Live life off leash
Mer Bleue (Blue Sea) Bog
Our walk locations usually get second billing to yours truly, but today we give two of them the headlines in both of our Saturday photos because they are such a large part of Dad's photostream.
The Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area is the remnants of the Ottawa River system that flowed through here about 7500 years ago, which has migrated about five kilometers north to it's present location.
The Area still holds a number of ponds that retain water throughout the year, and the peat bogs in some locations are a couple of meters deep.
We see lots of wildlife: beaver, heron, deer, moose, weasel, fox, coyote, coywolf, and even a pair of eastern wolves, which are a subspecies of gray wolf.
It's almost impossible to get me in photos with any of these creatures, as most are seen at a distance and they don't hang around for photos the way I do! But it's great to just be out there with them in the natural world, feeling like my ancestors did.
Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area. Ottawa, Ontario
Saturday Morning Post, October 10 2016
235. Clancy, 3yrs 47wks
Mer Bleue (Blue Sea) Bog
Our walk locations usually get second billing to yours truly, but today we give two of them the headlines in both of our Saturday photos because they are such a large part of Dad's photostream.
The Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area is the remnants of the Ottawa River system that flowed through here about 7500 years ago, which has migrated about five kilometers north to it's present location.
The Area still holds a number of ponds that retain water throughout the year, and the peat bogs in some locations are a couple of meters deep.
We see lots of wildlife: beaver, heron, deer, moose, weasel, fox, coyote, coywolf, and even a pair of eastern wolves, which are a subspecies of gray wolf.
It's almost impossible to get me in photos with any of these creatures, as most are seen at a distance and they don't hang around for photos the way I do! But it's great to just be out there with them in the natural world, feeling like my ancestors did.
Mer Bleue Bog Conservation Area. Ottawa, Ontario
Saturday Morning Post, October 10 2016
235. Clancy, 3yrs 47wks