We drove from Dan’s place (thanks again, Dan!! Oh, and we love the light — it’s perfect for our tent attic) to Tobermory and camped at the Cypress Lake campground in Bruce Peninsula National Park.\u00a0 It was a perfect warm night for the first night in our spanking new Eureka El Capitan tent.<\/p>\n
Chris graciously let me sleep on her 3″ thermarest with memory foam top!\u00a0 My back is sore from being rear-ended on the 401 in Toronto.\u00a0 (more on that later…)<\/p>\n
Alas, the morning wasn’t as good a treat as the night as it started to rain (hard) and had us soaked before we could strike camp.\u00a0 We had booked the 13:30 ferry from Tobermory to Manitoulin Island and were there in plenty of time (thanks to my Dad for the excellent tip to “book ahead” to ensure a spot!).<\/p>\n
A nice ferry ride across and our spirits lifted up a bit (well, mostly mine as I was feeling sorry for myself with a sore back, getting over a cold, wet from rain, and was just in a generally pissy mood for the morning..)\u00a0 The sun even came out!\u00a0 We decided that camping would be a “go” again tonight and we are now at the very comfortable “Batman Campsite” (Named after an actual Mr. Batman!\u00a0 Look it up<\/a>.. it’s true.)<\/p>\n A short 2.2 km hike (check the bear paw print we found) and then back to the campsite for a quick spaghetti dinner, this blog post and in bed by 21:45 is the plan.<\/p>\n Tomorrow we’re heading to Sault Ste. Marie where we’ll overnight and then Monday morning do what I should have done before leaving Ottawa — which is to go to a chiropractor about my back pain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We drove from Dan’s place (thanks again, Dan!! Oh, and we love the light — it’s perfect for our tent attic) to Tobermory and camped at the Cypress Lake campground in Bruce Peninsula National Park.\u00a0 It was a perfect warm night for the first night in our spanking new Eureka El Capitan tent. Chris graciously […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-desert-trip","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/DSC06009.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pg38Ol-m","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterluscher.com\/deserttrip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}