On our second day at Killarney Provincial Park we hiked the Crack Trail (no, it has nothing to do with Mayor Rob Ford and his pipe smoking habit).
We headed there after a breakfast of French toast and bacon courtesy of the culinary skills of Peter.
The trail is 6 kilometres long (3 kilometres each way, there and back) and rated at a high level of difficulty. It's located 7 kilometres east of the park along Highway 637. Get there early because the parking lot fills up fast.
The trail starts off easy. It's pretty much flat for the first kilometre or two. By the time you near the end it rises sharply as you climb over huge boulders on your way up to the ridge. You have to be in good shape to attempt it for sure.
The views from the top are great. You overlook inland lakes and white hills in the park as well as the vast coastline of Georgian Bay. We took a break up there and snacked on the Vietnamese sandwiches Peter bought.
The Crack hike took around 4 hours. We returned to the campground by 4:30. It was fairly late in the afternoon to be sure, but we still wanted to do another hike.
The next one we tried was the Granite Ridge Trial. Em's mom was a bit tired so she stayed back and went to the George Lake beach while the rest of us walked across the street (Highway 637) to the trailhead.
The Granite Ridge Trail is a loop trail that's 2 kilometres long. It's rated at a moderate level with some steep sections. The suggested hiking time is estimated at 1-1/2 to 2 hours.
On the top of the ridge at the end of the trail you can see a thin sliver of Georgian Bay to the south. Turning to the north you see the La Cloche Range. After hiking The Crack earlier in the day this trail was ho-hum.
Dinner was next. We finished the remaining lamb, steak and sausages. They were still good, so none of us got sick.
Peter and I headed out to Lake George to try some more night photography at around 9:30. The skies were overcast this evening, so we didn't get any star shots. Instead we took long exposures of the clouds in the skies. I found a couple of new vantage points to shoot from. It was all right.
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