How many provincial parks have you been to?

[Charline]

I am trying to develop a photo set of provincial parks in black and white.


How many provincial park have you been to?


I will start with two from Algonquin Park.

[Shortsighted]

 I'm waiting for paint to dry so I figured I would catch a post before it slips through my fingers. I guess I should have washed my hands first.



I don’t believe that I’ve ever visited a B&W Provincial Park. It would be sort of a theme park where no one is allowed to wear sweatpants, bring a mobile phone, no selfie stick, and where everyone says words like, “swell”.


As to what parks that I’ve visited? I’ve been to Algonquin Park a few times in my life, mostly in my youth while escorted by coureur des boi. I passed through it as a side trip while on my way back from Ottawa about 30 years ago and have not been there since then.
 
 
 I may have visited other Provincial Parks while on fishing trips but I wasn’t really viewing the trip as visiting a park, merely a lake, which just happened to be within the boundaries of a park. Even those trips were a long time ago when I wasn’t strapped to work and when I had a car.
 
 
 As I think about it now a few names emerge such as Killbear, Lake St. Peter, Balsam Lake, Presqu’ile, Sandbanks, and Bon Echo. There may be others that I don’t recall. Those springtime trips all involved tenting, cooking with a Coleman stove, campfire ... the whole enchilada.
 
 
 A B&W portfolio is cool, but B&W photos can be tricky to process. I see that you no longer have the blues. Smart move. After experimenting with the blues for a while I started having nightmares.   

[Bird Brain]

Algonquin Park
Bronte Creek
Pinery
Sauble Falls
Sibbald point

[Charline]

SS, the blue shall return, in due course.    Just this set is for a different purpose.


I never heard of Lake St. Peter. Should look into it.


Otherwise, I have visited all the park SS and Jo-Anne mentioned.


What about Arrowhead?

[Charline]

This was taken in Killarney. It's one of my favorite parks.

[Shortsighted]

Still a wonderful idea. Would make an appealing photo book. It's great to have a project underway. You are keeping this forum alive, but I remember something someone once said about a flogging and a deceased horse ... sounds unpleasant. I did mention that I love B&W, right?

[Charline]

Me? nah. You should take the credit yourself!


Here is a quiz, can anyone recognize this waterfall?

[Charline]

And this one?

[Shortsighted]

Is there a prize for a correct guess? Let's face it, one either recognizes the falls and therefore knows the location, or doesn't have a clue. The latter is my default state. All that notwithstanding, you deserve a response for your keen work and superb photographs, and yes, it is having the effect you hoped it would. You are sneakier than a shrink.

My initial guess is a no-brainer to suit the player. The Magpie River has been recently given human rights under the laws of the land. That got my attention right away ... giving water the rights of the laws of the land. Wait, what? This idea and concept is a first for Canada, and perhaps the planet. The concept is rather brilliant and comes from First Nations Elders. In theory, doing anything adverse to the Magpie River is like assault on a person, with the commensurate penalties. The Magpie River flows southward in both Ontario and Quebec because there are two rivers, don't yah know. So, because you have the upper hand and are posing the question in the first place, let me turn the tables and raise you two questions: Is this waterfall on the Magpie River? ... and ... Which Magpie River has been granted the full rights of a Canadian citizen?


My second guess is Kakabeka Falls.

What do you mean I don't get two guesses?

[Charline]

Magpie River? Again I learned something, thank you!


Yes, your second guess is correct. Congrats!! 🎉🎉


Prize? The game is not over yet. The following three were from two different parks. The first one should be easy. Nos. 2 & 3 maybe a bit harder but the features are very distinctive

[Shortsighted]

Tall column of diabase (dolerite) and sandstone = Sleeping Giant PP. for first two photos. The arch is famous for some reason and is called Lion something. That's a long way from here.

The last shot of a canyon is Ouime, not nonyou. Somewhere near Thunder Bay and just as far away. Did you take a train, a bus, or did you fly in with a float plane? We don't have that many canyons in Ontario except the one near Ottawa where the feds toss all the tax revenue.  Or, was that a pit?

There is a lot of interesting geology up that way, enough to trip over in fact. Way to go, you wild woman of the far north!
P.S. When do I get my prize?

[Charline]

Prize? Was it announced?   What do you wish to get?


We can definitely give you the Grand Praise


The first one was the Sea Lion, a diabase arch in Sleeping Giant Provincial Park.


The other two were Ouimet Canyon Provincial Park. The Canyon was created by the melting glaciers,, if I remember correctly.


I went to Thunder Bay twice, once by plane, the other time by Northland bus halfway and then car pooling.

[Shortsighted]

The prize winner seldom gets to pick the price. How about a free pass for a tour inside your mind. Then again, I might not be able to handle that much creativity at one go. I just happen to know a few things about a few parks and you picked those things from those parks. It could easily have gone the other way and I would have washed-out.

[Bird Brain]

I never heard of Lake St. Peter.

Me either. Had to look it up on Google and Google Images. Looks like a nice location for hiking and relaxing on the beach.  For those young and with energy (not me), playing volleyball on the beach.   

I wonder what sounds people would hear when camping overnight?  It's not far from Algonquin Park.
 

[Shortsighted]

What sounds indeed. I pulled up to a Lake St. Peter Park campsite in a Ford F250 with a wooden box built onto the box bed, shut off the 8-cylinder engine, climbed out of the cab and slammed the door shut. What sounds did I hear? No sounds! It was absolutely quiet because there was no wind. Anechoic quiet. All I could make out was the sound of the blood pulsing through the vascularity of my ear. At night I only recall the sounds of the campfire. It was the quietest place I've ever visited. That was in 1974.  If I went there now I would probably get out of the truck and immediately have someone sidle up alongside me with their arm outstretched and held high to proclaim that there is next to no cell phone reception here. I would likely then get back into the truck and drive it directly into the lake ... while screaming. Caught a trout, cleaned the trout, cooked the trout, ate the trout ... perhaps not quite in that order ... can't recall because I was still stunned having thought that I had gone deaf. The next day there was a breeze and therefore the lake was no longer like glass. There was no point ever going back because the first visit was perfect.