Beaver Valley, originally uploaded by Mic2006. I was out scouting for a possible cave dig location today. Caving in Ontario can sometimes involve a little digging. Beaver Valley has a few promising possibilities. Investigations from a past trip revealed the likelihood of a bedding plane tunnel, there was no remarkable amount of solution taking place. [...]
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Beaver Valley – Fall leaves in Ontario
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Buy The Book, cave conservation, cave digging, cave diving in ontario, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Hamilton, Caving in Ontario, Education, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, Interesting, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario caves, Ontario geography, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geography, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Beaver Valley, cave hunting, caves in Ontario, Caving in Ontario, fall colors, geography, geology, geology of Ontario, karst, looking for caves, Niagara escarpment, ontario on October 10, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Main chamber – Rover’s Cave
Posted in adventure in Ontario, Adventures, backpacking, Buy The Book, Canada, cave conservation, cave formation, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, Education, environment, exploration, extreme sports, geography, geology, guelph, Hamilton, hiking, history, Interesting, Life, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, niagara escarpment, ontario, Ontario Underground, Ontario's geology, Photography, photos, picture of, rocks and minerals, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, searching for caves, sports, strange places, tunnels, Uncategorized, underground, underground Ontario, tagged Canadian geography, Caves, caving, Caving in Ontario, geography, geology, georgian Bay, Ontario's geography on November 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Main chamber – Rover’s Cave, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is JC in the initial entry chamber of Rover’s Cave. You will notice the texture of the walls and what appears to be icing or molten candle wax running down over small hollow indentations that are known as scallops. The scallops are indicative of water [...]
Martian Caves?
Posted in Adventures, bizzare, books, Buy The Book, cave formation, Caves, caving, Caving in Cuba, crazy things, crystals, Cuba, Cuban life, Education, environment, exploration, geography, geology, holiday in Cuba, Interesting, Life, magical, Matanzas, My Book, my life, nature, Nature/Outdoors, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, science, searching for caves, sports, strange places, Travel, travel writing, tunnels, Uncategorized, underground, vacation, varadero, wierd, tagged caving, Caving in Cuba, Cuba, Cuevas de Bellamar, geology, limestone, Travel, vacation on November 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Ontario caver goes Cuban Sloshing through tepid water in the Cuevas de Bellamar I proceeded onwards past the usual path of travel. I am told that these gently sloping tunnels eventually reach the aquifer. Cuba is part of the same limestone plateau upon which is perched Florida and the Yucatan. Oddly this rock in [...]
Tourmaline at Coe Hill Gold Mine
Posted in abandoned mines, abandoned mines in Ontario, adventure in Ontario, Adventures, Bancroft gemboree, books, Buy The Book, Canada, Caves, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, Cobalt, collecting rocks near Bancroft, crystals, Education, environment, exploration, gemology, gems, gemstones, geography, geology, gold, gold mining, hiking, industrial archeology, Interesting, Life, looking for gems, mine, mines in northern Ontario, My Book, my life, mystery, nature, Nature/Outdoors, ontario, Ontario's geology, Personal, Photography, photos, picture of, rock collecting, rockhounding, rockhounding in Ontario, Rocks & Gems, rocks in Ontario, rockwatching, science, searching for caves, strange places, Travel, underground, underground Ontario, wierd, tagged book, caves in Ontario, caving, Caving in Ontario, geology, gold, gold in Ontario, My Book, photos, rock and gems, rock and mineral, rockhounding, rocks in Ontario, tourmaline on October 12, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Rocks Minerals and Caves in Ontario – the north IMG_1620, originally uploaded by Mic2006. This is Ralph holding a slab of “tourmaline in quartz” at the Coe Hill gold mine. There is an intrusion or pocket at the top oif a hill on that property that consists almost exclusively of quartz impregnated tourmaline. One interesting [...]
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