Horseshoe Lake Canoe

Here's a view from my canoe on Horseshoe Lake.

Yesterday I did an all 'water access' campaign tour of Horseshoe Lake with the old cedar strip canoe. The water part was fairly easy. The 2 km portage down Rankin Lake Road and Hwy 69 was the not so easy part.

So begins the 2 km canoe portage to Horseshoe Lake which I almost
instantly regretted. Such are the small scale heroics of an
aspiring Seguin township councillor.

Portage 'action' photos aren't as pretty as official portraits.
That life jacket phrase pretty much captures my state of mind.

After carrying the canoe on my shoulders for 500 metres or so,
I would set it down and take a rest. Looking at this photo, I flash
back three years...

Another of my cedar strip contraptions rests at the side of
a New Brunswick highway. In 2007 I built this velomobile and cycled
it from Victoria, B.C. to St. John's Nfld., talking to kids about
Global Warming along the way.

Back in Seguin, I make another canoe portage stop where Hwy 69
turns into Rankin Lake Road with a northbound ramp onto Hwy 400.

I make it to Horseshoe Lake's municipal beach!
Then I 'take five' - maybe ten.

I didn't get to all of Horseshoe Lake's many water access
properties, but I did try. Instead of portaging the canoe
back along the roads, I decided to take the Easy Route home
by navigating Blackstone Creek. But, that's another adventure....