And I've Lived Here, How Long?

Today we followed 3 trails in the area that we have never been on before. We've driven by a couple of them for over 30 years, and never even knew they were there! The other one is within walking distance, and while I suspected there was a trail there, I've never been on it before.

The first was the Merrickville Beach trail.....an old snowmobile trail, from the looks of it. I believe there are plans to join it with the trail behind the French School (St Marguerite Bourgois).

The second one was near the Riverside Park on County Rd 44, outside of Kemptville. Lovely trail. It actually leads down to the river before turning to follow it.

As we were just finding the trailhead, another group of people were leaving. Turns out it was the owner of the cache and his entire and extended family. Wow. I almost met a real pro at this. From his profile page, I found he has over 1200 finds already.

Then we carried on to find a causeway to a park on an island that we never knew was there. John C. Foster Park is 23 acres of parkland. We've only been driving by this for the past 33 years! We would have stayed to explore more of the trails but we heard gunshots, and remembered it was hunting season. Not the best time to be poking around in the woods and we had not thought of that until then. I guess we'll have to explore some urban areas for a while.