Algonquin Park is noted for its beautiful autumn colours. The contrast of the scarlet sugar maples and golden birches against the dark greens of the evergreen trees is magnificent. This photo was taken in the parking lot at the West Gate.
Km 4.5:
The Oxtongue River from the Whiskey Rapids Trail.
West of Algonquin Provincial Park, there are two other provincial parks
on the Oxtongue River: Ragged Falls and
Oxtongue Rapids.
Km 15.5:
Joe Lake from the abandoned railway up the Arowhon Road.
Joe Lake from the abandoned railway up the Arowhon Road.
Km 15.5:
A Canada jay (also called grey jay or whiskey jack) along the Mizzy Lake Trail. It was very tame and took turns sitting on everyone's finger. Photo by Bill Sherwood.
A Canada jay (also called grey jay or whiskey jack) along the Mizzy Lake Trail. It was very tame and took turns sitting on everyone's finger. Photo by Bill Sherwood.
Km 14:
Smoke Lake from the Hardwood Lookout Trail.
Km 20:
Found Lake from the Algonquin Art Centre parking lot.
The Art Centre shows paintings by Canadian artists, including Group of
Seven artists, Tom Thompson and Robert Bateman.
There are also painting courses offered during the summer.
I visited the Art Centre while Bill and our friends hiked the Mizzy Lake Trail. After looking at the art exhibits, I sat outside and painted the pictures below of Found Lake and of birch trees.
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At the Mew Lake Campground we hiked along the old railway bed towards Lake of Two Rivers. We stopped to admire this waterfall on the Madawaska River.
Along the way we saw several mushrooms with bright red
caps. I think it is Russula emetica and is poisonous like the ones in
Europe. The name emetica means that it causes vomiting. Pretty but do
not pick!
Across Highway 60 from the Two Rivers Store is the Two Rivers Trail. It leads to a high cliff looking down on the Madawaska River valley.
Two Rivers Trail.
A full house in the Algonquin Outdoor Theatre for the talk on wolves before the Public Wolf Howl. Photo by Bill Sherwood,
Cars lining up along both sides of Highway 60 for a
Public Wolf Howl. Photo by Bill Sherwood.
Pog Lake Campground. Pog Lake is on the Madawaska River between Whitefish Lake and Lake of Two Rivers.
Setting out on a canoe trip from Pog Lake to the west
end of Lake of Two Rivers and back. Of course there was a headwind all
the way.
Fall colours along the Lookout Trail.
Kearney Lake from Lookout Trail.
Reflections on Rock Creek beside the road into Rock Lake Campground.
Reflections can be deceiving. This made me think of
First Nation stories about Nanabush, the Trickster.
A loon stretching its wings after catching and eating
a very big fish.
I thought I had missed him in the photo above but he
came back and posed only a couple of metres from me to have his picture
taken just a few minutes later.
A close-up of the pictograph at the lower left in the
above photo. It looks like a deer or moose with its legs splayed out to
the sides. Photo by Bill Sherwood.
Scorpius, Sagitarius and the Milky Way over Rock Lake
where we had a beautiful clear, dark night sky. Photo by Bill Sherwood.
Sunset over Rock Lake.
Rock Lake sunset, July 2015
Another glorious sunset over Rock Lake during our July
2015 stay.
Spruce Bog Trail, across Highway 60 from the Algonquin Visitor Centre.
Yellow waterlilly from Spruce Bog Trail.
A pitcher plant along the Spruce Bog Trail.
This photo was taken on August 30, 2012. I have seen pitcher plants in
the spring with dark red flowers and reddish-orange pitchers but never
before a green one and so late in the year.
The view from the balcony of the Algonquin Visitor Centre.
Km 45:
A beaver dam on the Beaver Pond Trail.
A beaver dam on the Beaver Pond Trail.
The pond behind the beaver dam on the Beaver
Pond Trail.
A beaver lodge from the Beaver Pond Trail.
