28th September 2017

Granger = 564km
Mono Hills

Today was the day that this whole trip was about, we walked the section of the Bruce Trail that is Friendship twinned with our Bibbulmun track in WA. The track itself is a 4km section in the Boyne Valley. It was a fabulous piece of trail through Mixed Hardwood, Conifer Forests and also in woodland corridors beside rural Hay and Maize Paddocks. The terrain was well maintained and very easy to walk with a couple of gullies thrown in to make it interesting. I was attacked by a strategically place Ninja Root and went Ace over Base down track taking a serious piece of bark off each knee.

Once through this section it remained a mixture of woodlands and rural Ontario in general the trail was very easy hiking but it sure was hilly it seemed like we were walking uphill all day, just one gully after another then a long rolling never ending hill. The Boyne Valley provincial park is fabulous countryside for hiking and today's weather being overcast and cool made it even more pleasurable.

We sat on a boardwalk for lunch and Lari heard something moving in the undergrowth and turned around to be confronted by a Coyote. It had not seen us siting there then suddenly realized when it was only metered from us the crap that’s people there. It took off in uncontrolled leaps and bounds downhill stumbling and falling as it went crashing through fallen branches etc.

The hills certainly slowed us down even though the trail itself was fabulous to walk as it was open and with minimal challenges. We arrived at our rendezvous later than planned and called our hostess for a shuttle back to her B&B. As we had booked a rental car to assist with our shuttles she ran us into Orangeville, 8km, to pick it up. We then took off on a brief resupply trip for various food stuffs and some Mozzie repellant as our is about to run out. No time left in the day so it was time for dinner at Forage, which looked very ordinary from the outside but inside was beautiful and the food was simply amazing.

Back at the B&B our hostess Sandy, an 80 yr old artist is a bit of a character and loves to chat. It took all my guile to slip way and get cleaned up and ready to crash after was a very memorable day but exhausting.