Pictures from Bruce

[frandroid]

My pictures from our camping trip in the Bruce Peninsula National Park. We spent 5 days camping there. It was awesome. The pictures don't tell the whole story, but along with their captions, they tell teh pretty.

Since I can't put HTML tags in the gallery description, here's some googlemapping of the area, especially for the Vancouver folks who might be less familiar with it.

The general area where the Park is. (If you put it in Map mode, you see the Park, but its boundaries are in reality much larger than what Google shows.)
To the right, most of Georgian Bay, which is part of Lake Huron, which continues to the Left of the peninsula and Tobermory.
Vancouver, seen at the same scale, to give you an idea of the size of the bay.

ETA: Your keen reaction, readers, along with my own enthrallment at the Bruce Peninsula tell me that I should try to come up with a "Pirates of the Bruce"-type adventure film!

ETA2: I have now swimmed in Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. I've been reluctant to swim in Lake Ontario in the past, but since I was right outside a nuclear power plant when I swam in Lake Michigan, I should ditch my reservations and aim to swim in all five. Maybe I can even add a dip at Niagara Falls next time I hang out there too...

Comments

[rensalterego.livejournal.com]

Beautiful.

Thanks for sharing. *adds Bruce to to-do list*

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

It's about 5 or 6 hours drive from Toronto. If you plan on going next summer, I recommend booking early (camping reservations open in March!) but we got our own spot (well, we have to rent two separate spots for our 4 contiguous nights) sometime in July. But really, everything was booked booked booked, especially weekends.

There's also a huge ferry that leaves from there to Manitoulin Island(s?), which we didn't take but can be another exploration further towards northern Ontario... :]

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Great pics!

No snorkeling?

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

No snorkeling because we're lame. But watching other people do it gave me the bug...

[seaya.livejournal.com]

Was it fresh water or salt water? Just curious.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

It's Lake Huron, so it's fresh water.

I've grown up fishing on fresh water lakes, which are usually much smaller. So it's kinda hard to compute that this is fresh water, completely gigantic (you can't see the other end) and that the water is coloured in a way that reminds me of the tropics. In my own experience, fresh water lakes are a bit yellow at the shore and just become black as they get deeper. All this limpid green and blue is something else!

[tovegirl.livejournal.com]

so beautiful!

and shipwrecks! I have no desire to scuba dive, but that does look inviting.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's quite amazing. Those two shipwrecks are extremely close to the surface. One simply sailed into shallow water and sank. The other one was towed there while it was burning to avoid setting other boats in the marina on fire, and then eventually also sank, sometime in the mid- to late 19th century. I was very quite excited when I saw them. The only letdown is that we were on a "glass bottom" boat, but really the glass bottom was two 15 square foot windows in the hull. The wrecks were so close to the surface that there wasn't really any point in checking them through these small windows, you had no perspective at all.

[mrputter.livejournal.com]

> shipwrecks!

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down/ of the big lake they call Gitchii Gumii...


(Ok, so Huron ≠ Superior, but whatever.)

[debaucheryofgod.livejournal.com]

niiice.

and you and f have complimentary eyewear.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Haha, we do. We seem to weird out some people this way hehe.

[woobeans.livejournal.com]

cool pictures! i had no idea the water is so beautiful there.

[frandroid.livejournal.com]

Me neither! I've often gone on the shores of Lake Ontario, as Toronto is right there (I mean, I even see it out of my apartment window), and it's not nearly as nice as in the Bruce Peninsula.