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We woke up that morning to our final full day in Canada and we decided to speedrun as much of Toronto as we could manage. Unfortunately due to constraints of distance and endurance we barely scratched the surface. There will need to be a next time. So what was the most Canadian way to start […] The post Ontario, Day 8 (Toronto Tourist) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
We left the southern shores of Georgian Bay and I already missed the area. It turned out great even if I knew next to nothing about it before I researched the trip. However, all things come to an end and now I had a better-known part of Ontario to explore. I hadn’t spent any time […] The post Ontario, Day 7 (Toronto Orientation) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
Our time along the southern tip of Georgian Bay was quickly drawing to an end but we still had one more destination along the shoreline towards the northwest. But first I took my final early morning stroll through Collingwood before the family woke up. I retraced some of the more memorable routes from earlier in […] The post Ontario, Day 6 (Owen Sound) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
As I planned the trip, I tried to intersperse mellow days with active days and most of the time I followed those guidelines. Originally Day 5 was designed as something low-key in Collingwood without any driving. However, plans shifted a tiny bit and we did more than we anticipated. Hen and Chicken Island I ducked […] The post Ontario, Day 5 (Lake and Caves) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
I had absolutely no idea how to pronounce Penetanguishene, and I still don’t. Typing it isn’t any easier. I had to cut-and-paste the name to make sure I got it right. Nonetheless, that’s where we pointed the car on our fourth day in Ontario, about an hour northeast of Collingwood. Notice that I mentioned road […] The post Ontario, Day 4 (Penetanguishene and Beyond) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
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As discussed in the previous post, the gray wolf has made a remarkable but controversial recovery in Europe. The same is true in the United States. In the mid twentieth century, wolves were found only in Alaska, far northeastern Minnesota, and the western half of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. A few may have lived in northern […] The post The Controversial Expansion of Gray Wolves in the United States appeared first on GeoCurrents.
We woke up that morning to our final full day in Canada and we decided to speedrun as much of Toronto as we could manage. Unfortunately due to constraints of distance and endurance we barely scratched the surface. There will need to be a next time. So what was the most Canadian way to start […] The post Ontario, Day 8 (Toronto Tourist) appeared first on Twelve Mile Circle - An Appreciation of Unusual Places.
