Killarney

Killarney May 13th - 17th 2019

Killarney is a very pretty park on Georgian Bay and this is our second trip to it. Unfortunately, unless they fix the road going there it will be our last trip.

May 13th What a Back Yard

We showed up without a reservation so we could look around for a good site. The ranger at the gate said go ahead and look around, but check out site #77 which was free and usually isn't. So we went there and while the site itself was just barely useable for a 14 foot trailer, the back yard was easily the best I've ever seen in a park.

May 14th The Crack and Cranberry Bog

The Crack portion of the La Cloche trail is the reason to go to Killarney (that and the fish and chips I guess) and since Tuesday was an exceptionally fine day we decided to cross this one off the list first. Two years ago when we did this hike I found it extremely challenging and about the limit of my mountaineering skills. Since then we've hiked Gros Morne and several trails in Jasper so now I know this is a pretty but largely not challenging hike. The twenty minutes or so in the actual Crack are challenging, especially when the wasps are out sunning themselves and you have to avoid pissing them off, but especially now that they have the route well marked the rest of the hike is a walk in the woods as they say.


The Crack Trail Head	Starts out like a standard trail	They're doing improvements to the trail

This year it's much better for markers	Half way up	Start of The Crack

Choosing a route	There really is no route	This is where the wasps were

Made it to the top	View to the south east	View to the south west

Time for one more quick trail	Not really sure what this is	Bridge over the beavers

Some giant birds back there making an enormous noise	Time to go back to our little tiny campsite	With the amazing back yard

May 15th Granite Ridge and Chikanishing

Wednesday was supposed to be rainy and therefore Fish & Chips day, but while the weather wasn't spectacular like Tuesday it wasn't too too bad. So we crossed the road and did Granite Ridge in the morning. Then back to home base for lunch and then off to Chikanishing. You can walk to that trail but it's quite a piece so we decided to drive to the trail head.


Chilly Deb	Chilly campsite	Granite Ridge trail head

Nice view of Georgian Bay	And of the La Cloche mountains	Chikanishing

I really couldn't tell these guys apart if I caught one	This trail is really hard to follow	Although Deb was good at finding the little marks on the rocks

Made it to Georgian Bay	Rugged	Slippery when wet

Clouds upon clouds of little black flies

May 16th Rain Day

Chilly and rainy on Thursday, so all we really did was go to town for some fish'n'chips.


Chilly Deb	Chilly campsite	Fish and Chip joint

Fresh whitefish	Turns out there's a trail to the waterfront from our back yard	Suppertime

May 17th Home

Friday of the long weekend - time to go home. Unfortunately the gravel trucks were trying to get done whatever they do prior to the long weekend so they were going really fast and spraying gravel everywhere. We knew about the cracked windshield we got from one guy but weren't we surprised when we got home and found out he had also totalled one of the windows in the trailer. We're still waiting to find out what that's going to cost, and this will probably prevent us from ever going to Killarney again. That road sucks, and the gravel trucks really suck.


Nice new garbage bag window	To replace the totalled origional