Rideau Lakes & southern Ontario

April 2024

I don’t usually comment on my travel (spoiler: it’s usually business travel), but this invites something of a “why were you in southern Ontario in early spring?” question.

We were there for the eclipse. The eclipse was clouded over in Ontario but we out-ran the cloud and saw it from Mont-Saint-Grégoire in Quebec. I didn’t attempt to photograph the eclipse though; it’s hard to do and I’d rather simply see it. Hence the easier-to-get lake photography.

Sunset at Chaffeys Locks The Tragically Hip Way, Kingston Benson Lake Reflection, Indian Lake Mossy rocks, Chaffeys Lock Clouds and cabin reflected in Benson Lake Beaver dam, Telephone Bay

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Green rock

April 2022

In utmost naivety, we expected the red centre to be only rock and red dirt. But the whole desert is alive with desert oak and spinnifex (andm if you are lucky, quandong), and Uluṟu in particular attracts and shelters water, and thereby, herds of ghost gum and zebra finches.

The wettest and the greenest is in the near permanent shade of the Mutijulu waterhole. People defecated on the rock when climbing was allowed; Mutijulu won’t be safe for human consumption for 20 more years.

Greenery at Uluṟu Rich green around Uluṟu Ghost gums at Uluṟu Dry grass near Uluṟu Ghost gum near Mutijulu waterhole, Uluṟu Rock face near Mutijulu waterhole, Uluṟu Marching upwards, Uluṟu

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