October 19, 2008

fall colours

Yesterday I explored new terrain with the humans. We went out for a big hike at a new place renowned for it's fall colours, dog-friendliness and great hiking. It's called Duffin's Creek Education Centre...

There was so much to explore. We walked through paved roads, dirt trails, open fields, bridges, a forest, and a sand pit...


The trees were beeeeeautiful...

We had no idea just how big this conservation area was. There were no maps at all, so we just kept following directions to a Pioneer cabin. We hiked for over an hour and our shadows were starting to get long...

Finally we came to the cabin. It was very isolated and the humans thought it was pretty creepy. We thought THIS was the cabin, but it is just a shed. The cabin was tucked back further in the woods....

We explored the cabin and the fire pits and then realized it was already starting to get dark. We didn't know if we should continue on the trail we were travelling and hope it went back to the entrance of the place or turn and go back the way we came. We decided to continue on a little bit more...

This is the part where we ended up in the forest. We were totally off the trails, so of course - I had a blast! There were so many smells to smell and I liked running over the logs and checking out the creek. It was so deep and wide and I hear there are sometimes brown trout in there! When we were deep in the forest we heard traffic, which meant we were so close to the road, but we couldn't cross that creek so we realized we would have to walk all the way back the way we came. It was a long way!

We hiked out of the conservation area just before it got dark. I was getting tired...

What a great day. I slept really well last night!

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