Wayne D's Blog

This year's canoe trip was in Killarney Provincial Park from Bell Lake to Silver Peak and back. (Check out the narrated slide show at the end of this post in this post)

On Day 1 we started at the Bell Lake access and canoed through Bell, Three Mile and Balsalm Lake to a great campsite on a small island close to the portage from Balsam to David lake. Day 2 was through the portage and into a campsite on David Lake. On Day 3 we canoed across David Lake and hiked up Silver Peak. Day 4 was back out of David Lake and through Balsam into a campsite on Little Bell Lake. Day 5 retraced out route to the Bell Lake access point and then home. Though we took 5 days with good weather this trip could be made in three. The hike up Silver Peak is long but not as strenous as the hike up Maple Mountain in Temagami was last year. Our routmap is shown below, clicking on the various objects will pop up a balloon with extra details. Unfortunately I haven't figured out how to add text annotation to Google maps yet. I took some pictures but haven't developed them yet, I'll post them as soon as I do.

Legend:
Blue Line - Day 1
Green Line - Day 2
Yellow Line - Day 3
Red Line - Day 4
Violet - Day 5

Push pins - Portages (colour matches the day)
Red Cross - bear sighting on the first day

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Here is a narrated slide show of the trip.