08/07: Port Elgin Rail Trail
Category: General
Posted by: The Agnew Family
The rail trail that runs thru Walkerton continues north to Port Elgin. It's about 35 kilometers from Walkerton to Port Elgin so we decided to trailer the ATVs to Port Elgin and ride the 18 kilometers of trail that goes south west of Port Elgin. And guess what --- there are geocaches along the trail.
One of the caches was beside a farm field. These guys were warily curious about us.
Our first "storey teller" geocache. Instead of signing a log you wrote a paragraph in a book following the story line started by other geocachers.
The end of the road. The rail line originally went from Port Elgin to Bruce Nuclear Generating Station when it was the Douglas Point Reactor, an earlier version of the CANDU design. Construction began in 1960; was operational in 1967; and was shut down in 1984.
There were lots of wild flowers along the trail.
After Ed loaded his ATV on the trailer he noticed a liquid dripping from his ATV. After some further investigation he determined that his ATV was leaking gas. Luckily, there is a fuel shut off valve so he was able to stop the leak.
One of the caches was beside a farm field. These guys were warily curious about us.
Our first "storey teller" geocache. Instead of signing a log you wrote a paragraph in a book following the story line started by other geocachers.
The end of the road. The rail line originally went from Port Elgin to Bruce Nuclear Generating Station when it was the Douglas Point Reactor, an earlier version of the CANDU design. Construction began in 1960; was operational in 1967; and was shut down in 1984.
There were lots of wild flowers along the trail.
After Ed loaded his ATV on the trailer he noticed a liquid dripping from his ATV. After some further investigation he determined that his ATV was leaking gas. Luckily, there is a fuel shut off valve so he was able to stop the leak.