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49, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is one of the many spectacular waterfalls that the hiker can visit in Southern Ontario. All around the western corner of Lake Ontario there are places where the local rivers tumble over the Niagara escarpment edge. This is the lower falls at Balls Falls (just east of Hamilton) where the [...]

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IMG_3414, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Our topographical map was initially quite deceiving, it led me to believe that the channel I had examined on my last visit was the much larger depiction on the map but it soon became apparent that I was wrong.
At a spot where I had seen the swamp water sinking there was [...]

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IMG_3398, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Walking across the land in front of the swamp we came across a most unusual sight. Isolated depressions where the water had once pooled were the receptacle for thousands of dying fish. It seems that the water had just sunk into the ground and every species in the swamp were represented, trout, [...]

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