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Archive for June 21st, 2006

Underground photography and lighting – Canadian cavers explore the Ontario’s roots)

Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, sports, underground, underground Ontario on June 21, 2006 | 3 Comments »

IMG_4430, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is Marc-Andre, the chief guide at the La Fleche Caves near Otawa. Marc-Andre was one of my three companions during this last exploration and in the photo, Corneile, his wife provides a most interesting backlighting with LED light.
Cavers tend to use a combination of different light sources. The regular Petzyl [...]

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Explorations in Underground Water Tubes (Quebec Cavers lead the way)

Posted in Adventures, Caves on June 21, 2006 | Leave a Comment »

IMG_4418, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Corneile and Donald stand waist deep in freezing, turbid water. It gets deeper as we progress inwards though by the appearance of Corneile's grin, it is no impediment to the outing.

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Caving in Canada – (The bowels of the beast)

Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Travel, adventure in Ontario, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, sports, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario on June 21, 2006 | 4 Comments »

IMG_4403 Originally uploaded by Mic2006. Oh yeahhhh! This is what its all about. Donald, one of my French-Canadian caving companions illuminates a drapery. I feverishly snap away with my camera – this is Christmas for me. I am a little disappointed by picture’s bluriness but I usually prefer to sacrifice the flash in favor [...]

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