A dirt road ran behind the camp and across the way was an abandoned farm, the land now owned by the owner of Bass Creek Resort. Besides a decaying house, barn and rusted pieces of old farm machinery, there was a creek through the property, long lines of log fencing and large patches of dogwood [...]
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Island Warblers
Posted in birds, holidays, trails on July 25, 2007 | 18 Comments »
Claiming the Rock
Posted in birds, holidays on July 23, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Cormorants claim the rock in the afternoon Midway between our camp and the point of land across from us on Lake Manitou was a rocky shoal. We could not get too close to it in the boat, but through my binoculars I could see a variety of birds perched and feeding in the area. When [...]
Manitoulin Island
Posted in holidays, people and places on July 22, 2007 | 22 Comments »
Swing Bridge on only road to Manitoulin Island at Little Current This post may sound like a geography lesson but then, I always loved geography at school. We spent last week on Manitoulin Island, a large island at the top of Lake Huron, a seven hour drive from home. Driving north from Toronto, one passes [...]
Victoria Day
Posted in holidays on May 21, 2007 | 14 Comments »
Erected by the Imperial Orderof the Daughters of the Empire Princess of Wales Charter Berlin 1909 Our downtown city park is named Victoria Park after the long reigning monarch, Queen Victoria. Her stern, regal, matronly likeness dominates the park entrance. This community began when Mennonite settlers arrived from Pennsylvania. Afterwards, many people of German origin [...]
