Outdoors with Kids Log

I am a busy professional with 3 young children. This account is about the joys and challenges of staying active and outdoors with a young family, including the how to, where to and what to.

August 2007 archive

Cottage Country with the Family map_icon

I took the family to the parents' cottage in Kipawa, Quebec for a week's vacation and then on to a friend's cottage in Haliburton. We spent the week swimming, boating around, hiking in the back woods, fishing and tanning on the dock. My three year old got a big kick ...

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Canoeing in Ashbridges Baymap_icon

A couple of weeks ago I took my 3 year old daughter on a little day paddle in Ashbridges Bay, near Woodbine Beach in Toronto. I strapped the canoe (a standard issue 16 foot fiberglass Prospector, nothing special) to the SUV and we drove the approximately 1.8 kilometres from my ...

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