Saturday, December 23, 2023

Festival of Northern Lights

Owen Sound has a yearly Christmas light display which they label the 'Festival of Northern Lights'.  They're not northern lights, but they're fun to go and see.  The original display is downtown along the river, but in recent years they have expanded to Harrison Park, so after our dinner we drove around to see the dinosaurs and other Christmassy things!

A polar bear watches as you enter the display.

Then you drive through a tunnel of flashing lights.

To find the farm!

And here are the dinosaurs, unfortunately partly hidden by Santa in his sleight.

Another dinosaur behind an erupting volcano.

I presume this is supposed to be a pterodactyl.

Then we leave the land of the dinosaurs and come to the campground, with its castle guarding the entrance.

Some really nice lights in this area (imho), but then we ended up in a deadend and had to circle back out.  Good enough for our annual visit.

If you want to see real northern lights, just google 'northern  lights' and choose 'video'.  They are spectacular!

And Happy Holidays everyone!


15 comments:

  1. We really appreciate lights at this time of year. Beautiful. Merry Christmas!

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  2. Merry Christmas to you both and your family, the lights are stunning, my dream would be to see the Northern Lights in reality, guess I am lucky to have seen the Southern Lights from the North Island once.The Igloo or the castle, my picks, a lot of work and thought throughout.

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  3. I enjoyed seeing the lights through your photographs.
    Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays.

    All the best Jan

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  4. Not sure dino is my idea of a Christmas light display, but they're well done; I much prefer the igloo, the trees and the barn. Happy Holidays to you and yours and thank you for all your enjoyable posts.

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  5. Interesting displays. Merry Christmas to you and your family.

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  6. While we’ve seen northern lights in Newfoundland, not here on PEI. Goal for the coming year maybe…

    Merry Christmas!

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  7. That's fun! We did a tour of my daughter's town last night to see the lights. I'm not sure where the dinosaurs come from, but we saw several blow-ups with presents in their mouths. One assumes Canadian Tire had a sale last year. :p

    Merry Christmas to you and Mrs. F.G.!

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  8. I've been asked, via a comment on my blog, to pass on Christmas Wishes to you and Mrs FG from "Georgina from CheeseburgerCrisps" who has been unable to post a comment on your blog. And a Merry Christmas from me too!

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  9. Wonderful to see your Northern LIghts! Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! :-)

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  10. I always enjoy seeing colored lighting at night. The more bigger badder colors the better. Merry Christmas to you both.

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  11. It looks like a varied and colourful display. Merry Christmas.

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