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.

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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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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SKYE

 BEAUTIFUL SUNRISE OVER THE COMMANDO MONUMENT NEAR SPEAN BRIDGE

 LUNCH STOP

 DUSK

Skye this week

 LOOOKING OVER TO THE CULLINS FROM ORD

 EARLY MORNING ON LOCH DUNVEGAN

BELOW SUNSET OVER INVERGARRY ON THE WAY BACK



Skye

JUST SOME PICTURES ON THE BEAUTIFUL ISLE OF SKYE

Highland

Just passing through Glen Coe and Ballalhulish. Great views and weather calm and warm for an late October day
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Ingleborough

Left work looked like a nice evening so decided to have a night walk up ingleborough got to the Yorkshire Dales about 1910 and set off from just above the hill inn on the ingleton Hawes rd. Low mist to start with then cleared to show a complete array of the constellations.
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Pen Y Gent Yorkshire Dales

Tuesday 2nd October, I did arrange to go caving with a couple of friends today but with the rainfall sodden ground and more rain on the way common sense prevailed to stay out of active caves in this kind of weather. The old saying it will always be there another day.

 Great views from the Trig Point Looking East.

 Enjoying every moment

 The mist closing in Wet Wet Wet

 On the way back down a little respite from the rain and mist, looking down the track that leads to Helwith Bridge and Bracken Bottom.

So off I trotted a quick walk up Pen Y Gent from the Halton Gill road. Low cloud driving rain a magnificent day for a walk on the hills, all to myself besides a couple of other nutters who like myself like days like this.