Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, News, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, culture, my life, photos, science on June 28, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As mentioned, this last weekend I had visited with a local archeologist who was investigating the possibility of human habitation in the caves of the Eramosa Member and its surroundings.
I had heard voices as I approached the woodlot and following down a leafy path I soon found Joseph Muller and [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, articles, culture, gems, geography, geology, my life, ontario, photos, science on June 27, 2006 | No Comments »
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At its finest this wonderful purple gem is a rich, fathomless violet frozen in stone. It was a color most valued by Roman nobility and until the latter half of the 18th century, was considered to be amongst the most precious of jewels. With the discovery of the vast Brazillian deposits [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Interesting, Life, Personal, Photography, culture, humor, my life, photos on June 27, 2006 | 3 Comments »
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A comment from Jennifer in one of my recent posts, lamenting her once slim physique and ability to push virgin passage bought back memories of the great feast with Doug, he like myself is a guy who appreciates a meal of quantity as much as quality - though if the taste [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, articles, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, people, photos, science, sports, underground on June 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
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This is Kirk MacGregor, founding father of the Toronto Cave Group. Early in the morning (Early for Kirk that is), while the other cavers were still rustling around in their tents we followed into the underground from a valley beside the encampment. It is one of the few horizontal [...]
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Posted in Caves on June 26, 2006 | 1 Comment »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In a previous post (The Water Table has Dropped and What a Pleasant Surprise; the Sound of Running Water) Doug told me that Marcus Buck and Steve Worthington had pushed their way along this low muddy crawlspace for around 30 metres. It supposedly joins up with the main Olmstead Cave that they [...]
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here we are at the heart of the action, Maggie sprays Shaka and he grumbles and moans. We use the soap titled "Skunk De-scenter". After the bath a hose blasts high pressure air over your pet, drying him in a fraction of the time than if you were using a hair dryer like [...]
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
No rock related activities today; Maggie had a strict schedule to which I was tied. First task was to take Shaka swimming down at the river near Arkell (The Eramosa River). He loves the water but smells terrible afterward. My second job was to accompany her to the new "Wag N Wash" [...]
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Posted in Caves on June 25, 2006 | 8 Comments »
IMG_4512, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
After my first miserable experience in mid November (See post- Urban Caves Challenge Explorers in Southern Ontario) when I wriggled through water, neck-deep and almost hypothermic I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that the tunnels were relatively free of that turbid coffee-swill.
Slipping through the opening at the bottom of the [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sports, underground, underground Ontario on June 25, 2006 | No Comments »
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Greetings Bloggers, Well now that I am on a roll, its hard to stop. I had the good fortune to split my time between two cave projects today, firstly a meeting with a team of local archeologists who are sifting through the soils of the afore-mentioned “Eramosa Member Karst” for clues [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, articles, culture, geography, geology, my life, ontario, photos, science, sports on June 24, 2006 | No Comments »
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Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Encased in a rapidly expanding urban sprawl in Southern Ontario there is a provincially significant showing of the cave-forming geographical landscape known as karst. Though it’s core is only 130 acres in extent it is recocognized as one of the foremost teaching and research areas in the region.
The geological setting [...]
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