An adventure weekend on the Grand River in southwestern Ontario. A five hour canoe down river followed the next day by an extended cycle ride on the trails close to the river. Although the river is over 300 km long, our first visit was just to the area south of Cambridge to Brantford, camping in the Brant Conservation Area. Some beautiful stretches of the river north of Paris, and remarkable that only an hours drive from Toronto, we can find places like this to wind down from the city and work stresses ! Some hard work has been done on cleaning up the river and building trails, and heard from locals of recent sightings of bald eagles on this stretch of river that had not been seen in many years.