Rocks

Okay, so I've been bad. Over two months since my last blog entry. Hopefully, a few of these images are interesting enough to make up for it.

Rocks. I find rocks interesting. Patterns, textures, colours, all elements that appeal to me. The following images were taken on our recent trip to Nova Scotia.






Rock formations - Baxter Harbour

Rock formation - Western Head

Hope you enjoyed the images.

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Other images from our trip to Nova Scotia can be seen in my Vacation --> Nova Scotia 2010 gallery.Please feel free to leave comments here on the blog, in my Guestbook or in the photo gallery.

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Scenes From Ireland - Part II

Lakes, Rivers and Coastal Waters. Some additional photos from our Ireland trip last year

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Other images taken on our visit to Ireland can be seen in my Ireland galleries.

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Scenes From Ireland - Part I

A few images from our trip to Ireland last year

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Other images taken on our visit to Ireland can be seen in my Ireland galleries.

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A visit to Ireland - Day 1

Royal Irish Tours

Back in at the end of May, Marilyn and I took one of our "Trip of a Lifetime" trips to visit Ireland. (I say 'one of' because we hope to be able to take several more.)

We choose Royal Irish Tours because of recommendations of friends and because they appeared to have the most extensive and inclusive trip. They offer several different packages. The tour we chose was the Shamrock Royal.

The first day of the tour was spent recuperating from the overnight flight out of Toronto to Dublin. But we still managed some site-seeing.

Cliffs over looking the Irish Sea - Malahide Co Dublin

Beacon House out on Baily road overlooking Dublin Harbour


Our Hotel - Grand Hotel - Malahide, Co. Dublin


This was an amazing experience for us, one we will never forget. (And to ensure that I took a fair amount of photos to help remind us. (smile))

I'll post additional photos in the future from the other 14 days we spend on the Emerald Isle.

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Waterfalls

Lower waterfalls along the
Hewitson River, Rainbow
Falls Provincial Park
I love waterfalls. There is something about falling water, the texture, the patterns formed as it moves rapidly or slowly over the rocks and down through space.


Kakabeka Falls

There is beauty to be seen in the power of a waterfall in spring as it roars with the full throat of snow melts. Or in the delicate spiderweb design that is created in a small creek that trickles across the rocks.
On our trip to Thunder Bay we saw a wide variety of waterfalls, both in Ontario as well as Minnesota.

You can see other images of waterfalls in these two galleries:
- Ontario waterfalls
- Minnesota waterfalls

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Sault Ste Marie, Ontario

Hiawatha Beach
Kinsmen Park

Sault Ste Marie, Ontario (or the Soo as it's called by locals) is a nice little city of approximately 80,0000 people. We spent part of a day there on the way to Thunder Bay and three on our way home.

We visited Kinsmen Park and the Crystal Falls. Also walked along the beautiful boardwalk that runs along the St Mary River.


Crystal Falls
When you look across the water, you're looking at Sault Ste Marie, Michigan.

One thing that surprised me about the Soo was the large Italian population. It appears that many Italians immigrated to the area after World War II to work in the steel factories.
The annual Italian Festival was on while we in there. Lots of good food to be had.

For other images taken during our visit to this city, please visit my Sault Ste Marie, Ontario gallery

Thunder Bay, Ontario

Sleeping Giant
Back at the end of July this year, my wife Marilyn and I took a trip to Thunder Bay, Ontario. We had been wanting to take this trip for several years, but always seemed to end up somewhere else.



Mr Chipmunk

We traveled up the 417, staying at North Bay, Sault Ste Marie and Marathon on the way up. Northern Ontario is simply beautiful to see. While we seldom deviated from the main highway, there was still many interesting things to see along the way: provincial parks, waterfalls, even Winnie the Pooh. ::smile::

Other photos from Thunder Bay can be seen in my Thunder Bay gallery.