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Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« on: June 30, 2014, 09:42:00 am »

Just returned from a wonderful week of camping, hiking, canoeing and photography in this gem of a park. Killarney is located in the northeast corner of Georgian Bay (part of Lake Huron), although only part of the park is along the shore. The bulk of its 600+km2 is pure and raw Canadian Shield: lakes and trees and trees and rocks. Geologically, Killarney is best known for the juxtaposition of a 1.5 billion year old pink granite pluton against the backdrop of the 2.25 billion-year-old white quartzite LaCloche Range of hills that were once mountains higher than the Himalayas.

Anyway - enough of the geology. Here are a few photographs. The garden variety lupines growing wild along the roadside were an unexpected treat; the rain just brought them alive with colour. AY jackson Lake was named after the Group of Seven artist who worked to have parts of this area protected from logging. The George Lake view is a "classic" Killarney landscape.

Enjoy! C&C welcome.
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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #1 on: June 30, 2014, 12:22:53 pm »

All fine, but I like the striped maple especially.

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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #2 on: June 30, 2014, 01:19:28 pm »

All fine, but I like the striped maple especially.
Me, too.
What a gorgeous place to camp, hike, and photograph!
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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #3 on: June 30, 2014, 04:26:25 pm »

Wonderfully luminous, warm b&w!

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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2014, 05:04:22 pm »

Killarney park is described in the travel brochures as the Ontario crown jewel, and it fully deserves that title.
That cliff on George Lake is a classic, and you captured it very nicely, Terry! I would guess, it was in the early morning. 
Did it get windy in the east part of George Lake and on Freeland lake?
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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2014, 06:43:23 pm »

Killarney park is described in the travel brochures as the Ontario crown jewel, and it fully deserves that title.
That cliff on George Lake is a classic, and you captured it very nicely, Terry! I would guess, it was in the early morning. 
Did it get windy in the east part of George Lake and on Freeland lake?


Thanks, Les. Yes it was early morning (once we had alerted the warden service about the young bear in the next campsite!)

We didn't encounter any problems with wind. In fact, after the rain Tuesday, we had four lovely, near perfect days. Folks we met up with were out canoeing on the big water on Friday and found it nearly calm.
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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #6 on: July 01, 2014, 04:01:16 am »

I like #s 2 and 3, the latter particularly because of the light on dark juxtaposition of the flowers and rock.

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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #7 on: July 03, 2014, 02:26:51 am »

Brings back memories. I haven't been in Killarney since the 80s (a good friend was a park ranger), but back then the lakes were beautiful, crystal clear... and ecologically dead, with a pH of between 4 and 5. Mostly do to that big smokestack 80 km or so to the northeast. Still, a beautiful place to be... even though one little girl on the beach wouldn't go into the water because of the sharks.  :P

Mike.
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Re: Killarney Provincial Park, Ontario
« Reply #8 on: July 03, 2014, 02:47:06 pm »

The big smoke stacks have been since shut or tamed, the lakes have recovered, yet they are still very clear. I've seen fish, snakes, loons, beavers, even some black bears in the water.
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