With the festive season passed and a green Christmas at that, how about I take you on another hike from the distant past. This is one I remember because it was the last one where our grandson went with me and I can always picture him on the trail, the year before they moved out west. We picked a nearby section of the Bruce Trail where I was the volunteer Land Steward, so I know it really well.
One of the memorable features is this giant old Sugar Maple, split into a large enough hollow that our grandson could pose there.
After crossing a dry streambed we walked up a little rise in the Sugar Maple forest to find these true giants of the original forest.
Three or four of the tall trees here could be considered 'old growth', no side branches for the first 60 feet or so.
The most mature patch of forest I've found anywhere.
Here's our son Matt (in his new Christmas hat) and grandson.
The most surprising sight of the trail is a long waterfall tumbling down over the bedrock emerging right beneath a distant chalet.
It tumbles over the narrow ledges of the Manitoulin Formation,
before it comes to a short cliff.
One of the prettiest little sections of the trail if you ask me. And it was a great post-Christmas mornint walk, on Christmas Day 8 years ago.
Is that a lodge or a home higher up? Love the photos of the water tumbling down amid mossy green foliage, nature at its best.
ReplyDeleteSuch a lovely post ...great photographs.
ReplyDeleteAll the best Jan
Large old sugar maples are some of my favorite trees, most of them are remnants of long-ago sugarbushes where I occasionally find an old sap pail.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful pictures, and memories that come streaming back from all those years ago. Thanks, friend.
ReplyDeleteNice memory. Wonder if that tree is still standing!
ReplyDeleteI love memory stories! That's a beautiful little waterfall.
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful place to walk, and such lovely memories too.
ReplyDeleteNice old growth place, and that 'waterfall' is/was quite pretty. It must had been hard when they moved west.
ReplyDeleteNeat waterfall! Looks like you had a good company for the walk.
ReplyDeleteI particularly liked that little waterfall lazily trickling and tumbling it's way down through the rocks on it's long wayward journey to the mighty oceans of the world.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful landscapes.
ReplyDeleteThis is a wonderful post. Happy New Year to you both.
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