Urban Caves Challenge Explorers in Southern Ontario (Nexus, Olmstead and other yet to be discovered wonders)

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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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Sea Stacks on Flowerpot Island have a magical aura

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There is some sort of rumour that talks of an Indian Brave and a maiden that had fallen in love with him. I cant recall the exact content of the story but the end result was that they were both supposedly turned into stone along the lakeshore. The two stone pillars [...]

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