Down The Gut
The Gut is a geological feature north of Havelock. The Crowe river drops down a series of steps through a narrow gorge. This is an HDR taken about a hundred feet downstream from the top falls.
Exploring a Mushroom Cap – Algonquin Park
I recently took a 72km hike on the Algonquin Western Uplands Backpacking Trail. The first day was pretty much near 100% humidity, so close up forest photos was the norm for that day.
Here, I found a slug exploring one of the forest’s many mushrooms.
A Clear View of Clearview
Clearview Township, just outside Collingwood. Happened upon this scene as I parked at the Bruce Trail trailhead off 10 concession …. yup, pursuing yet another geocache!
I loved the colours here, from the wheat to that yellow flax and the blue sky.
Singhampton Fern
This was a rare experiment for me, while visiting the Singhampton Caves and Standing Rock along the Bruce Trail near Collingwood, Ontario. The fern was in a portion of the caves where almost no wind was to be found, and that let me setup for an HDR photo where the sunbeam was hitting it. Even with no movement at all, the sheer amount of light difference between the cave and that sunlit fern was quite the challenge to get right. The spider web was a bonus.
This photo is also my first foray into using Aperture on my Macbook. I’ve had enough little problems with Lightroom and my external drive (lost work!) that I’m going ahead and trying the “Mac” software instead.
The reason for my visit was the geocache in the area named Eagles Nest; Cavern Walk.
Looking Back from The Crack
This is a view looking back at the LaCloche Backpacking trail from The Crack at Killarney Provincial Park. This isn’t quite the top but we’re pretty close to entering the actual “Crack”. We hiked here from the Killarney Lake/Kakakise Lake portage trail, where we left the canoes.
OSA Lake Portage
On the O.S.A. Lake end of the O.S.A to Killarney Lake Portage (the shorter of the two). Here, our canoes are sitting at the portage just before we put them in the water to paddle to the cache.
George Lake Sunset from Campsite 63
Killarney Provincial Park is a fantastic place, chock full of impressive sights. Most of the park is accessed by paddling or hiking the 73km LaCloche/Silouette backpacking trail. The beauty is not all remote though. This is what sunset looks like from site 63 at the George Lake campground. My car is about 100 feet away from this spot.
Silver Peak Falls
A waterfall on Silver Peak, Killarney Provincial Park. To get here, was a one hour paddle across Bell lake, then a ~4km hike or so … up Ontario’s third highest peak. This was part of our geoaching adventure trip with the BFL Crew
George Lake from Freeland Lake Portage
This was taken on the Sunday of our Killarney Park geocaching trip. We sort of stretched the daylight hours a bit and almost ended up paddling in the dark!
Heading back to camp, we were getting very close to sunset. This is the view we were treated to as we left the portage from Freeland Lake.
Killarney Light Station Rocks
It’s been a while since I did the landscape HDR thing. Well, this past weekend I took 4 days to go geocaching in one of Ontario’s most scenic places – Killarney Provincial Park.
I took many, many photos and HDRs and, well, I’m gonna be a while processing them all.
This is near the Light Station south of the Killarney town site. While it’s not part of the Park, it’s a very scenic location to visit as well. Be sure to check out the Tar Vats trail if you visit.