Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, caves in Ontario, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, searching for caves, sports, strange places, travel writing, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Caves, caves in Canada, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, exploring, outdoors, sports on August 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Wading deeper into tunnels
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In pursuit of the slurping sound I waded onward down the watery tunnel. The water was about 5 feet deep, clear and greenish tinged. Remarkably the floor was composed of pea gravel – tiny little rocks worn smooth and translucent by the running water. I wondered where the [...]
Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, adventure in Ontario, backpacking, bizzare, books, cave formation, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, hiking, my life, nature, ontario, photos, picture of, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged Add new tag, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario on August 17, 2008 | 2 Comments »
An Ontario Cave
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You would be surprised how cold ground water can be in August.
While exploring an Ontario cave I heard this strange hollow bonking sound, it was really loud, a sort of chugging, slurping gong. It kind of freaked me out until I realized that it came from somewhere along this [...]
Posted in Bancroft gemboree, Canada, Cobalt, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, collecting rocks near Bancroft, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, history, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, silver, silver mines, tagged Bancroft, Bancroft gemboree, collecting minerals, gem show, natural silver wire, ontario, raw silver, rock and gem, rock and mineral show, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, silver on August 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Raw silver found as wire – sold at the Bancroft Gemboree
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If you want it you can find it at the Bancroft Gemboree.
Yeah – they look like fletched arrow spines, barbs on fish hooks or just poorly made hooks but as the vendor explained, they are naturally occuring pieces of silver wire.
I [...]
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Bancroft Gemboree 2008
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This lady was selling pink buddhas at the Bancroft Gemboree. I have just got back from spending the weekend there and I have taken a number of interesting photos of the people and the minerals that were being sold. This was the first person that I saw as I [...]
Posted in Adventures, Canada, Caves, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, abandoned, abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, animals, bats, bizzare, creepy places, environment, exploration, geography, geology, history, industrial archeology, mine, mines in northern Ontario, my life, ontario, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, wierd, tagged abandoned mines in Ontario, Add new tag, bats, mine, mines in northern Ontario on August 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Bats Looked Healthy to me
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Much has been said of the mysterious disease that had been killing bats this spring. Having just seen numerous bats in Northern Ontario (Bancroft area) I was unable to notice any of the white fuzz around the nose. This disease might possibly have just shown itself [...]
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