Practice Journey:
For our practice journey, we completed 6 hours of various activities to help prepare us for our qualifying journey. We began with kayaking around Rheault Bay by our cottages on Turnbull Island. While we were out on the kayaks, we also practiced kayak emergency procedures like the “T-Boat” rescue. Back on land, we practiced campsite activities like building a fire, setting up a tent and campsite cooking. We then brainstormed items we need and created group and personal equipment lists (shown below.) We also discussed ways to make sure that our trip has no negative impact on the environment and went over the Wilderness Code of Behaviour. In the summer of 2014, I went on a 2-week canoe trip with Camp Stephens and I will use the skills I learned on that trip during this Adventurous Journey! …show more content…
Our leader for this trip was Claire’s cousin, Tom Meier. Tom has had many years of camping experience in Lake of the Woods. He recommended camping on the southeast end of Shammis Island.
We decided to paddle from Middle Island to Shammis Island and planned to kayak around 12 km each day. My Uncle, who is an avid paddler, has a cabin on Middle Island and he very kindly allowed us to borrow two of his kayaks for our journey and use his cabin as a starting point! For our second day of paddling we originally were going to kayak around the other side of Shammis Island and across the larger portion of water to Middle Island. However, on our first day of the journey, as we were paddling we noticed how rough that larger portion of water was. Therefore, we decided to travel back the same way on the second day just as a safety precaution.
Apart from some rough water, we had amazing weather for our trip and overall I had a great experience. I haven’t camped since my previous two-week canoe trip experience, so it was nice to camp and paddle again, and to do it with some friends was a
For our practice journey, we completed 6 hours of various activities to help prepare us for our qualifying journey. We began with kayaking around Rheault Bay by our cottages on Turnbull Island. While we were out on the kayaks, we also practiced kayak emergency procedures like the “T-Boat” rescue. Back on land, we practiced campsite activities like building a fire, setting up a tent and campsite cooking. We then brainstormed items we need and created group and personal equipment lists (shown below.) We also discussed ways to make sure that our trip has no negative impact on the environment and went over the Wilderness Code of Behaviour. In the summer of 2014, I went on a 2-week canoe trip with Camp Stephens and I will use the skills I learned on that trip during this Adventurous Journey! …show more content…
Our leader for this trip was Claire’s cousin, Tom Meier. Tom has had many years of camping experience in Lake of the Woods. He recommended camping on the southeast end of Shammis Island.
We decided to paddle from Middle Island to Shammis Island and planned to kayak around 12 km each day. My Uncle, who is an avid paddler, has a cabin on Middle Island and he very kindly allowed us to borrow two of his kayaks for our journey and use his cabin as a starting point! For our second day of paddling we originally were going to kayak around the other side of Shammis Island and across the larger portion of water to Middle Island. However, on our first day of the journey, as we were paddling we noticed how rough that larger portion of water was. Therefore, we decided to travel back the same way on the second day just as a safety precaution.
Apart from some rough water, we had amazing weather for our trip and overall I had a great experience. I haven’t camped since my previous two-week canoe trip experience, so it was nice to camp and paddle again, and to do it with some friends was a