  Our family travel after Stage 2 opening in Ontario. I am writing our travel experiences and with family, three kids, parents and friends. We started with GreenWood Conservation Area in Ajax. While we could only go to few places with kids and parents, with social distancing in mind, just wanted to be close to home, not too far but in open area with nature for some time. We were out after a long self isolation time during the months starting from March break until June.
GreenWood Conservation Area: Amazingly Green Wonder within a City Beautiful, peaceful and very wide open park with few large group picnic spots under sheds and trails. I can say it is a Green Wonder in between the cities. There is one trail which attracts us to go there again and again. We get down few steps under the hill, pass through a small bridge and meet water. ITs pretty quiet and clean water stream where I have seen people just chilling out with their pets or just sitting around in a cool small area besides the stream. The trails then goes further. Also there is another trail which leads to the lookout scenic point. Watch out: for wasps and bugs on the trail. Short Trip to Niagara: Little Different than Usual Niagara Glen Nature Reserve: This time we thought of doing different than usual which is just going to niagara falls, looking and taking pictures of the falls, going to the arcades and coming back home tired after long drive. This time I wanted to explore more, do different, see different. So decided to visit Niagara. I googled as usual, but I have learnt to go with flow and not to overplay wherever we go for the trips as most of the times over-planning ruins the real fun of the instant joy. I just check on some pictures, facilities and do little quick research to avoid any disappointments, but rest I leave up to the time, destiny and nature. I trust on them and they have never disappointed me till now. So in this case, I just saw some reviews and never knew how beautiful was the trail. I did not even know where exactly that particular tail was until when we arrived there my son ran to the scenic spot and called us to see. We saw the staff directed people somewhere with a big board of map. That map was the map of the trail underneath. Many visitors have never found this place as they think they have arrived the wrong place. So I will write where exactly is this trail. So when you park , come down to the picnic area, on your left there is a big map board, just beside it there is a steel steep steps to go underneath the hill which leads you to the trial. The trail is amazing, after some time you hear the water gushing. From some point at the trail you can come close to gushing water. But we did not go much down are it seemed not to be safe to do much closer to gushing water. So just took some pics and carried on with the trail. I have posted some videos, pics and maps for you so that you have not miss this spot like other did. Cows IceCream: After a long trail, hot weather was a turn to get cool down with COWS ice cream at Niagara on the Lake. Around 25 minutes drive from the Niagara lake we arrive to this iceream shop. We found The house flavours Cownadian Maple, Gooey Gooey,Wowie Cowie are the best of all, must try. cows.ca Scenic Lookout Point: Niagara on the lake: A short stop to enjoy the scenic view. Sunset Beach at St. Catherines: As the name says it all. Is the beautiful little beach especially when you want to enjoy watching Sunset. Trip to North beach: North Beach is just 1:30 hour of drive from Ajax, Ontario. We decided to stop by to Campbell’s Orchards. Again I do not do over research and over planning as I have always felt that I loose the fun of instant joy of adventure, even if it is a short trip. Just a little bit of research is more than enough to avoid any disappointments. So now in an hour’s drive we were at this farm. A trip to Campbell Orchards. Passing through a very beautiful town, cottages just off the water, beautiful little cottages and in between comes a farm. There is a little shop where you can buy baked goods, fresh fruits and vegetables. This time was for strawberries, we chose to pick strawberries. There were $4.00 for a basket, so bought 2 of them to go pick into the farm. Kids got little busy with chickens in a small area. Had to force them out to start picking so that we reach the beach on time. Very sweet, small strawberries, Saw little grapes bunches on the vineyard. Small apples and much more. But not yet rippen enough to pick. So only strawberries during the time: end of June. After that kids suddenly met two cute dogs, Ruby and Sofie, very friendly and cute little dogs. North Beach: Rocky beach on most of the area except on the last part of the beach area. Very clean water, absolutely safe for kids as shallow waters to play around for little ones too. Visit Algonquin Park: 3 hours drive from Ajax. Stopped at the view of stony Lake on the highway, for some pics and a little break from driving. Then stopped at Kawartha Diary. Kids were happy to see the size of the scoop. The raspberry thunder was the best ice icream that I liked out of 4 that we picked. At the park we stopped at the information centre, take the car permit and then to the lookout point. Nice short trail,. Excellent view. Worth walking with small kids. Then we stopped at this amazing two river beach. The washrooms were quite nice and clean. We ate our lunch on the picnic bench and then headed towards the beach. I was absolutely amazed to see this beauty of the nature. A clean lake water in midst of huge pine trees. Small fishes moving around, mussels on the rocks, long shallow area for small kids and cool clean water for all. Looked like absolute beauty of nature, cool , clam and very peaceful place. Very narrow area where only couple of benches can be found. Many trails, and missed Ragged falls, but will come back for that again. Comments are closed.
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