Despite the 200m walk along Hockley Road from the car park to the trailhead, this stretch of the Bruce Trail is simply wonderful, especially in spring. Yes, there are more than a few ups and downs from moraine ridges into river valleys, but the trail volunteers have done their job well as the trails … More Hockley Valley Nature Reserve in Spring
It’s a section of the Bruce Trail we’ve never walked before, so we decided to hike the 7+km loops using the Main Trail, the Keyhole Side Trail and the Hamilton Brothers’ Side Trail. Spectacular! Starting from the north car park, there were a few interesting bits with some Christmas ferns and some very large cedars, … More Another great day out – this time at Nottawasaga Bluffs
It couldn’t have been a more splendid day for a hike on the Bruce Trail. Here it is early November and we are enjoying temperatures in teens and sunny days. The day started off misty and foggy and we drove north to our destination: the Kolapore Uplands of Grey County. At 70kmin size, this beautiful … More Metcalfe Rock & Duncan Crevice – a spectacular late-autumn day
Head over to the Bruce Trail Conservancy website for details of their 2016 Photo Contest. The Conservancy is providing maps of nine Nature Reserves – the focus of this year’s contest. My family and I are keen supporters of the Bruce Trail and have been for decades now. Growing up on Hamilton’s East Mountain, … More Bruce Trail Conservancy 2016 Photo Contest
May long weekend…out and about in nature…a common occurrence around the province. We started the day exploring Rockway Conservation Area on our way to Short Hills. Great potential here for river, cascade and waterfall photos – but perhaps a month or so earlier as there was not a lot of water flowing through. Disappointingly, the … More Spring in Short Hills Provincial Park
Need a getaway place where you are surrounded by winter, yet still with the comforts of home? For over 25 years, the school I teach at – St. John’s-Kilmarnock – has been running a winter week of outdoor ed. and science/ecology field research. For the past number of years it has been at Bark Lake … More Bark Lake in Winter
After visiting Backus Woods before breakfast, this morning, we were greatly anticipating getting back out in the field to visit Jackson-Gunn Old Growth Forest. Pulling to the side of the concession road, we were initially daunted by the entranceway, overgrown as it was with the trail barely visible. The yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida) was waist to … More In the Land of the Giants: Jackson-Gunn Old Growth Forest
At 6:30am we pulled into the near silent parking lot of Backus Woods. It’s a place we’ve been meaning to get to for years. The sun was just rising. Yesterday afternoon’s heavy downpour and last night’s humidity have left their mark with a soft, translucent mist in the forest. And what a forest it is – … More Backus Woods – Carolinian Canada
We have just been walking through natural grasslands with grasses and wildflowers towering over our heads. The vegetation was so thick in places, wecouldn’t see more than a few metres ahead. You may not realize it, but prior to settlement, Ontario was home to small areas of tallgrass prairie. Down in Canada’s “Deep South”, within the Windsor … More Ontario’s Prairie
…during a recent three-day “short break” holiday up to Grey County. Actually, the same trip spawned a second website: OntariosBest.ca. But more on that later. GeoPhotographica.com really began as a germ of an idea a few years ago when I was teaching Nature Photography at Mohawk College (BTW – Mohawk is an ideal place to … More All this started…
