see anymore falls that didn't exist. This day out was my idea. Tomorrow we are back on the beach. Safer there!

When we got back we had a chill out in the garden (partly due to a tantrum from smallest). We Skyped Madamme Courvoisier and Mr Pickle. It was raining in Florida - can you believe it? It was raining in Leicestershire too! Not here! not yet!

We took our picnic onto the beach opposite our house. We had a walk around. The boys climbed rocks.

We passed this house - we like it - "it stands well"

Lovely rocks looking out to the lake

Boys doing an 'alternative alternative blog photo'

Look at that purple cloud - how did that happen?

We picked up sticks and interesting driftwood. We found stripey stones.

Huffle also doing an 'alternative alternative blog photo'

We ate our picnic and nearly got jumped on by a dog. We walked up to the lighthouse and along to the end of it.

Don't stand on there boys! It says DANGER! Oh I'll just take a quick photo first

Look at that sky!

Smallest requested that we have a photo with tongues sticking out!

"not too close to the edge!"

Some boats opposite where we are staying

Then we came home. The boys watched Wacky Races, we caught up on emails and then the boys went to bed. It's a hot evening.

 

 

 

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