Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Nature/Outdoors, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Scuba Diving, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, adventure in Ontario, animals, bats, bizzare, books, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, creepy places, diving, diving in ontario, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, photos, picture of, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, wierd on January 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Ontario cave with a scary past.
IMG_4403, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
The picture is a little blurry but I thought that I would post it today in memory of a time not so long ago when I was able to go outside without my nose almost freezing solid.
This is Donald of the SQS - a Quebec caving [...]
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IMG_6100, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is jeff; his glasses all fogged up from the steam. This is what there was behind the waterfall. It is an old industrial undertaking whereby the water up top was at one time diverted though a sluice down through a tunnel into turbines. This particular spot was one of the [...]
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Do you know what this is - any idea at all?
IMG_6086, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Not so flattering a picture of yours truly but it is indicative of when a long cold winter gets to be too much. I end up going out in desperation and doing strange things. I would be quite impressed if anyone [...]
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Costa Rica 3 068, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Maggie fans herself with a pamphlet in the heat. We are in the Tamarindo estuary with Meeener as our guide. From the main channel we weave in deeper through the mangrove roots. There are plenty of alligators, sting rays and birds of every variety. We eventually reached a [...]
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IMG_7167, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Looking downstream there is quite a rush of water heading off in that direction and on the ground above there are many sinkholes and places where large chunks of earth have collaped in over the winter. I suppose the system is being fed from innumerable small crevices on the surface.
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Posted in Adventures, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, Caving in Ontario, Interesting, Life, My Book, Nature/Outdoors, News, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, adventure in Ontario, bizzare, caves in Ontario, caving, crazy things, diving in ontario, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, mystery, nature, niagara escarpment, ontario, people, photos, picture of, rockhounding in Ontario, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, urban exploration, waterfalls of Ontario, wierd on January 6, 2008 | No Comments »
IMG_7175, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
In consideration of the stream and the high water conditions I think an exploration of this particular system is better left until it is both warmer and dryer. This is the view looking upstream. In the opposite direction the water is just roaring off down a tunnel that becomes quite tight. [...]
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IMG_7166, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I suppose I should have known better, after some heavy snow and now warmer temperatures the caves in this particular area were all quite flooded. There was one in particular that I wanted to check out. Greg had initially found and explored it. We wandered through the mist and slush, using [...]
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IMG_7148, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Well, Ive been under a little pressure as of late to post more about rock related subjects in Ontario.
Admittedly Ive been in a slump as of late. I hurt my back at work and could barely walk for months. Anyway I used my time to begin a new novel; “The Undiscovered [...]
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Dirty woman!
IMG_6954, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
From left to right - Marc (SQS), Greg (TCG) and Corneilie (SQS) all crouched around an area of flowstone on the floor. This is in the cave that we visited last weekend - a place of great natural beauty along the northern reaches of Ontario’s dolostone rim. Dolostone is not [...]
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We observe from a distance a fantasy land of stalactites, sodastraws and columns.
IMG_6957, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Beneath these stone draperies a tunnel leads from the bottom of the bone pit off into the “No Go Zone”, an area of incredible and delicate formations - the like of which are unknown to exist elsewhere in Ontario. [...]
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