Sunday, January 14, 2018

Sunny Day and the Bay is Blue

When I first thought of writing a post showing the moods of Georgian Bay, I didn't live here, and only saw the bay occasionally.  Now that I live here I realize that its mood changes every day, and sometimes hour by hour.  After those angry waves two days ago, today it was a peaceful blue under our first sunny day in a long time!

Under blue skies and a gentle south-west wind, there were ripples but no significant waves.

But a wide band of ice has built up along the shoreline, which is only a few feet from the left side of the picture.  It looks solid, but I'm not sure it is.

When I was there in the fall, the water was lapping up against the line of boulders on the right.  I expect those heavy waves helped build up a lot of this ice, but there's no sign of the bay itself freezing.

The two big boulders I always look for were totally ice-covered.  I wondered to myself what these looked like in Friday's storm.

To the east long stretches of ice had built up, extending out into the bay.

To the west you could see the breakwalls and harbour light.

Some of those houses up there must have a spectacular view of the bay!


21 comments:

  1. You keep giving this Floridian a chill. I guess that'll happen a lot...following you

    :)

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  2. Wow!!! In my case "nothing like quite this for cooling the blood" a glimpse of your beautiful bay, the snow, ice and cool water is so refreshing as we swelter again in temps of over 31C. stunning colours.

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  3. It's a moody bay and you caught it's expressions.

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  4. it sounds a bit like our ocean here. i love the blue hues, it is a beautiful place with it's moods!!!

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  5. Much prettier photos today, very interesting change from the other day. I wonder too who lives on the hill and do they watch the water all day...I would:)

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  6. Mighty cold even if a lot calmer. Those are some beautiful pictures.

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  7. I think the St Lawrence river is frozen

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  8. Nice to see the beautiful pictures!

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  9. Chilly looking, but absolutely beautiful. If you had the time and inclination it would be interesting to find a photogenic spot along the shore and take one photo a week (same day of the week) to illustrate the moods of the bay. Or, a time lapse of a day of changing weather would be neat; something like this --https://vimeo.com/250542304

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  10. Hello, beautiful blues and lovely views of the bay. It looks so cold! Happy Monday, enjoy your new week!

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  11. Beautiful day, blue skies, and an incredible set of photographs. I felt like I was there. :-)

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  12. Kind of hard to believe it is the same place...but I know it is. Sure beautiful this day!

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  13. Just gorgeous, Stew. Aren't you glad that you live near there now --and can take pictures by the day/hour/season, etc. of that beautiful bay....

    Thanks for sharing.
    Hugs,
    Betsy

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  14. Wow what a difference. Sure looks beautiful and peaceful.

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  15. Just gorgeous. I would love to visit. One day maybe.

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  16. Beautiful photographs ...

    All the best Jan

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