Posted in Adventures, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Family Stuff, My Book, Personal, Photography, abandoned, abandoned mines, adventure in Ontario, animals, bizzare, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, creepy places, cryptozoology, culture, cute, environment, geography, geology, haunted places, humor, industrial archeology, my life, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rockhounding, rockwatching, urban exploration, wierd on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
His blue eye and white claw lead me to that conclusion.
IMG_6301, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
There we go - “Bad Old Chester”. Chester - the new “Rockhound”.
Sadly Shaka passed away in October. He had a tumor on his spleen - virtually unsaveable as the ensuing operation revealed. You may remember him from the post “Cave Police” (July 2006) and [...]
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Fossilized creatures of the Devonian Age still lie along the ancient Lake erie shoreline.
100_1896, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Anyway … To continue with the narrative about our “Caving off the radar”…
The Devonian Age rock (360 -408m yrs in age) first cuts the surface in Ontario as far east as Brantford. This is but a short drive [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Photography, Travel, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, articles, backpacking, bizzare, books, cave digging, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, fossils, geography, geology, hiking, my life, mystery, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on July 22, 2007 | No Comments »
A surprising abundance of karst features in what was otherwise belived to be a cave desert.
IMG_6818, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As of late Jeff Mirza, Jeff Collins, myself and my regular caving partner have all been investigating off the caving radar in Southern Ontario - an area that is not generally recognized as “primo” caving ground.
The [...]
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