Killarney 2

Like everyone who visits Killarney, last night we ate fish and chips from Herbert Fisheries converted school bus.

 It was raining this morning, and the forecast called for thunderstorms, so we decided to spend another night in the slip at the Sportsman's Inn.  Pam read in the town brochure that there was a lighthouse that we could walk to.  There was a road out to it, and a scenic trail "short cut."  We asked the one of the dock boys how long it took to walk to the lighthouse.  "30 minutes."  We checked the weather radar, and decided we had time for the "short cut."  I packed all the essential stuff (I thought) in my back pack and we found the beginning of the trail.  The first half (30 minutes) of the trail was through a low swampy wetland--right after a rain.  The one item I forgot to put in the backpack was bug spray, and we had both forgotten to put some on before we left.  So you might imagine how much fun that was.
The second half of the hour hike was spent climbing up and down rocks.

The trail was marked on the rocks with painted arrows.

Some of the arrows pointed off the edge of a cliff.  Either this was an effort to reduce the number of tourists or they hired my pal Jack Hale to make their path.  (Jack was our non-drinking "safety officer" on a trip to Kentucky Lake.  He said he knew a short cut from the restaurant back to the marina.  "Follow me boys" Jack said as he stepped off the edge of a cliff.)

We climbed up and down the rocks, and finally found the water, but still a ways to go to the lighthouse.

 After over an hour, we made it to the lighthouse.

It's overlooking Georgian Bay.

There was a road back to town, and even thought we were told the trail was a short cut, and it took us an hour to get there, we thought we would prefer to walk a little further and not feed the mosquitoes.  The trip back on the road took us 25 minutes.