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Tag: ontario

Sleeping Giant

I was up in the Geraldton area for a few days. It should be the last time for awhile as I have turned the site over to one of my junior techs. I always stop in at the Terry Fox Memorial whenever I go up.

The Sleeping Giant.

There was still a lot of ice on the lakes, but the snow was gone. A map of the flight path from Toronto to Thunder Bay. Geraldton is another 3.5 hour drive north-east of Thunder Bay.


At Least They Use the Crosswalks

After breakfast we headed over to the Land Registry office in Kenora to find some land owner information. As we pulled up to one of the major streets there was some four legged pedestrians causing heads to turn. This pair of doe and buck started in between the crosswalk lines when they started to cross the street.

They stopped for a few leaves.

Checked out the Boston Pizza window.

And then headed back onto the street.

Made a few cars wait while they decided to cross again.

We drove over a 1000 km’s on northern Ontario back roads and didn’t see one sign of wildlife. Now realize you don’t have to leave the town, they’ll come to you.

Then they finished with some flowers from the bed in front of the ServiceOntario building.

My drive over two days. A. Winnipeg, B. Kenora, C. McIntosh, D. Quibell, E. Vermillion Bay, F. Kenora, G. Grassy Narrows, H. Winnipeg


Northwestern Ontario

I had a quick trip up to northern Ontario this week for work. I was in the Vermillion Bay area, between Kenora and Dryden.

 

I was reviewing some potential new sites. This was an abandoned building up near McIntosh.

The north end of Canyon Lake.

My ride for the two days was a Ford Edge. Some of the roads we traveled, weren’t really roads.

There were giant tadpoles in a flooded area of the road.

This is probably a no-no in my car rental agreement. The car had a back up camera which came in handy, other places I was making 10 point turns.

Caught at the CNR line just west of Vermillion Bay by a freight train.


Kinghurst

I was out to the Owen Sound area for a couple of days, should be my last time for awhile. With a hiring of new techs back in February, some of my travel should decrease. Not necessarily the number of days, but the number of sites. There were a lot of garter snakes around the site.

A rusted out gas can, it continues to sit in the grass as it provides a habitat for the snakes.

We had a good day of weather.


Mount Brydges Area

This week I was down in the London area for a couple of days. I was doing a site audit of our site near Mount Brydges. It is located at the Longwoods Road Conservation Area.

Found this old tractor growing out of the ground.


Huntsville Area

I was up in the Huntsville area for a couple of days for work this week. We have a site near Sprucedale, ON.

Most of the leaves had already turned and fallen off. This is Buck Lake along the Ravenscliffe Rd out of Huntsville.

Some mailboxes at the corner of Stisted Rd and Concession 4.


Kinghurst Forest Nature Reserve

I was up in the Owen Sound area on Tuesday and Wednesday this week. The forecast earlier in the week didn’t look promising, but I managed to miss the rain on Tuesday morning and was back home before the rain started on Wednesday. Our site is located at the Kinghurst Forest Nature Reserve located near Chatsworth, Ontario.

Almost every step you take results in a frog jumping out of the way. The operator was telling me that in the spring, there were snapping turtles all over the place laying their eggs, only to have the raccoons come and dig them up.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

At the end of the day I was able to take a walk around some of the property.

The Kinghurst Reserve has been designated as a provincially signific Life Science Area of Natural and Scientific Interest (ANSI).

There is a section of forest where many of the trees are 250-300 years old, and tower over 100 feet in height.

There are many woodland ponds, open bogs and swamp forests.

Some early fall colours.

Some hard work by an overly ambitious beaver.

Some of the swamp forest.

An old well that still works.

Moss on rock.

There are still many apple trees from the time it was an active farm.

Harrison Lake is located across from the reserve.


Chalk River Site Visit

I did a short trip up to our Chalk River, Ontario site this week to fix some equipment. The site is located on the AECL property, security is tight, no cameras are allowed on site. I headed up on Wednesday to overnight in Pembroke and then on to the site Thursday morning. On the way back to Toronto Thursday, the van I was driving broke down in Northwood, ON. It turned out to be the main grounding cable broke/corroded off the terminal, so it wouldn’t allow me to restart the engine after stopping to gas up. A mechanic from Cloyne was able to diagnose the problem and get the van started using a some of vise grips, it allowed me to get to their garage where the grounding cable was replaced.

Chalk River map