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Digital photography... gone are the days when you had to conserve film waiting for the best shots. Now it's... "we were on vacation and we brought back 20,000 photographs"... you can't have a moment anywhere without someone recording it.

For those who hate seeing cell phones, laptops, tablets, calculators, e-readers, and any and all hi-tech devices polluting the natural beauty of pristine environments (sorry not a photo but serves the purpose)... https://www.pinterest.com.au/pin/677439968941639858/

When I got to visit the cargo loading area of the main Toronto airport (Pearson) watching planes being loaded, I saw a worker step on one of the boxes to reach up for something and could hear glass objects breaking and crunching underfoot. Business as usual for the worker, unconcerned maybe...

Well, the cops now say that they won't be stopping people to check on why they aren't staying home. Ontario's a hotspot, no question... Atlantic Canada OTOH is doing something right. Pandemic rate in Nova Scotia is far lower, 181 per 100,000 population, compared with 2,654 per 100,000 population...

Bubblevision news reports this morning saying that Doug Ford will be announcing more drastic measures this afternoon (Friday 16th) since things are getting worse. In Toronto there is a stay-at-home emergency issued, but are people staying at home.... nope, spring is here.

Black Fly... Tried longer rods and they are clunky and cumbersome in the limited space that a canoe provides... shorter 5 1/2- 6 foot rods are easier to handle while still providing enough clearance for paddling on the same side. I also troll without a rod holder, the rod resting on the...

For me, there hasn't been any lure that's been pulled through more water over the last fifty years than a Williams Wabler... it seemed to outfish a Daredevil, so became the old reliable.

Wrt the costs of the Spacemobile service vs the other options above (I have no idea of reliability), Spacemobile now making business-like noises that service will be made "very, very affordable" with the actual pricing being determined by individual telcos offering their own service plans... so...

Black Fly... The NC Prospector is said to be a fuller-ended Prospector when compared to the others made by Swift, Wenonah, and the rest (Prospector hulls may been modified more recently by newer companies in an attempt to improve the design)... the fuller ends should provide more room for feet...

Map of weather radio stations in Canada... to get some idea of coverage, adjust scale until a distance bar of fifty km appears, about the radius range of a station's coverage. Yup, I'm in an area with no coverage, and so are many canoe routes. I've been using AM skip at night or local CBC...

Jim Baird uses a double blade paddling his Novacraft Prospector 15, although here, on the first test paddle after buying in 2019 he's using a single. Since he weighs in at a respectable 270 pounds, the front of the canoe is riding high up and needs some load to bring it down. If it were a rough...

Difficult to say without knowing how the load will be distributed and how heavy... it might help at first to adjust trim forward vs rearward by filling large plastic water jugs and adding them at the front as far as possible to see the difference in glide and reaction to strokes as trim is...

Don't know why I didn't see this earlier... really enjoyed seeing it. Thanks!

Maybe the height of a marijuana plant growing on the windowsill, growth from starting out as a seedling to stop with harvest. That would explain the memory loss as well. I myself cannot remember large portions of the sixties and seventies... j/k...

Great pix, Mr. Haslam... sleeping bags and stovewood. Coffee must have been the next morning. Never had it that good in an ice hut.

Photos from this morning's Globe and Mail (a Toronto newspaper)... Lac Des Mille Lacs near Thunder Bay has the largest ice hut community in northwest Ontario. https://www.theglobeandmail.com/cana...uts/#c-image-5

OT but somewhat relevant... if you like Great Lakes history, the old Welland canals near Niagara are worth a look in that area... there is a section that is promoted for paddling in the town of Welland but also boring from what I've been able to see online. The more interesting sections of the...

Dedicated satellite phones and messaging (currently provided by Globalstar, Iridium, InReach and the rest) may soon be disrupted by new satellite constellations providing voice and data to ordinary phones anywhere on earth. No reports on costs yet... Elon Musk's Starlink system is targeting...

Another plus with beaver dams and ponds in this area is there are often brook trout in them since the water is deeper. They don't get very large (the large ones are in lakes and are caught by trolling) but usually large enough for the frying pan.

I've dragged my loaded stripper over beaver dams, getting out first and there hasn't been any scratching to the varnish from sticks or cracking of fiberglass. A very heavily loaded canoe might suffer. Sometimes beavers will carry mud to build dams with and there could be gravel in that that...