Scarborough Bluffs : In warm autumn morning light . . .
The Scarborough Bluffs, also known as The Bluffs, is an escarpment in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are nine parks along the bluffs, with Bluffers Park being the only one with a beach. Forming much of the eastern portion of Toronto's waterfront, the Scarborough Bluffs stands above the shoreline of Lake Ontario. At its highest point, the escarpment rises 90 metres (300 ft) above the coastline and spans a length of 15 kilometres (9.3 mi).
The Scarborough Bluffs are a unique sequence of glacial sediments on the shore of Lake Ontario. They represent approximately 60,000 years of glacial history and are one of the last remaining, and most complete, records of the Wisconsinan glacial advance at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.
The French gave the name "Les Grands Ecores", or tall points on the shore, to the cliffs. In the 1788 Plan of Toronto by Alexander Aitken, the bluffs were simply known as the High Lands. They became known as the Scarborough Highlands in 1793 named after Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
This was taken on the Bluffer's Park Beach using a telephoto lens. For a very brief duration, the warm early morning light produced a dramatic illumination on the escarpment against a misty dark sky.
Scarborough Bluffs : In warm autumn morning light . . .
The Scarborough Bluffs, also known as The Bluffs, is an escarpment in the Scarborough district of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. There are nine parks along the bluffs, with Bluffers Park being the only one with a beach. Forming much of the eastern portion of Toronto's waterfront, the Scarborough Bluffs stands above the shoreline of Lake Ontario. At its highest point, the escarpment rises 90 metres (300 ft) above the coastline and spans a length of 15 kilometres (9.3 mi).
The Scarborough Bluffs are a unique sequence of glacial sediments on the shore of Lake Ontario. They represent approximately 60,000 years of glacial history and are one of the last remaining, and most complete, records of the Wisconsinan glacial advance at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age.
The French gave the name "Les Grands Ecores", or tall points on the shore, to the cliffs. In the 1788 Plan of Toronto by Alexander Aitken, the bluffs were simply known as the High Lands. They became known as the Scarborough Highlands in 1793 named after Scarborough, North Yorkshire.
This was taken on the Bluffer's Park Beach using a telephoto lens. For a very brief duration, the warm early morning light produced a dramatic illumination on the escarpment against a misty dark sky.