 | Author: | Fossil (ID: 9749) | Posted: | 2010-08-11 15:15 GMT+00:00 | Mileage: | 463.65 km | |
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 | Tags: | Travel, Photography, Water Activity, Landscape, Animals, Southeastern Ontario, historic houses, port, St Lawrence Seaway, historic buildings, nature |
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Solo drive along old King's Highway #2 to Trenton, then up the Trent-Severn waterway toward Campbellford, and back roads to Peterborough, Ontario
 | Lake boat on the Seaway |
 | Entrance to the Long Sault Parkway |
 | Island marker |
The Long Sault Parkway goes by a bridge or two and several causeways over a few islands on the north side of the seaway
 | Canada geese and seagulls |
 | Geese |
 | Many geese |
 | And a bunch more |
 | Stately heron |
 | Ducks and heron |
 | Ducks and heron |
 | Fair Jeanne |
This ship (from Ottawa Bytown Yacht Club) went through the locks at Ste Anne de Bellevue about a month ago. Jellylava took pictures of it then.
 | Seagull |
 | Fair Jeanne |
 | Fair Jeanne |
 | Old house |
 | Another old house |
There is a whole row of these beauties on this piece of road
 | Yet another |
 | Gorgeous old house |
 | Once more, with feeling |
 | Canadian Forces Museum |
This museum is devoted to the Canadian Signalling Corps and its successor units
 | Telephones in the trenches |
 | Communications classroom |
Early 20th Century communications classroom
 | Canadian Forces uniforms |
World War II?
 | After Dieppe |
Prisoners of war accommodations in a German POW camp
 | Despatch rider's motorcycle |
Triumph twin, probably from the 60s
 | UN jeep |
Peacekeeping was Canadian forces' main post-Korea role
 | Comm truck |
Fairly recent communications truck
 | Afghanistan |
 | Iltis Jeep |
Lineman's transport (vulnerable to IEDs)
 | Swan |
On the Trent-Severn waterway
 | Dam and lock |
 | Locks on the Trent-Severn waterway |
 | Swing bridge |
Bridge rotates out of the way to permit boat passage through the locks
 | Locks |
 | Glen Ross Lock 7 |
 | Gravel road |
Trying new routes took me over a few scenic gravel roads
 | Grravel road |
The road condition was good, but of course it was very dry
 | Pretty road |
These are (I think) the Trent Hills
 | Sheep |
A HUGE herd of sheep, many of the "black sheep" variety
 | Lotsa sheep |
 | Hilly road |
Toward dusk, hot and humid
 | Osprey |
Looking for ospreys at all the nests I'd noticed on earlier trips. Mostly the juveniles seem to have left, and many nests seemed abandoned
 | Osprey |
This bird was at home. I waited to see it fly -- they are so beautiful in flight, soaring with scarcely a wing-beat.
 | Osprey on the wing |
Finally! But it flew too far away, too fast, in poor light
 | Osprey |
 | Osprey |
That's the bird in that tree. Flew there and just sat. Eventually I gave up and moved on.