Showcase your province's varied landscapes - Page 80

TownGuy · #**1581** Posted **Feb 18, 2019, 6:35 PM**

Some pics of Bon Echo on a camping trip from last May. Bon Echo is at the southern edge of the Canadian Shield about 2 hours southwest of Ottawa, 3 hours northeast of Toronto.

The standout of Bon Echo is Mazinaw Rock, which is a 330 ft cliff rising straight out of Lake Mazinaw.

Most of my pics are of Mazinaw Rock, here it is a various stages of sunset. This was a magical evening, we were the only ones there, everything dead still.

As if that wasn't enough this racoon came poking out of his tree crevice, ready for a night of raiding campsites

I didn't get many great pics beyond Mazinaw Rock, but this is the view from on top of it

Lots of exposed granite (I think?)

To get up there you either have to hike around the whole lake or take a canoe across, we took a canoe

Anyways, great spot, one of the most picturesque places in Southern Ontario.

ScreamingViking · #**1582** Posted **Feb 19, 2019, 10:53 PM**

Thanks for sharing! It's a beautiful park and a paddle around the lake is a must (calm waters provided); it's a pretty big lake... and deep too, 145m at its deepest along that cliff face. I camped there in the early 2000s and we didn't make it to the top of the cliff but spent lots of time in a canoe.

That's a vein of quartz within the surrounding granite of Mazinaw Rock. The yellow/brown may be iron oxide. I'm not completely sure about the purple but amethyst is a form of quartz so that could be present (looks like someone may have taken a hammer or pick-axe to it in that spot too, the wear pattern seems different).

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

Lots of exposed granite (I think?)

Laceoflight · #**1583** Posted **Mar 23, 2019, 2:08 AM**

Yamachiche QC, Main Street

TownGuy · #**1584** Posted **Mar 23, 2019, 11:20 AM**

Anyone else think that street looks ugly as hell? The repeating pattern is just way too much and it desperately needs trees.

kwoldtimer · #**1585** Posted **Mar 23, 2019, 12:36 PM**

Yes, the lack of trees is unfortunate, but the houses are beautiful, imo.

Dr Awesomesauce · #**1586** Posted **Mar 24, 2019, 2:20 AM**

Bon Echo is a real beauty. Great memories of my trip there more than 30 years ago. Perhaps it's time to go back.

If you're into quartzite (and who isn't?), you'll want to plan a trip to Killarney Provincial Park which is just south of Sudbury. Photos here.

For me, she's the pearl of the Ontario Provincial Parks system: great for car camping, and also for backcountry canoeing / hiking trips. Bit of a pain to get to but well worth it.

Loco101 · #**1587** Posted **Mar 24, 2019, 2:33 AM**

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Originally Posted by ScreamingViking

Thanks for sharing! It's a beautiful park and a paddle around the lake is a must (calm waters provided); it's a pretty big lake... and deep too, 145m at its deepest along that cliff face. I camped there in the early 2000s and we didn't make it to the top of the cliff but spent lots of time in a canoe.

That's a vein of quartz within the surrounding granite of Mazinaw Rock. The yellow/brown may be iron oxide. I'm not completely sure about the purple but amethyst is a form of quartz so that could be present (looks like someone may have taken a hammer or pick-axe to it in that spot too, the wear pattern seems different).

I'm familiar with that rock. It's quartz. We have lots of it around Timmins and here you'll often find gold in it.

Monolith · #**1588** Posted **May 8, 2019, 10:31 PM**

Richmond, British Columbia

P0000245 Garry Point Park Sunset - 30-Apr-2019 by BB, on Flickr

Architype · #**1589** Posted **May 8, 2019, 10:45 PM**

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Originally Posted by TownGuy

Anyone else think that street looks ugly as hell? The repeating pattern is just way too much and it desperately needs trees.

Just guessing, that it's so unusual for a street like this in eastern Canada to have no trees, that they may have been sacrificed at some time for street widening?

trofirhen · #**1590** Posted **May 9, 2019, 1:59 AM**

This is Mount Waddington, highest peak entirely within BC. It is in the Coast trange, overlooking a fjord, and is higher thatn Mount Robson, highest point in the Rockies, by abouyt 200 ft.
Unlike the hulking mass that Robson is Waddington itself rises into as sharp fang peak. Take a look:

https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h4...waddington.jpg

https://gripped.com/wp-content/uploa...waddington.jpg

We have swaths of forest; lush West Coast evergreen forest, Boreal Foest,
semi-arid parkland forest and even desert. Cold, winter averages of low/high -5C and 0C but spring comes in March, it becomes milder, and July and August bring temperatures of anywhere fom 30C to 43C 7 to 10 inches of rain a year.

https://proxy.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=h...desert.jpg&f=1

itom 987 · #**1591** Posted **Jun 8, 2019, 3:17 AM**

Elk Island National Park, a 30 minute drive east of Edmonton.

Elk Island National Park by Isabell Hubert, on Flickr

itom 987 · #**1592** Posted **Jun 8, 2019, 3:48 AM**

Lesser Slave Lake, Alberta

Lesser Slave Lake Provincial Park (13) by wapiti8, on Flickr

Clay Pot by Mike'N'Lil's, on Flickr

megadude · #**1593** Posted **Jun 8, 2019, 5:52 AM**

Was in Tremblant last weekend and took a few pics. First lake was in the village. Second one is Lac Superieur east of Tremblant. First day was sunny, second day was rainy and/or grey. Both days calm, which makes for nice pics.

csbvan · #**1594** Posted **Jun 8, 2019, 6:50 AM**

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Originally Posted by trofirhen

This is Mount Waddington, highest peak entirely within BC. It is in the Coast trange, overlooking a fjord, and is higher thatn Mount Robson, highest point in the Rockies, by abouyt 200 ft.
Unlike the hulking mass that Robson is Waddington itself rises into as sharp fang peak. Take a look:

https://www.worldatlas.com/r/w728-h4...waddington.jpg

https://gripped.com/wp-content/uploa...waddington.jpg
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The Coast Mountains are a wildly jagged range.