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October 24:
We attended an “event geocache” today. The event was to rent a boat and search for a bunch of traditional geocaches in the Thousand Islands. It was lots of fun. [on the deck, in the cabin, osprey nest, found one!, another osprey nest, stopping to refuel]
Our favourite island was Mermaid Island, which we thought was very pretty. It is quite close to shore and there is supposed to be deep water swimming there (no weeds to grab your feet!), so we thought we might like to rent a canoe in the summer and return for a picnic.
Celine was very excited to visit all these beautiful places and when everybody else was busy looking at the plastic toys in the caches she would go off exploring the islands. [whaleback, orange lichen, wooden bridge]
One of the other geocachers who came to the event brought me some army field rations to try. I think it is traditional to bring small presents to hand out at these events, and he was responding to a question I had asked in the mailing list about a meal nicknamed “The Lung.” He didn’t bring that one though. (Whew!) Celine thought the meal was a bit spooky.
October 30:
Celine, Christine, and I went for a hike to see the fall colours. [leaning, raindrops].
October 31:
The Rideau Trail Association opened a new trail and somebody promptly hid a new geocache on it, so Celine and I went out to see. [leaves, rocks, juniper, cliff top, stylish hair-do].
Celine bought some squash from the infamous gourd stall in Prince Edward County. We used the orange one for a soup and the blue one for a pie. I really like squash.
