Outdoors

This camping trip marked our first of many outdoor adventures together. Murphys Point is located in the "Southeast Region" of the Ontario Parks system, near Perth. It is a beautiful park, family oriented and although on the smaller scale, it offers wonderful opportunities for wildlife viewing with numerous activities to experience day or night.

During this particular trip, we booked in the Fallows Campgound on Old Stone Road, Site #135. The campsite was clean and private with water and privy a few sites down. We like booking sites that aren't directly around those areas to avoid pedestrian traffic.

The weather was good for much of the trip except for the last day when he had to pack up our gear in the rain. Since then, we have purchased a very large tarp to hang over the tent area as we only have a balcony and attemping to dry the fly of an 8-man tent takes 2-3 days.

This park had been a place of childhood memories for Keir and I was excited to share in what he loved so much about it. We rented a canoe from the park store and picked our canoe up from Hogg Bay where we spent the afternoon on the calm water exploring all the corners and edges it had to offer.

We had the wonderful opportunity to see a loon gliding across as well as a beautiful great blue heron on the small island across from the beach. If you paddle quietly or stop and allow the water to carry you, you can also see many turtles sunbathing on logs and fish swimming under the canoe.

The beach at Hogg Bay had frogs upon frogs in the reeds and along the shore, they were fun to watch...I can spend hours looking for frogs...ask Keir.

We had a few nightime visitors wander through the campsite but the raccoons were very shy and kept moving through the site.

For our canoe trip and our walks to the beach we packed peanut butter and jam sandwiches and dinner came with the usual hotdogs meal. I introduced Keir however to the simplicity of campfire quesidillas and now we have them everytime we go!

Murphys Point has hiking trails but this is the only provincial park we have been to...numerous times where we have not hiked a single trail! The wildlife viewing is so amazing even from the campsites along with the enjoyment of the canoe trips, we seem to run out of time! Our next trip to Murphys Point will definitely need to include the exploration of their trails!

It is a beautiful place to be; the staff are extremely friendly, the sites are well maintained, and the scenery of the park leaves it to be without a doubt, a favourite of ours and we will always go back.