 | | 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.
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