Hi Christina.. I’ve been following your videos for a while now and I thought I’d let you know that you were one of my inspirations to get back out into nature.. I’ve been a single dad raising my 3 kids alone for the last 10 years or so. Now that they’re grown I’ve finally been able to take my first backcountry trip in 20 years.. I did a solo canoe trip for 5 days in Algonquin park on whitefish, rock , pen and caryngale lake back in September this year.. this was my first ever solo canoe trip so there was a lot of trial and error ( and a few blunders.. lol) but i had the time of my life!! I’m going again next week .. I’ve fallen in love with Algonquin and I hope to go 2-3 times a year.. thank you so much for your videos, they insipired me, despite my age , to do the things I love to do. The peace and solitude I found on my trip brought me back to ground level and I will never forget it.. thank you so much again for your videos. Your viewers love to follow you on your adventures., may you have MANY more!🔥⛺️🚣🏼♂️🙂
Jeff Mcilroy omg. Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. You actually brought me to tears. I’m so happy that you have found a lost love and you are enjoying nature and peace once again. I’m so glad that I had a part in that for you. I am truly grateful for your kind words and your support. I hope you have many many more adventures to come! Happy camping!
CamperChristina.com your very welcome Christina, your appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature and your sense of adventure was contagious for me., I think I have the adventure bug now too! lol. I’m actually just dehydrating some meals for next weeks trip right now. I realized very quickly (on my first portage) the importance of keeping the weight of my food and equipment down. Lol. I brought enough food for three people and ended up packing half of it out. I took WAY too much stuff with me. Hopefully my portages will be a little easier this time. Thank you so much again.. I can tell you love your trips. I hope you get to see some moose soon!
Beautiful overniter Christina ! You couldn`t have asked for more, the weather. looked great as well. Thank You for sharing your video, and bringing us along Christina ! ATB
Hiiii!!! I was was watching your video a few days ago before I went and while I was there I realized that I was at the same site!!! I just spent the last 2 nights there. It's a beautiful spot.
lol yes it was. And thank you. I’m so happy to hear you love watching my videos. There will be some very cold adventures coming up soon. Just waiting for some more snow to come in so I can get out into the backcountry. Been working on revamping my UA-cam channel while I’ve been stuck at home waiting. 😊 please stay healthy.
Great video Christina! Can't believe how cold the mornings gets up there in August!!! BTW...when I fish in my sit in kayak, I just put the pole between my legs and paddle... a great way to troll!!!
Thanks for sharing! Great capture of the beaver's tail-slap! Once, some years ago, I was fishing in Algonquin (on Happy Isle Lake), when I heard a mysterious creature moving in the bush - just like you! After setting up my zoom lens, and waiting patiently for what felt like more than an hour, I saw the creature responsible... it was the guy from the next camp over, gathering firewood. :)
Bwahahaha best. Thank you for the giggle. I have a video of a trip I did by kayak last summer on kiosk lake and there’s a slow motion clip of the beaver slapping its tail a few times. I was a lot closer and it’s a much better video of the beaver in action. Just in case you want to see it. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Welcome and thanks for subscribing. Lol hope you have a lot of time. Lol. There are a lot of videos. Let me know if you’re looking for anything specific. Cheers!
Wow beautiful. We have been camping at Algonquin park for past nine years. Never portaging usually staying at lake of two rivers. New friend. Thanks for sharing. Love the view.
Domestic Diva 76 thanks so much for watching! There’s so many great places to camp in Algonquin Park. Try somewhere different sometime. You might be surprised. 😊😊😊 hope to hear from you again soon. Cheers !
Sweety try a panther Martin or a pink wedding ring or chartreuse and you can try spinning glow diffrent colours with a worm you should do really well. If you want the fish to come off the hook very easy with out causing damage to the fish use a single barbed hook and use a pair of pliers to squeeze the barb down flat . But keep your rod tip up if your using barbells hooks . Your a real trooper girl I'm even going to ask Santa Clause for one just like you hahaha . Stay safe have fun love your videos great job girl .Wayde
Hi im planing on going there next week...is it a big lake coz I'm not a experience paddler.. and im wondering if I should do this or not... any information will help.. thank you..and i love the video.. have nice day...
Yes kiosk is a pretty big lake and can get rough and windy depending on the weather. Maybe stay at the campground and go paddling instead so you can get more experience first? Please be safe. Cheers
Great video! My friends and I have been on that same site, we were exploring and decided to stop there for lunch and a swim. The rocks were great for jumping off of. We will be there again for a few days starting aug 6
Great video Christina, its been years since I camped inner Algonquin and you make me want to go back. I'm off to Martin river the last week of October with power boat due to all the gear we need for late season but I can't wait until summer and get out on the kayak again. Thanks for the video I will be following you and your adventures.
Hello Christina, thank you for another wonderful tagalong. This outing was exceptional. You always choose some really neat areas to go to. I'm still waiting patiently for your outdoor cook book. Please be sure to save me a copy. All the best of good things to you. 🤗
girl you need some mustard on that thing! and pickles :) mmmmmm LOL. your vidoes are great to watch. i am watching these during the COVID pandemic and really missing algonquin. hoping this summer is still a go for it. it would be awful with no camping 2020 :(
Lol. Get this! There’s mustard in the burger! Also ketchup, garlic, onion powder and a whole bunch of deliciousness LOL I’m so glad you are enjoying my videos! I’m so sorry for the late reply. Sometimes UA-cam doesn’t tell me I get comments. Hope you are staying healthy and you get to go on your trips this summer! Fingers crossed.
Awesome video and beautiful spot. My friend and I are planning to go camping in two weeks i’m searching for a spot like this so we can do some fishing. It’s not easy to find a spot I’m having hard time searching especially for the first time. I hope you can share some information that would help me out. Thank you 🙏
Hi Jack. These campsites have been booked for months and months. Algonquin Park is busier than I’ve ever seen it in my life. Everyone is going camping right now because they can’t go anywhere else and there are a lot of people in the backcountry doing things they shouldn’t be and making it an unpleasant place for the people who do it all the time. I have no tips to share with you as I don’t go where others do right now. I drive five hours north from Muskoka to camp right now because I don’t want to be backcountry camping with hundreds of people. I hope you find a spot but I’m sorry I won’t be able to help you. Best of luck on your search.
This is up in my neck of the woods! I've been to Kiosk many times but never out on the lake yet. Looks really nice! I will have to get out there one day!
You are good at relaxing... just not at the last day of the trip. Thats one reason why I like your videos, but of couse also for all your canoeing (inspirational for me) and the wonderful scenery. That beaver sequence was pretty nice, I have seen beavers a few times but never for that amounth of time and that almost "show off" slapping the water . I guess you was an intruder of his territory but they must be used to people there ?
Wow! My favorite vid of yours. Probably because my goal in camping is to get to destination, and relax. Like you did. Read, fish, paddle, lay around. So good for the soul. Question, do you prefer kayaking or canoeing? I have done both over the years. I prefer kayaking.
+Kasey Tyler thank you. As far as the actual paddling goes, I prefer kayaking, but as far as going camping goes in the back country I prefer canoeing because I can portage and go to spots where I know other people aren’t . I drove three hours to get to kiosk so that I would not have to worry about noisy neighbours while camping. there are few places that I can take my kayak and get that type of peace and tranquillity except for Georgian bay which is difficult to solo unless the weather is just right. Have a great day.
Did you see a beaver dam? I was kayaking in Newfoundland in an area with a rocky shoreline, and a beaver startled me when he jumped off a rock and he swam around for a while. But there was no beaver dam in sight anywhere. I wondered if they ever made a den amidst rocks?
+stymiedagain I did not in this case but sometimes they are under water. There is a swampy area close by and it could’ve also been in there. I don’t recalling ever seeing one amidst rocks myself but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t exist. Lol. Thanks for watching. Cheers !
cj p the campsite is on the actual lake, technically a backcountry site. They don’t have numbers that I know of. It is across from the access and towards where the portage is into maple.
One doesn't do a one day pop in trip to Algonquin and expect to catch a speckle trout especially in August and especially on that daredevil spoon. Now kioskkokwi is rated for speckles but it would be many moon ago that a speckle was caught there.Now i know of two places where there is a good chance to get a speckle in Aug but we're talking a 2 hr trip in and near 2 km portaging .And i'm talking using light spinning gear as is done in the spring. The one was Ralph Bice's favorite lake ,not his namesake ,formerly Butt L. His recollection of the fishing in that lake around WWl would make you soil yourself. To boot they are the best tempered specks in the park. Great surface strikers with a dependable witching hr i can set my watch by.
@@CamperChristina Sorry for the bad news . But over fishing has ruined the kind of trip you wished to have. Now maybe the guys in cartoppers trolling for lakers with wire line might get the odd speckle. But on the stringer it goes , leaving the experience of a beautiful fish wanting for the rest of us.
Alex S i’m sorry but there wasn’t any bad news that you gave me. It wasn’t a fishing trip and I wasn’t heartbroken over not catching a trout. I didn’t expect to really catch one and was very happy with what I did catch. I caught a 5lb laker over Labor Day. Lol. All good. Have a great day. Cheers
@@CamperChristina Well there is nothing wrong with a 5 lb laker .Never got one that big myself.But i don't target them in particular. Now this may be heresy to your fishing advisors but i use the same lure , rod/reel/line for everything from bass to pickeral to brook trout. been successful for decades .
Yes, there, are lots from what I hear and see on facebook. I have never ever seen a bear in the backcountry. I have only ever seen them car camping. I try and go to places that aren't overrun with tourists and with people who don't know how to protect their food. I protect my food well and have never had an issue so I guess i"m doing something right. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I trip to Algonquin every year, have never seen bears except for the year we went into the park at Magnetawan Lake, 3 separate occasions we saw them on that 5 day trip. But they ran as soon as they spotted us. As long as you are properly storing your food and keeping your site clean I don't think you'd run into them. I would like to try solo as well...so peaceful.
@@CamperChristina I guided in the park back from about 1967 to the mid 1980's and would see lots of bears. Often on portages and campsites. Some bears had their own routine, checking campsites for food and you predict to when it would show up on any given day. No bad experiences but seeing a bear ahead when under a canoe looking at you when on a trail can be a little concerning.. I passed through Kiosk once on a trip from North Bay to Barry's Bay ..there used to be a sawmill there..
Hi Christina.. I’ve been following your videos for a while now and I thought I’d let you know that you were one of my inspirations to get back out into nature.. I’ve been a single dad raising my 3 kids alone for the last 10 years or so. Now that they’re grown I’ve finally been able to take my first backcountry trip in 20 years.. I did a solo canoe trip for 5 days in Algonquin park on whitefish, rock , pen and caryngale lake back in September this year.. this was my first ever solo canoe trip so there was a lot of trial and error ( and a few blunders.. lol) but i had the time of my life!! I’m going again next week .. I’ve fallen in love with Algonquin and I hope to go 2-3 times a year.. thank you so much for your videos, they insipired me, despite my age , to do the things I love to do. The peace and solitude I found on my trip brought me back to ground level and I will never forget it.. thank you so much again for your videos. Your viewers love to follow you on your adventures., may you have MANY more!🔥⛺️🚣🏼♂️🙂
Jeff Mcilroy omg. Thank you so much for this wonderful comment. You actually brought me to tears. I’m so happy that you have found a lost love and you are enjoying nature and peace once again. I’m so glad that I had a part in that for you. I am truly grateful for your kind words and your support. I hope you have many many more adventures to come! Happy camping!
CamperChristina.com your very welcome Christina, your appreciation for the beauty and wonder of nature and your sense of adventure was contagious for me., I think I have the adventure bug now too! lol. I’m actually just dehydrating some meals for next weeks trip right now. I realized very quickly (on my first portage) the importance of keeping the weight of my food and equipment down. Lol. I brought enough food for three people and ended up packing half of it out. I took WAY too much stuff with me. Hopefully my portages will be a little easier this time. Thank you so much again.. I can tell you love your trips. I hope you get to see some moose soon!
Jeff Mcilroy thanks Jeff. There is always something new to learn. Maybe tomorrow ? Have s good trip. Cheers !
Lovely that’s my type of weekend relaxing.
That was fantastic! Thank you
Thank you for watching. I’m glad you enjoyed it. Cheers!
@@CamperChristina and thank you for posting :) I've been there in the past, and we have a couple nights booked at Kiosk, in June. Can't wait!
That looked like a great relaxing trip. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much for watching. 😘
Beautiful overniter Christina !
You couldn`t have asked for more, the weather. looked great as well.
Thank You for sharing your video, and bringing us along Christina ! ATB
Thank you Jack!
Hi Christina , very peaceful and a and amazing site... You looked very relaxed reading your book. Take care and thanks for bring us along..
Thanks so much for watching Jim! Cheers!
Hiiii!!! I was was watching your video a few days ago before I went and while I was there I realized that I was at the same site!!! I just spent the last 2 nights there. It's a beautiful spot.
That’s very cool. Thanks for sharing. Cheers!
Another great video Christina! What a beautiful lake! Nice fishing too😊🐟🍁
Cathy Remchuk thank you !!!
Thank you for posting and sharing, letting us enjoy the last vestiges of summer. Always love your sound track overlays, CamperChristina.
That beaver was really cool! I love watching your videos. I can always feel how cold it is up there. Texan here with thin blood!
lol yes it was. And thank you. I’m so happy to hear you love watching my videos. There will be some very cold adventures coming up soon. Just waiting for some more snow to come in so I can get out into the backcountry. Been working on revamping my UA-cam channel while I’ve been stuck at home waiting. 😊 please stay healthy.
Great video Christina! Can't believe how cold the mornings gets up there in August!!! BTW...when I fish in my sit in kayak, I just put the pole between my legs and paddle... a great way to troll!!!
Nice trip. I am so looking forward to doing a similar trip this coming summer. Your food looked really good!
Thank you so much Carol. Let me know if I can help further. Cheers!
Thanks for sharing! Great capture of the beaver's tail-slap!
Once, some years ago, I was fishing in Algonquin (on Happy Isle Lake), when I heard a mysterious creature moving in the bush - just like you! After setting up my zoom lens, and waiting patiently for what felt like more than an hour, I saw the creature responsible... it was the guy from the next camp over, gathering firewood. :)
Bwahahaha best. Thank you for the giggle. I have a video of a trip I did by kayak last summer on kiosk lake and there’s a slow motion clip of the beaver slapping its tail a few times. I was a lot closer and it’s a much better video of the beaver in action. Just in case you want to see it. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
What a beautiful area, thank you for bringing us along, and sharing your journey. Be well my friend.
+Hatch61 thank you so much for coming along. Have a great day! Cheers!
New subscriber. Can’t wait to catch up on all your videos!
Welcome and thanks for subscribing. Lol hope you have a lot of time. Lol. There are a lot of videos. Let me know if you’re looking for anything specific. Cheers!
Wow beautiful. We have been camping at Algonquin park for past nine years. Never portaging usually staying at lake of two rivers. New friend. Thanks for sharing. Love the view.
Domestic Diva 76 thanks so much for watching! There’s so many great places to camp in Algonquin Park. Try somewhere different sometime. You might be surprised. 😊😊😊 hope to hear from you again soon. Cheers !
Awesome video as always , love your videos
+sue zaple thank you
Sweety try a panther Martin or a pink wedding ring or chartreuse and you can try spinning glow diffrent colours with a worm you should do really well. If you want the fish to come off the hook very easy with out causing damage to the fish use a single barbed hook and use a pair of pliers to squeeze the barb down flat . But keep your rod tip up if your using barbells hooks . Your a real trooper girl I'm even going to ask Santa Clause for one just like you hahaha . Stay safe have fun love your videos great job girl .Wayde
Thank you for watching my video. I’m glad you found one you enjoyed. Cheers.
Hi im planing on going there next week...is it a big lake coz I'm not a experience paddler.. and im wondering if I should do this or not... any information will help.. thank you..and i love the video.. have nice day...
Yes kiosk is a pretty big lake and can get rough and windy depending on the weather. Maybe stay at the campground and go paddling instead so you can get more experience first? Please be safe. Cheers
@@CamperChristina thank you I think i will start with that and see how it goes. Thanks again for ur advice. Have a nice day.
Camped at one of the islands on the east end of the lake back in 2013'ish with the family. Also a nicely remote area.
yes, I've camped at that end also. Thanks for watching! Cheers!
Great video! My friends and I have been on that same site, we were exploring and decided to stop there for lunch and a swim. The rocks were great for jumping off of. We will be there again for a few days starting aug 6
What a beautiful spot and that sunrise was spectacular.
+Maine Nature and Photography thank you !
Great video Christina, its been years since I camped inner Algonquin and you make me want to go back. I'm off to Martin river the last week of October with power boat due to all the gear we need for late season but I can't wait until summer and get out on the kayak again. Thanks for the video I will be following you and your adventures.
Lee Lantern thank you lee. Have a safe trip !!! Cheers
Hello Christina, thank you for another wonderful tagalong. This outing was exceptional. You always choose some really neat areas to go to. I'm still waiting patiently for your outdoor cook book. Please be sure to save me a copy. All the best of good things to you. 🤗
+Ronald Rose lol thank you Ronald. Cheers !
One of my favorite videos of yours!👊🏻
Lorri Miller wow. Thank you !
girl you need some mustard on that thing! and pickles :) mmmmmm LOL. your vidoes are great to watch. i am watching these during the COVID pandemic and really missing algonquin. hoping this summer is still a go for it. it would be awful with no camping 2020 :(
Lol. Get this! There’s mustard in the burger! Also ketchup, garlic, onion powder and a whole bunch of deliciousness LOL I’m so glad you are enjoying my videos! I’m so sorry for the late reply. Sometimes UA-cam doesn’t tell me I get comments. Hope you are staying healthy and you get to go on your trips this summer! Fingers crossed.
Awesome video and beautiful spot. My friend and I are planning to go camping in two weeks i’m searching for a spot like this so we can do some fishing. It’s not easy to find a spot I’m having hard time searching especially for the first time. I hope you can share some information that would help me out. Thank you 🙏
Hi Jack. These campsites have been booked for months and months. Algonquin Park is busier than I’ve ever seen it in my life. Everyone is going camping right now because they can’t go anywhere else and there are a lot of people in the backcountry doing things they shouldn’t be and making it an unpleasant place for the people who do it all the time. I have no tips to share with you as I don’t go where others do right now. I drive five hours north from Muskoka to camp right now because I don’t want to be backcountry camping with hundreds of people. I hope you find a spot but I’m sorry I won’t be able to help you. Best of luck on your search.
Thank you 🙏
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Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
hi, christina, took me a while to catch up to you, youv'e a lot of video's, keep up the good work, they get better with each one you do , !
This is up in my neck of the woods! I've been to Kiosk many times but never out on the lake yet. Looks really nice! I will have to get out there one day!
You are good at relaxing... just not at the last day of the trip. Thats one reason why I like your videos, but of couse also for all your canoeing (inspirational for me) and the wonderful scenery. That beaver sequence was pretty nice, I have seen beavers a few times but never for that amounth of time and that almost "show off" slapping the water . I guess you was an intruder of his territory but they must be used to people there ?
Bo Nilsson thank bo. Cheers!
Wow! My favorite vid of yours. Probably because my goal in camping is to get to destination, and relax. Like you did. Read, fish, paddle, lay around. So good for the soul. Question, do you prefer kayaking or canoeing? I have done both over the years. I prefer kayaking.
+Kasey Tyler thank you. As far as the actual paddling goes, I prefer kayaking, but as far as going camping goes in the back country I prefer canoeing because I can portage and go to spots where I know other people aren’t . I drove three hours to get to kiosk so that I would not have to worry about noisy neighbours while camping. there are few places that I can take my kayak and get that type of peace and tranquillity except for Georgian bay which is difficult to solo unless the weather is just right. Have a great day.
Did you see a beaver dam? I was kayaking in Newfoundland in an area with a rocky shoreline, and a beaver startled me when he jumped off a rock and he swam around for a while. But there was no beaver dam in sight anywhere. I wondered if they ever made a den amidst rocks?
+stymiedagain I did not in this case but sometimes they are under water. There is a swampy area close by and it could’ve also been in there. I don’t recalling ever seeing one amidst rocks myself but I suppose that doesn’t necessarily mean they don’t exist. Lol. Thanks for watching. Cheers !
What campsite number is this in kiosk? cant find it anywhere lol
cj p the campsite is on the actual lake, technically a backcountry site. They don’t have numbers that I know of. It is across from the access and towards where the portage is into maple.
that beaver may have dropped that tree you heard...
hahaha, silly beaver! Thanks for watching!
Look like rock bass :)
Thank you! Cheers!
One doesn't do a one day pop in trip to Algonquin and expect to catch a speckle trout especially in August and especially on that daredevil spoon. Now kioskkokwi is rated for speckles but it would be many moon ago that a speckle was caught there.Now i know of two places where there is a good chance to get a speckle in Aug but we're talking a 2 hr trip in and near 2 km portaging .And i'm talking using light spinning gear as is done in the spring. The one was Ralph Bice's favorite lake ,not his namesake ,formerly Butt L. His recollection of the fishing in that lake around WWl would make you soil yourself. To boot they are the best tempered specks in the park. Great surface strikers with a dependable witching hr i can set my watch by.
Alex S cool. Thanks for the info. Cheers
@@CamperChristina Sorry for the bad news . But over fishing has ruined the kind of trip you wished to have. Now maybe the guys in cartoppers trolling for lakers with wire line might get the odd speckle. But on the stringer it goes , leaving the experience of a beautiful fish wanting for the rest of us.
Alex S i’m sorry but there wasn’t any bad news that you gave me. It wasn’t a fishing trip and I wasn’t heartbroken over not catching a trout. I didn’t expect to really catch one and was very happy with what I did catch. I caught a 5lb laker over Labor Day. Lol. All good. Have a great day. Cheers
@@CamperChristina Well there is nothing wrong with a 5 lb laker .Never got one that big myself.But i don't target them in particular. Now this may be heresy to your fishing advisors but i use the same lure , rod/reel/line for everything from bass to pickeral to brook trout. been successful for decades .
Are there any bears in Algonquin? I would love to do what you did in this video! To me; the perfect 24 hours!
Yes, there, are lots from what I hear and see on facebook. I have never ever seen a bear in the backcountry. I have only ever seen them car camping. I try and go to places that aren't overrun with tourists and with people who don't know how to protect their food. I protect my food well and have never had an issue so I guess i"m doing something right. Thanks for watching and commenting.
I trip to Algonquin every year, have never seen bears except for the year we went into the park at Magnetawan Lake, 3 separate occasions we saw them on that 5 day trip. But they ran as soon as they spotted us. As long as you are properly storing your food and keeping your site clean I don't think you'd run into them. I would like to try solo as well...so peaceful.
@@CamperChristina I guided in the park back from about 1967 to the mid 1980's and would see lots of bears. Often on portages and campsites. Some bears had their own routine, checking campsites for food and you predict to when it would show up on any given day. No bad experiences but seeing a bear ahead when under a canoe looking at you when on a trail can be a little concerning.. I passed through Kiosk once on a trip from North Bay to Barry's Bay ..there used to be a sawmill there..
There are bears, isn’t it generally bad to cook at the campsite at all due to the scent lingering especially while hiking solo?
Wait a minute? Wasn't there supposed to be.... Darn! Lol
+Kasey Tyler lol
Try yum dingers for lots of bass rig it wacky rigged. Just u tube it what's that u say.....
+bud Tate 👍
Dingers not fingers lol
Too good looking to be a troll....... : )
Thanks, I think? Sorry, not sure what you mean? LOL.
@@CamperChristina13.44 mark, your friend said to troll (while fishing). : )
OH, hahahaha. Thanks! Sorry, Cheers! :)
wow very hot