My Trip to Algonquin National Park

Though I’ve lived in Ontario for a while now I’ve never been to Algonquin National Park, that is until last week when two friends and I planned a four day canoe trip through the park. With a few trips to MEC and Al Flaherty’s to pick up some essential new gear we headed out early saturday morning for a three our drive north to the portage store where we would rent our canoe and the voyage would begin.

The trip we planned was pretty adventurous for first timers, but the route looked fairly easy to navigate from the map and I was sure that I could handle the water navigation. Sure enough, I never needed a GPS or even my trusty compass.

While I did bring my fishing gear, and even tried my hand at fishing 2-3 different lakes, there really was not enough time in the day to do any meaningful fishing. More often then not we were pushing pretty hard to make it to the next campsite with plenty of time to setup camp and explore the surrounding area. Next time I plan to spend two nights at one campsite so I can spend one day fishing and exploring.

Continue to my gallery of photos from Algonquin National Park

Casio Sea Pathfinder Watches

If anyone out there in Internet-land has been thinking of buying me a gift, I could really use a new watch. I’m not really a watch person, and would never even look at a clock if I didn’t have to be at work at a specific time. The last watch I owned was a calculator watch, and that was a very long time ago.

I just discovered that Casio offers some watch that do a whole lot more then tell time. That have watches with compasses, moon phases and tides all wrapped up in one tasty package. If you are a long time fisherman, I’m sure I don’t need to explain how all of these things could came in very handy for a fisherman. Since I live near the ocean, there tides and moon phases really interest me. I’ll be hitting the saltwater every chance I can for the rest of the season since a friend of mine now has access to a decent little boat.

Combining the best elements of Pathfinder & Sea Pathfinder, Casio introduces the best Pathfinder to date. The Multi-Band 5 Atomic Solar Pathfinder steps beyond its core competencies of Digital Compass, Altimeter, Barometer and Thermometer by adding Tide and Moon Graphs and Moon Age Data. And if that wasn’t enough, it’s 200M Water Resistant!

Casio Sea Pathfinder

Sadly I could never justify the $400 price tag that comes with this watch – especially when there are so many awesome fishing reels that need to be purchased first!