tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53905449844741387032024-02-07T03:42:49.365-05:00THE ACCIDENTALCANOEISTThe tale of my serendipitous<br>
journey to becoming a paddler<br>
of some of the world's finest<br>
canoes, in some of the world's<br>
most fantastic country...<br>
<br>
<br>
H2O Canoe Company<br>
"Boundary 17-6" at the<br>
take out on High Falls<br>
Lake, Algonquin Park,<br>
August 2017Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.comBlogger67125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-67339085918975988582024-01-27T20:27:00.003-05:002024-01-28T09:40:14.395-05:00HIGH FALLS AND THE CASCADES - August 2023, Part 3 of 4<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQDj60z6vPXmNwIHqJo4P1f4ApKJhjja0DDngXZFMJlPSfO8tEUdqRTXaL7YWc2HuYHxsslUA7Gj4Tib1n9krv69bRA8TEQWS3ZnCeV7Twlcb0Gq0zQApypxVy5p8LTNZUXaoMV0UfrzEEFP2s_26v1W2xvNyWwBahpieVkzhs3pWsfmYwSl55Kd8u5Q/s4288/DSC_4265.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="4288" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQQDj60z6vPXmNwIHqJo4P1f4ApKJhjja0DDngXZFMJlPSfO8tEUdqRTXaL7YWc2HuYHxsslUA7Gj4Tib1n9krv69bRA8TEQWS3ZnCeV7Twlcb0Gq0zQApypxVy5p8LTNZUXaoMV0UfrzEEFP2s_26v1W2xvNyWwBahpieVkzhs3pWsfmYwSl55Kd8u5Q/w640-h426/DSC_4265.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<span style="font-size: large;">A fairly easy and spectacular day trip into the Barron Canyon can be done by driving to the small Brigham Lake parking lot, putting in, and following the Barron River downstream into the Barron Canyon. If you paddle just the length of the canyon and then return, it is about four hours. If you make it to Cache Rapids (worth seeing) the round trip can be six or seven hours. Add in a hike of the Barron Canyon trail, and you have a solid day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">THE CASCADES / HIGH FALLS DAY TRIP:</span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;">A nice one day up the cascades to high falls starts by parking at the Brigham Lake lot, and putting in but going upstream along 'The Cascades'. Four portages will get you to High Falls lake, which is beautiful, and after paddling the length of the lake, you can explore the main portage along the river to St. Andrews Lake, or the side trail to check out High Falls. If you hit the water by nine in the morning, you can lunch at the take out at High Falls, and get back to your car by three or four in the afternoon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Book a campsite on Opalescent Lake, put in at Brigham Lake, paddling to your campsite and setting up camp, return to the Barron River light, and spend the rest of the day exploring the canyon, at least to Cache Rapids, then return to Opalescent for the night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After a very nice night in total darkness, with the wind picking up and keening through the treetops off and on, and a little light rain or drizzle, we woke just before 8 AM, made a quick breakfast, cleaned up and broke camp, and headed for the canoe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">As we paddled out, we saw another canoeist loading his canoe at the far portage, which was a long loop that relatively few travelled, due to the two kilometer length of one of the portages on it, we paddled out and joined him as we all headed to the portage to St. Andrews Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Shawn (or Sean) had been fishing on the next lake over for the last few days, and had just also broken camp and was on his way out of the park. Alex and I started the portage first, and did two trips, Shawn being much younger hoisted two packs and a canoe, and did it in a trip and a half, and overtook us. Approaching the put in, negotiating the very steep slope, I managed to slip, and have the canoe come crashing down, crushing my pinky finger against a rock. Inspecting the damage was a bit hard due to the blood all over the place, but it looked like pinky was intact, but suffering a rather nasty gash exposing the muscle and tendons below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">After visiting Barry's bay hospital, my pinky finger in a bandage the next morning. I must have lost about a pint of blood in total.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">We reached the south end of High Falls Lake shortly before two in the afternoon, and made the half kilometer portage to St. Andrews Lake in one trip. The portage follows the Barron River as it drains St. Andrews Lake to High Falls Lake, but High Falls themselves are not on this course of the river, but on the course that drains Stratton Lake to High Falls Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Nevertheless, this course of the river has a spectacular lower fall, numerous rapids, and a large bouldery fall near the top. The portage rises about twenty meters, but is a nice easy walk. We took a second break at the put in at St. Andrews Lake, then made our way down a short way to the portage to Marie Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The Portage from St. Andrews Lake to Marie Lake was particularly brutal, as it was the longest at about 750 meters, and had a roughly eighty meter rise followed by a forty meter drop. The first fifty meters was a very steep slope. We did this in two trips, one with packs, and second with the canoe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Marie Lake was small, and just a hundred yards or so from the put-in was one of only two campsites on the lake. It looked good from a distance, and better from up close, so we started a fire, set up the tent, and relaxed before dinner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Looking north over High Falls Lake, the Bob Special 15 is at the take out for the portage to St. Andrews Lake, directly behind me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alexander showing off his scout knife, purchased in San Diego, at two points on the portage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alexander recharging himself before we set off for the Marie Lake portage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Approaching the camp site we chose at Marie Lake. Tall white pines, a carpet of pine needles, and quite level - perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The tent that got us into this adventure... it was simple to set up, roomy, light, and kept us dry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The forecast held, and we had everything packed and ready to go for leaving Tavistock and heading for the cottage on Thursday Afternoon. The plan was to drive to Barrie via Arther, pick up the last couple of supplies at MEC in Barrie, then drive to the cottage to spend the night. Friday we would leave for the park and make it in to our booked campsite on Marie Lake, and then Saturday head back out for a night at the cottage, driving back to Tavistock Sunday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">Leaving Tavistock at 4:30, we pulled into the MEC in Barrie exactly two hours later, and began looking for a few items... bear spray, a pot, a small dry bag, and an Led tent light Alexander wanted. Assistance was provided by a gregarious and passionate young man named Brenan, who helped us choose the dry sac for sealing up and hanging the small quantity of food we were taking in, and selecting a nice pot. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">We got back on the road, and had a trouble free drive up highway 11 to Huntsville, and then across highway 60 to the cottage.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The next morning I attached the crossbars to the Honda roof rack, Alexander and I loaded up the canoe and our gear, and we headed off to the Sand Lake access, from Barry's Bay to Round Lake, across the Bonnechere on the one lane bridge and up Red Rock Road, then the Pembroke road to Alice, and across country via Station Hill Road and then Barron Canyon Road to the gate. We checked in, got our tickets, and then headed to the Brigham Lake parking lot and our put in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Parked at the small lot at the Brigham Lake put in, the canoe is an unmarked H20 Composites 'Bob Special 15'.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">About 200 yards from the parking lot is the upstream put in, for our trip up 'The Cascades', a series of small lakes and sections of river, peppered with a half dozen portages to get up to St. Andrews Lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A small lake on the first section of water, heading for the first portage. My bowman Alex impressed me greatly, this is one of very few shots of him with his paddle out of the water!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Setting out on our first portage, Alexander took his pack and the paddles, and I took my pack and the canoe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The take out for the second portage, approximately 245 meters, long, after a half kilometer of paddling on the Barron River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Just between the portage trail and the river was an ancient timber shed probably used in the days they ran logs down the Barron River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">A view inside the timber shed, it looks like it only had three sides, so may have been a place for storing equipment, as the open side was to the east, away from the weather.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Alexander coined this the valet parking at the third take out, two logs you can paddle your canoe between, the much can be deep, so step on logs and rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Setting out on High Falls lake after portage number four, a mostly level but very bouldery 450 meter portage. High Falls lake is approximately a mile (1.5 kilometers) long, so a nice paddle but watch for submerged rocks at the north part of the lake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The last of our two visits to the cottage this summer was without Rudi, who had a one week session at Camp Oochageas near Huntsville. We left Tavistock before lunch on Sunday, driving across country via Arthur and Creemore to arrive at the camp for the three pm drop off time, then drove to the cottage via Highway 60, the West and East gates of the park Park, and Whitney and Madawaska, arriving in time for dinner with John and Susan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I had decided sometime during our week at the cottage to take Alexander on a day trip into Algonquin, and rather than the Barron Canyon, which is always spectacular, I felt that finding High Falls would be a great in and out trip for an enjoyable day. Two summers earlier, Rudi and I along with uncle John and his friend Chris did an overnight into Achray and Barron, and on the second day we went upstream on the Barron river, eventually seeing a series of waterfalls draining into High Falls lake, but only on returning home and checking maps did I determine we did not find High Falls themselves, but an imposter on an adjacent arm of the river.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">After two visits to the hospital in Barry's Bay about a week apart, Rudi was diagnosed with a collapsed lung, but more serious was the swollen lymph system evidently causing it. An ORNGE helicopter flight to Ottawa, and two days of tests while in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at CHEO, we learned the diagnosis... T-Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia.</span></div>
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<br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-66696912550793516572014-06-09T17:38:00.003-04:002017-09-07T23:17:17.885-04:00ASSEMBLING THE NEW FLEET<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Having essentially depleted my 'fleet' of any good quality canoes for the cottage and tripping, I decided over the last winter to try to assemble a small collection of boats
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Sometime late this past winter, I emailed Jeff to see if he had any 'cosmetic defect' or 'manufacturer seconds' available, boats that were waiting for cash from prospective purchasers before Jeff could commit to finishing them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">He emailed me a list of a dozen or so canoes, all of which were 'firsts' yet on sale, representing great value. Of them all, the one that interested me most was a kevlar 17-6 Boundary, on sale for $2500, which was conveniently located at Jeff's shop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">It all started out well, albeit a little bit windy, and with those vaguely ominous little puffy clouds scudding southward overhead. Paddling was a little tough, be we made decent time down the Little Mississipi to our first break at the point that marks the entrance to the marsh.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">On entering the marsh, the wind picked up a bit, and made paddling more challenging. Additionally, just over the Craigmont hill it appeared a squall had formed, and had us right in its path. I decided to try to cover more water, and lashed the boys canoe to mine to keep them in line, and really dug in. Still, progress was slow, and sure enough in less than twenty minutes the nasty weather hit, wind driving at least 50kmh, heavy rain, and the water on the marsh pushing back up into half foot tall standing waves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">About two kilometers past the end of the canyon, the river widened considerably into a marshy lake, and we pulled the boats up to a campsite to have a swim. Rudi 11 facing away tying up his shorts, AJ 12 looking over his shoulder at Alexander 5. This is after a seven hour day of paddling and hauling canoes over portages. Tough little kids!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After a season generally away from canoeing for a number of reasons, including cataract surgery on my left eye last summer, Rudi, Alexander and I got back into it in grand style shortly after leaving for our first visit to the cottage over the summer holidays.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-11038078997966404432013-07-22T12:35:00.000-04:002017-09-08T07:04:19.226-04:00ALL LOADED UP...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I owed Jeff a favour, so talked to him a week or so before we headed to the cottage. It turns out he had two H20 Canoes that were special ordered, and needed to be delivered to Frontenac Outfitters, along with a kayak that had been sent to him for repair. Timing worked out quite well, the boats were loaded on the van the night before, just after we had the van packed for our two weeks or so at the cottage (along with a washing machine, and a wheelbarrow). Here is the van at about six the next morning, just before I headed out for Kingston. Katherine and the boys would head out later in the little car, and meet me later that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The last canoe trip of the 2011 season was a short trip on the Madawaska, at Madawaska, of course.
Rudi and I put in just off the highway, behind the community centre, which has a brand new gravel ramp and high quality dock. There were a few other boaters there, a couple putting in a small aluminum outboard boat, and a family returning with a larger sport boat.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-64266774202253603972012-09-06T21:31:00.000-04:002017-10-07T08:48:27.209-04:00CONROY MARSH - THE TAKE OUT<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After a long hiatus (my apologies, there are reasons) I have once again returned to the blogs... This is a photograph of Rudi at our take out at Conroy Marsh, after our big paddle looking for the Ghost of AJ Casson. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">About 100 feet to the left of the picture is the put in, right into a bay off of the main channel, which then runs directly away from my (the photographers) position, toward the hill in the left background, and then to the right to proceed down between the hills. If you click on the picture, you should be able to just make out the blue line of the main channel. </span><span style="font-family: georgia, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;">This was late mid summer 2011, some time after which we hung up the paddles, stored the canoe, and headed back to Tavistock, and school for Rudi and work for me.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-76876429357958728842011-09-27T20:56:00.009-04:002017-09-08T08:13:31.289-04:00CASSON AND THE CONROY MARSH - EPILOGUE<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Quite a few years back, driving as a courier, I was asked to do a late afternoon delivery from Kitchener to Newmarket. Knowing that it was already after two in the afternoon, the delivery would put me in Newmarket just in time for a gruelling two and a half hour drive home, and late for dinner. Making a hundred odd bucks didn't really appeal to me that much, but I was the only driver able to do it, and had been able to make it home in a timely fashion for at least the previous week.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Twenty minutes later, the box had been picked up, and I was on my way. I arrived in Newmarket around 4:30, and within ten minutes had dropped off the package, filed some paperwork, and reported the delivery as completed. I restarted the van, and began what would be a long, hard drive back to Tavistock. Turning on to Davis Drive, I suddenly realized that Dave and Judy, very close friends of Katherine's parents, were probably only a five minute drive away. And I was somewhat certain I had heard them say "drop by anytime..." not realizing of course I was the type of person to take another up on an open offer like that! Now was the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Driving by memory, as I didn't have either their phone number or address (good couriers do have some skills!) I soon found their house, parked the van, and walked up the steps to the front door. I had a brief second thought about simply walking up and inviting myself in, but there was that open invitation, AND the fact I had participated in their Christmas Dinner and charade game experience! How the heck could they not happily let me in! Confidence restored, I rang the doorbell...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">...And Dave answered, completely surprised of course! I was warmly greeted, and upon explaining the reason for my unexpected visit, I was ushered in for dinner... Which was leftovers... On the grandest scale! There was soup (chilled cucumber I recall) and another appetizer for starters, mains of yesterdays roast chicken, along with fresh steamed veggies, and dessert of pie and ice cream, along with a couple of glasses of wine. But better than that was the conversation, specifics long forgotton, but burned in my memory the laughing and fun we had, especially with Judy's real time commentary on the operatic style performance of the neighbor behind, bellowing and singing (lovingly of course) at her errant kids, goading them to do their chores, help with laundry, tidy up, and get to dinner on time! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Two hours and two phone calls later updating Katherine, I thanked them and took my leave. It was closing in on seven in the evening, and the drive home was not even 90 minutes, calm, quiet, cross country, and very relaxing as well...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Judy Gordon passed away this summer after a short battle with cancer. She was sixty nine years old, and left her husband Dave, and children Heather and Bryan. She will be sorely missed by many, including those upon whose living room wall hangs a small but beautiful painting titled "Conroy Marsh" by AJ Casson; the wedding gift from her and Dave.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-61161550021310773892011-08-04T13:55:00.003-04:002017-10-07T08:55:17.650-04:00CASSON AND THE CONROY MARSH - PART 5<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After checking out the duck blind, and about ninety minutes on the water, we turned around and began to head back to our put in at Mayhew Landing. Unfortunately, nothing of the scene depicted in Casson's painting could be identified specifically, however the painting had a number of elements that we did see examples of on our paddle. We covered about one-third of the length of the Marsh, so it is quite possible the scene depicted was at the western end, somewhere near where the York River enters the marsh, as we have entered via the Little Mississippi, and I could not recognice the scene there either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">A further half hour of paddling and noodling around brought us to another large 'lakelet' just to the south of the main channel. A few hundred metres ahead I could make out a small structure, of wooden poles fastned together. We paddled over to it, the water generally about a foot deep here, and took a closer look. My first guess from its size was that it was a hunting blind, as it was large enough to park a small aluminum boat in.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-24304274476225297582011-08-02T18:36:00.004-04:002017-09-08T08:12:58.110-04:00CASSON AND THE CONROY MARSH - PART 3<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">After playing leapfrog with the Beaver for a few more minutes, we continued paddling westward, exploring the marsh areas to the north of the main channel. The water level of the Marsh is controlled by the Palmer Rapids control dam, which is one of a series of several dams on the Madawaska river that are situated and operated to control water levels for the 'large' hydroelectric dam at Arnprior on the Madawaska, near its outlet into the Ottawa River.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;">The Marsh level, based on some reading, is roughly four feet higher than prior to the installation of the control dam, and must have altered the habitat and ecosystems of the Marsh to a degree. Currently, the marsh has a river channel that varies between 100 and 300 feet wide or more, which is quite deep, upwards of 10 to 20 feet in most places. The rest of the marsh appears to be made up of two different ecosystems: Flooded shallow lake areas, with a water depth between one and four feet deep, thick with water lillies and other fully aquatic plants; and fully saturated areas with ground that rises slightly above the water level, completely covered in wet loving grasses and sedges. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Looking west still, and now we are on the extreme south shore of the Marsh, in the main river channel. The small spot on the hill ahead is likely the opening of the shaft of the Craigmont Mine.</span></div>
Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-92175917116257038712011-08-01T21:55:00.006-04:002017-09-08T07:57:17.994-04:00CASSON AND THE CONROY MARSH - PART 2<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After stopping in Combermere at the internet hotspot / cafe / laundromat for a maple blend coffee and to find out if there is a fair place to put on the north side of the Conroy Marsh, we drove south on old highway 517 and then Lower Craigmont road to the hamlet of Mayhew Landing. Unlike the vast majority of Ontario cottage country, the road access here was on the lake side of the waterfront properties, and in Ontario would generally be considered a public allowance: I tried knocking on two of the cottages closest to the end of the road to ask if we could use their waterfront or even dock to put in, though there was no answer. We took our gear and canoe to the first dock, and loaded up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Immediately looking out to the left, the marsh continued just a few hundred metres before opening into Negeek Lake on the Madawaska River. This is where the marsh channel, actually the York River, ends and empties into the Mighty Madawaska.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We turned west, and paddled into the marsh, which stretched away at least five miles in front of us. Just fifteen minutes of easy paddling brought us to a large beaver lodge. As we approached within about fifty feet, there was a quick flash of brown, and a large slap of a beaver tail against water! Knowing that they were aware of us now, we turned to the left and away from the lodge. Immediately beneath and to the right of the canoe there was a large turbulence of the bottom silt, with large clouds of muck roiling away underneath and alongside the canoe, moving ahead as we paddled forward. A panicked thought of mammoth canoe tipping beavers flashed into my mind, quickly dispelled of course! Within half a minute, a brown head popped up fifty yards ahead of the canoe! We paddled towards it, and after closing half the distance, he dove under, only to appear a few hundred feet further along. </span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-19373072537967506002011-07-27T22:42:00.002-04:002017-09-08T07:56:07.840-04:00AJ CASSON AND THE CONROY MARSH<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">My wife and I received a lovely framed print of "Conroy Marsh" by AJ Casson for our wedding. It was wonderfully thoughtful, as the Conroy Marsh is very close to our cottage near Barry's Bay, and is also a lovely examply of fine Canadian and Group of Seven art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">It took up residence in our formal living room at the Field house, above a wonderful little nearly antique bookcase. There it hung for many a year, and still does, occasionally reminding me of a still mostly wild part of Canada. Upon getting serious about canoeing about four years ago or so, my wife reminded me of it, and I then purposefully thought about finding the Conroy Marsh, to explore it via canoe.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">After exploring various ways in to the Conroy Marsh over the last two years, my father in law recently reminded me of the painting, and suggested Rudi and I look for the site the next time we get into the marsh.</span></div>
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Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-70803996274485305442011-07-21T21:33:00.001-04:002017-10-06T23:08:21.025-04:00THE REPLACEMENTS!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">We finally got to the cottage for the first time this year, and on the way, picked up an older, relatively well used, repainted fibreglass canoe, for use while the 'Cottage Coleman' undergoes it's slow and tedious restoration. I needed to find a canoe for a hundred and change, and not out of the way of our drive up to Barry's Bay. A few visits to Kijiji later, and I found a gentleman selling a canoe located just outside of Bancroft. She ain't pretty, but she floats, holds a line well, and paddles easily. Here is a picture of Rudi with our gear after taking out of the Conroy Marsh at Mayhew Landing near Combermere.
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<br />Davidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12482362212477885027noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5390544984474138703.post-11707496686968194852010-09-01T20:34:00.001-04:002017-10-06T23:02:59.108-04:00CARSON LAKE - Finding Sleeping Bear Rock<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">I headed out for a short canoe trip with just Alexander, down the lake along the shore and the old Ottawa, Arnprior, and Parry Sound railway line, just for a bit of fun. An interesting little trip it was, as we encountered a boat with four divers in scuba gear beginning a one hour search of the lake just below a large boulder railway embankment, at the bottom of which (as legend has it) lie the entombed remains of a short freight train! Having paddled the area numerous times, I have never seen rotting railcars peering from the murky depths, but one of the divers was insistent that he saw such a thing while paddling in the area a number of years back.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Further along, Alexander and I made our turn around at 'Sleeping Bear Rock', a near 100 tonne boulder that closely resembles a napping black bear cub! </span><br />
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