hiking – Baby T's Fashion Diaries

November 19, 2021November 19, 2021

Hiking: Tobermory

We have wanted to visit Tobermory since we moved to the Greater Toronto Area. But accommodations are always booked up a year in advance and traveling 6 hrs back and forth in one day just didn’t seem worth it. Especially since it’s been known to be SO packed that people cannot enter the parks.

We were looking for the cheapest vacation that we could, like max $1500, and since it was the off season we found some good deals on renting a whole cottage to ourselves.

Since it was also off season, it meant that we would have the trails to ourselves and wouldn’t have to worry about when we arrived at the parks.

I was happily surprised that the trails around the Grotto were relatively short. We thought we might have to carry the pup back. But 3-5kms is basically his max and what we were able to do that day! Although we almost started on the wrong trail that was 18kms haha

We ran into a few other brave souls as we were going through the trails. We reached the rocky beach and a lady was shocked to see a bulldog with us. “Is he half bulldog, half goat?” Hahah our little man can surprisingly keep up and has the same explorer personality.

These two will often go right to the edge of cliffs, no problem, which scares me to no end. But it really does make for beautiful photos.

I have read that it’s VERY difficult to get a shot of the grotto without other people in your photos. But we were the only ones around!

One bigger purchase me and the Man made before this trip was our jackets. For people that often go hiking, we actually have no “winter coats”. That is no functional ones, more stylish. Since we knew it was going to be mighty cold by the water, we purchased some Canadiana jackets from Walmart. Which I must say… was probably our best purchase in a long while. A great value for the price they were selling at….we were expecting to pay around $300 and we paid about half that.

I planned for us to spend the sunset by the lighthouse in tobermory. Google doesn’t have the correct location, and the road to find the light house actually states there is no access to the water on the road to get there. Obviously to deter tourist on a residential road that I can imagine gets WAY too packed in the summer.

It was a pretty cloudy day and I was really hoping to get some amazing sunset shots. But these subtle purplish shots are pretty too!

I sent The Man up the lookout tower for my last sunset shot of the night. I attempted to climb the tower and made it about half way up before I looked down through the grates and felt my legs buckle as I clung myself to the railing. There was no way I would be able to walk down from the top hahaha I would probably have to sit and slide my way down like a toddler.

Well that’s another one off the bucket list!

November 14, 2021November 14, 2021

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A familiar trail in fall

Going to a familiar trail in fall definitely hits different. We’ve walked this trail before in the peak of summer. Our pup couldn’t even make it the whole trail and we had to turn back.

This time we decided to start at the opposite end so we can see the most of the trial. I believe we picked the best time to see it too because the river had become shallow enough that waterfalls unearthed.

The colours surrounding the areas were so beautiful. We couldn’t help but stop and stare up at the splendor, a woman giggled at us marveling and confirmed that it’s stunning.

I had to snap this leaf which was like a rainbow all on its own.

We followed a side trail as we normally do and found this little frozen pond in the middle of nowhere. Isolated and frozen amongst the warm earth and rainbow skies…it really was a sight.

Although fall in it’s peak leaf transition is beautiful, I think my favourite is when the earth is blanketed in red.

Thanks for coming along on this hike!

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January 2, 2021January 2, 2021

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Winter Ontario Hiking: Balls Falls

We found a waterfall that we haven’t visited within travelling distance in Ontario. Its called Balls Falls in Lincoln Ontario. It’s our first official hike of the year. I joined a challenge called “January Hiking Challenge” to get out at least five times in January for an Ontario Hike.

I normally pick my best photo from the bunch, or my most beloved, and post to instagram. But I always think all the photos are so pretty, so instead I’ll be writing a blog post about each of these hiking trails with lots of beautiful imagery.

Balls Falls is actually a pretty easy hike. There are multiple trails with the longest at a max of 1.7km.

The trails were pretty mucky… so very slippery, especially without proper shoe attire. But I wanted there to be at least a light snow fall for our first hike of the year. Even if it followed days on rain.

The conservatory was so pretty with a lot of historical buildings. We definitely want to come back when the park has all facilities open. As you can see below, we took a sneak peak inside the buildings!

I loved the patches of green under the trees. The contrast 🥰

There’s a spinning wheel in the corner there!

There are actually two waterfalls at this location. A lower one that is a short walk from parking….near all the historical buildings. Another is at the end of the loop of the longest trail.

I didn’t capture the upper waterfall unfortunately! My phone died right as we got to the lookout point. I normally plug in my phone in the car since the navigation kills my phone. Ah! Lessons learned.

I hope you enjoyed coming along with me on this hike. Let me know you enjoyed this type of blog post by liking or commenting below!!