Month: May 2013
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Georgian Bay: Lighthouse
The Eastern entrance into the Killarney Channel is marked by a lighthouse, now fully automated. With GPS prevalent in most boats of any size it’s hard to see the need, at least for reasons of…
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Georgian Bay: Fishery
Commercial fishing continues on Georgian Bay. It’s not as big a fishery as it once was (I got the impression there were only a few boats remaining). This fishing boat is from Herbert’s Fishery. Herbert…
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Georgian Bay: Canoe Ride
One late afternoon we took a canoe from the lodge and paddled long the shoreline towards the eastern entrance into Kilarney Channel. I haven’t canoed for many years, but after a few minutes the “J”…
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Georgian Bay: Chikanishing Trail
Near the western entrance to the Park leading south from Highway 637 is the Chikanishing Trail which leads one to the northern shores of Georgian Bay. A composition of wind-swept white pines, billion-year-old bedrock and…
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Killarney Provincial Park
A week ago Saturday, May 18th, we drove north to Killarney where we stayed until the following Friday (May 24th). Killarney, population 500, is some 400KM north of Toronto just west of the Killarney Provincial…
