2013
The Last Blast?
Mother nature is not quite finished with us yet. Another blast of winter has arrived keeping the snowmobile trails and ski hills in the area in fine form. Here is a shot looking out onto the ice from the park in Rosseau. In like a Shetland Pony and out like an Orangutang.
In: in and around muskoka ontario, on the water, tripin around towns
2013
Endogenous Spring Rhythms
I don’t know what all the hoopla is about losing an extra hour of sleep when daylight savings time arrives. Perhaps just sleep an extra hour if your circadian rhythm goes out of sync. For me its a welcoming sign that spring is near and the lakes will be opening up soon. I long for the warm weather, swimming, boating, BBQ, campfires, echoing Loons and good friends on the dock.
2013
Welcome to Sled City
During the Gravenhurst winter carnival it seemed like all the commotion was happening a bit to the north at Muskoka Bay Park. I ventured out onto the ice where hundreds of snowmobilers were involved in the high speed radar runs.
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2013
They Run a Tight Ship
I traveled through the town of Gravenhurst this past weekend stumbling upon their annual Winter Carnival festivities. There wasn’t much happening around the Steamships so I decided to take a walk and snap a few pics around the area.
In: in and around muskoka ontario, on the water, tripin around towns
2013
Willmotts General Store
This is Willmotts General Store located in the Beaumaris area of Muskoka. Beaumaris is located on Tondern Island which you simply drive over a bridge to get to.
From Wikipedia: In 1873 McCarthy sold the island to Edward Prowse and John Harry Willmott for $1,560. The two divided the island in half with Willmott taking the northern and Prowse the southern half. The new owners named the settlement Beaumaris after the resort in Anglesey, Wales where they had vacationed. Prowse settled in the big white house while Willmott built a log house next to the site of the present day Willmott store. They cleared part of the land for pasture, built a dock for the newly arrived steamships and connected the island to the mainland by a small log bridge.
In: historic muskoka, in and around muskoka ontario, tripin around towns
2013
The Lonely Chip Wagon
Are chip wagons & trucks a Canadian phenomenon? I don’t recall seeing them anywhere else in my travels around the globe, although I did see a cupcake and goats head soup trailer once. I notice in the summer the various chip trucks around Muskoka can be lined up with people salivating for fries or the famous artery clogging Poutine. This particular cuisine trailer is located on Hwy #118 as you leave Port Carling heading towards Bracebridge. Gravy on your fries?
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2013
Frizzen Arctic Style
OK, well now we’re in it. Winter that is. Remember those warm thermals we just experienced 2 weeks ago? It was only a hallucination. The coldest measured temperature in the world, as of 6 a.m. today, was –43.1 C in Canada’s North West Territories. Muskoka is not far off at -37C this morning and that’s without the windchill factor. Brrr – Summer can’t come soon enough!
In: in and around muskoka ontario, on the water, tripin around towns
2013
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
I had a chance to tour around Muskoka this past weekend during the unseasonably warm temperatures. The snowmobile trails are closed and in most places the ice has opened up on the lakes making it very dangerous. I stopped at Foots Bay where it was dead quiet and gazed out to Lake Joseph.
