Posted in Interesting, Life, News, Personal, Photography, Travel, culture, my life, photos, sports, world cup on July 9, 2006 | 4 Comments »
IMG_4900, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
I suppose scenes like this are playing themselves out all across the world right now. I had been returning from an “abandoned mine” hunting outing with my wife Maggie and as we neared the town in which we live (Guelph), the sound of horns and cheering rose above the engine purr. [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, my life, photos on July 8, 2006 | No Comments »
IMG_4784, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
Here I crouch in a wonderful tunnel of banded marble. The stream drops down from a wooded gorge in the forest and flows along to a resugence a short distance away. We had been warned to be careful by a local man of some ambiguous religious persuasion. We had met him [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Education, Family Stuff, Interesting, Life, Personal, Photography, Travel, culture, humor, my life, photos, science on July 6, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Blog12, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
As promised, here is James getting his teeth seen to. This is by no means the Jaipur indian dentist on the previous post but it does serve to fondly remind James of the visit. No doubt he is wishing to have the option of the rusty Jaipur plyers and a god [...]
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Blog10, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
My dear father has always had a fascination with his own and the dental work of others. Given a second chance in life I am sure he would have chosen the dental profession. In fact he has gone so far as to manufacture his own tooth out of marine epoxy and [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Photography, Rocks & Gems, Travel, articles, geography, geology, my life, ontario, photos, science, sports on July 2, 2006 | 2 Comments »
IMG_4678, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
One of the systems that we eventually located this past weekend was beneath a plateau; a multi-level cavern that has been hollowed out by the water. The uppermost level is dry. There is a middle level; floored by great banks of mud and at times, pools of water. There is also [...]
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Posted in Adventures, Caves, Education, Interesting, Life, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, Toronto Cave Group, Travel, articles, caving, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, my life, nature, people, photos, science, sports, underground on June 26, 2006 | 2 Comments »
old pics 048, originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is Kirk MacGregor, founding father of the Toronto Cave Group. Early in the morning (Early for Kirk that is), while the other cavers were still rustling around in their tents we followed into the underground from a valley beside the encampment. It is one of the few horizontal [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 30, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Greetings Bloggers, Just thought you might like to hear that I am still alive and had a good day at the Hell Holes. I will provide details tomorrow night. There are a couple of really good pictures to show you and as my flickr account is renewed this Sunday night that is when you will [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | No Comments »
Greetings bloggers, Some exciting cave related news has just come my way. I immediatly thought to share it with you. Doug, Greg Warchol and I have been communicating back and forth over the last few days trying to throw together some sort of reconnisance to the Hell Holes. It is a promising area of karst [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 28, 2006 | No Comments »
IMG_1368
Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This last summer my father and I had visited the old Bessamer Iron Mine near Bancroft. We had been looking for magnetite specimens. Apparently rare black octahedrons of that mineral can occasionally be found there.
Just as the sun was setting we noticed an indistinct path [...]
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Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2006 | No Comments »
IMG_1744
Originally uploaded by Mic2006.
This is the entrance to the Croft Mine. It was a wet wade into the tunnels which had been carved from within a garnet bearing pegmatite fissure. There was plenty of the pegmatite debris lying out in the forest dumps, strewn betweeen the trees and [...]
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