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Watched from beginning to end and it all works to pull in attention... after the cloudy weather muted greys and browns the color appearing at the water's edge is a high point. Thanks for creating this vid GRS, the environmental sounds with music kept to a minimum, like before, add a lot to the...

Turtle...wrt smart phones losing charge quicjkly, in less than a week... mine keeps a usable charge for ten days at least, if it's kept in airplane mode (which disconnects calls, GPS, other operations), no wi-fi, no data and if it not being used so no screen time so screen is off... check the...

There is a used Swift Heron in expedition kevlar for sale at Algonquin Outfitters $1198... said to be the predecessor of the Kee 15, link to CCR thread included. No idea if it could be suitable, the $3000 prices for used Winters boats seem too high. https://algonquinoutfitters.com/used-canoes/...

This vid showed up this morning... great scenery, a tame fox, ice fishing, snaring hares. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGhi3TRKUWA Seeley lake was visited by Jonathan Kelly during a previous summer trip... cliffs, more lake trout caught while trolling... and some time taken to lie down and...

The French-Pickerel-Fox rivers area probably offers the best bang for the buck in terms of scenery, fishing and campsites... lots of options available with loops and sidetrips as well as seeing Georgian Bay and the 30,000 islands if the weather isn't rough. The summertime rsuh won't be on in the...

The recent warm weather resulted in some open water still remaining in Algonquin Park and a New Year's day paddle... not my photo, found on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/groups/2222572231/

Meteors should be visible about 3AM EST Saturday morning, good show predicted for eastern NA... unfortunately cloudy skies forecast for S Ont. Moonset at about 2AM EST https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astr...meteor-shower/

Just to get back onto the topic, saw a vid once where a bear, maybe a grizzly, was checking out a remote campsite and it was the scented soap he was interested in... here's what turns up with a google. This also turned up on google:

Thanks for posting the vid on this beauty... some thought went into the selection of wood and grain and it shows in the results. Good work, very nice!

Mike, Yes, the Pleiades are an especially brilliant star cluster... through binoculars, they're all a uniform and pure blue color, with very fine detail that seems diamond-like in a dark sky.. Also nearby and to the east is Orion, very distinctive of winter night skies. Couldn't stop from...

OK, I will add to the nail-biting suspense and tension being built in this thread with HOOP's vid on how to apply insect repellant properly. You'll notice that the hat, a key element to be considered in the war on biting bugs is not treated. This is a kinder, gentler sort of vid (in the past...

Alsg, that is indeed an interesting light pollution map...Algonquin Park in Ontario appears as an island of dark skies surrounded by development. I've noticed some light pollution in the Bancroft area since the Canadian Tire megastore and parking lot was built. A little test for light pollution...

The last good Perseid show was long ago, '80 or '81... there has been nothing since then to match the long, streaking meteor trails seen that year. The Geminids do seem to provide more meteors, maybe as often as one a minute and small trails only but it's been so cold on clear December nights in...

Yup... all kinds of posers out there needing to steal the show... and they often get away with it.

Eric Billard... Ancient history IIRC has it that eating large quantities of garlic would make one strong, esp in the case of gladiators where if a sword couldn't do the job, maybe a well-aimed exhalation would. A counterargument to using deodorant ... sort of. Maybe the Vikings did, close...

P Pitt... the photos still are visible here, don't know why not for you. Maybe the Flickr photo links will work if clicked upon. https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49255984091_05724d44ff_o.jpg https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49256217592_2387b0fb59_o.jpg

Some great color there, Gumpus... keep 'em coming. The weather here in S Ont is forecast to be mild and partially sunny looking forward, so after the Toronto Xmas shopping insanity (was in that yesterday) has ended, maybe there'll be some quality time outdoors. Solstice vid from Sweden...

Freshwater Saga I haven't read yet, forgot to search for it in the library system, thanks... The Lonely Land was one of the best. Currently starting out on The Little Ice Age and Europe's Encounter with North America, A Cold Welcome, Sam White... a bit of a grind esp after the hooks that...

Cheers and happy winter solstice... it was a real pleasure pedaling around the streets of Toronto in the warm sunny weather, when just several days earlier temps were freezing cold. I was going to post these solstice photos in the pic of the day thread where there was something earlier but...

Toronto also has an shoreline erosion problem at the Scarborough Bluffs when water is high and during storms. The eroded sand over thousands of years was transported west by alongshore currents to form the Toronto Islands which enclosed Toronto Bay. In historical times, early surveyors and...