I AM OFF TO ALGONQUIN PARK

Looking Forward to Continuing the Ward 30 Updates when I get Back

This is a great Globe &Mail article
Our national parks are the envy of the world....

And this weekend, great waves of migrant birds will descend onto the sandy shores of Point Pelee in southern Ontario; flocks of grebes and gulls, canvasbacks and pintail. Many will continue north toward the magnificent but little-known arctic lands of Auyuittuq, Tuktut Nogait and Sirmilik, which are creaking to life with the approach of equinox. Honeymooners and March-breakers will wander driftwood-littered Long Beach on the exposed outer shores of Vancouver Island, while across the country Nordic skiers will float through Gros Morne's wind-stunted tuckamore forests in Newfoundland.

This is the stuff of our national parks. ...read more at the Globe & Mail

pictures by Peter Bowers