Monday 12 November 2012

Wasaga Beach Ontario

Sun setting over Wasaga beach Ontario I have been informed that this beach is the largest fresh water beach in Canada, it just goes on for miles
Im over here to do some sight seeing and kayaking but all the outfitters so far are closed for the winter season, so on goes the sight seeing such a beutiful place.

Badlands Ontario Canada


Badlands” is a geologic term for an area of soft rock devoid of vegetation and soil cover that has become molded into a rolling landscape of rounded hills and gullies. Such areas are rare in Ontario and this is one of the best examples. They exhibit the reddish hue of the Queenston Shale that forms them; the iron oxide in the shale produces this colour. The narrow greenish bands that can be seen throughout the shale are due to the change of red iron oxide to green iron oxide brought on by the circulating groundwater. The relatively soft shale is essentially clay and is easily eroded by water. This site was acquired by the Ontario Heritage Foundation in 2000 and is under the care of the Bruce Trail Association.

 The Cheltenham Badlands is one of the best examples of badland topography in Ontario, making it an Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI). Around the turn of the century, land clearing and livestock grazing caused the erosion of the underlying red shale, leaving a hummocky network of exposed trenched gullies on the lower slopes of the Niagara Escarpment.







Monday 5 November 2012

Canada

Just at york station heading to London to catch my flight over to Canada.
Hoping to get some kayaking on and around some of the lakes.
My base will be Aliston west of Toronto. If anybody from Canada looking at the blog can advise on places of interest it would be much welcomed.
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Saturday 3 November 2012

By the Sea

A walk along the coast of Loch Dunvegan on the north of Skye to a pretty little beach you can see in the distance called Coral Beach


On the coast around Arisaig a dry but windy day beach combing


learn to paraglide at Active Edge & Dean Crosby

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