Ziplining at Eaglecrest Aerial Park

Here are a couple of shots of us at Eaglecrest Aerial Park. It's actually part of the Santa's Village park in Bracebridge, Ontario. We bought discounted passes from one of those online coupon groups to go here.

I think a few people in our group were a bit disappointed with what we ended up doing. We only had two rides on the Big Zip, a 350-foot zip line there. The rest of the time we climbed up ladders and along wires strung between trees at the park. I think most people thought we'd be ziplining for most if not all of the day. In fact, we were only supposed to go on the Big Zip once. But, we didn't realize that and went twice. Oh well.

A few members of our group are afraid of heights. And some of them weren't prepared for the physical demands of climbing either. So they weren't that pleased when they found out that's what we'd be doing for most of the day. For me, it's all but second nature since I've rock climbed quite a bit in the past.

So I enjoyed myself. I thought it was fun. But, would I pay full price ($56.00) to do it? Not a chance. I know most of the guys wouldn't have done it for free if they knew this is what they'd be doing.

Cottaging in Bracebridge, ON

This past Friday and Saturday we went up to Bracebridge, Ontario. It's in the Muskokas a couple of hours north of Toronto. Cottage country.

We went up there because we were going to go Zip-lining at Eaglecrest Aerial Park in Bracebridge. Instead of just driving up there and back the same day, we decided to make a weekend out of it.

Thanks go out to Florianne who booked the cottage at Forest Rock Camp and Resort and Tom who prepared all the food. In general, I think everyone had a decent time out there. The weather wasn't great. It was cool and overcast for the most part. But, at least the rains stayed away. We also had to deal with the mosquitos. It could have been far worse. Everyone got a few bites, but that was about it.

On Saturday after the visit to the Aerial Park Virginia, Donny, Florianne and myself rented a couple of canoes for an hour to go canoeing on Three Mile Lake where the "resort" was located. It was fun. I like canoeing. Donny and Virginia had a bit of trouble making their way back from the half way point though. We had the wind on our backs on the way out. So, on the way back we had to, of course, go against it. Well, Donny had a bit of trouble with that. Their canoe kept getting pushed back to the far shoreline by the wind. After about 10 minutes of this repeatedly happening they finally got the boat pointed in the right direction and we eventually got back. I was a bit concerned we might be stuck out there all afternoon.

In the evenings after dinner we sat around the fire and chilled out. That was nice too.