Resimleri Westport / Rideau Lakes Havaalanı

Bridge in Westport

Chaffey's Lock

Old Barn

Bedford Mills

Salem Road, Westport

Newboro Lock on the Rideau

Sunrise on Perth Road.

Fetch

WORLD'S SHORTEST FERRY CROSSING? Self-serve car ferry across Rideau Canal to Scott Island. It pulls itself across by cables which also steer it. Owned by the Township of Rideau Lakes. Probably the shortest ferry run in the country. It is a 30 m. crossing, the Toronto Island Airport is 120 m. crossing. After one full year, and 664 views, no one has challenged the claim of it being the shortest ferry anywhere.

The Dock GW

Drysdale's sugar bush. Tapping maple trees to make maple syrup, one of the world's great luxuries. Look for the steel buckets on the trees.

Sunset on the Lake

Making the best of limited space on the water near Chaffey's Locks.

The many rocky islands and shoals make Devil lake very hazardous for boaters that do not take care. The depth can go from 30 m. to nothing abruptly. Even depth gauges give little warning of hazards.

One of many cliffs on Devil Lake.

Looking up where the Chaffey's saw mill once produced 6 million board feet of squared pine timber in 1890 alone. They moved all the machinry to a new location when the local timber ran out. The squared timber was taken down the Rideau Canal for export.

St.Mary's Anglican church, founded 1850.

Cataraqui Trail, a former Canadian Northern railway (CNoR) bed, now a hiking and snow mobile trail. Built in 1912. All the rock drilling, blasting, mucking, hauling and dumping was done with manual labour and horses. The tracks were removed in the early 1990's. They ran from Toronto to Ottawa and on to Montreal.

Old wrecked cars rusting away.

November Sunrise

Township of Rideau Lakes Airfield. Terminal A, incoming and departing flights.

View towards Indian Lake.

Along the former Bedford Road, looking west. It is just an intermittent hiking trail now.

Black Lake

Snow Oct 2004

Turtles Sunbathing

Old cheese factory. The sagging front porch was where the cans of milk were unloaded off horse drawn wagons. Small cheese factories like this were found about every 5 miles in any direction across Ontario farm land from about 1870 to 1950. They made chedar cheese which was a high value commodity, it traveled well, and most went to England. After making the cheese curds, the whey went back in the milk cans, back to the farmers as a food suppliment for calves and pigs.

Mission on the Mountain. St. Edwards Catholic Church built in 1840 as a log structure, now only a ruined foundation in the upper right corner of the picture. The grounds are kept impecably well maintained, a few benches, cut grass and well tended flowers. Check out Half Moon Bay church 2.6 km. SSW of Gananoque Ontario for a similar natural setting.