We drove to Terra Cotta after we finished hiking at Limehouse Conservation area. While the entry to Limehouse was free, we had to pay to get in here.
It started pouring heavily just as we entered this area...so we returned to the parking lot and ate our picnic lunch in the car.
Once the rain stopped, we had a 'quick' hike.
Once we started driving back home, it poured in buckets again...like the monsoons of India, and not the gentle invisible drizzle I have come to expect in Toronto! Visibility was so poor, we had to get off the roads and wait for the downpour to stop. Once the rains slackened a bit we drove again, stopped again as the pouring cut off the visibility. I was startled thrice by a terrible loud sound when our car hydroplaned! Finally reached home safe and sound!
Here are a few photos from the hike in Terra Cotta. (There are 4 trails listed on the information board and we walked the Terra Cotta trail and wet land trail).
Above ... a dam built with rocks by beavers who ran out of trees?
The structure above reminded me of the structures seen in Hindi movies in farms in North India.. I guess it was the place where the farmer perched him/herself to throw stones at birds to scare them away or guard the harvest?
We need to build paths like this in India too. Besides the reasons for which these paths are built in Canadian wetlands, in India, people would be safe from snakes too.
It started pouring heavily just as we entered this area...so we returned to the parking lot and ate our picnic lunch in the car.
Once the rain stopped, we had a 'quick' hike.
Once we started driving back home, it poured in buckets again...like the monsoons of India, and not the gentle invisible drizzle I have come to expect in Toronto! Visibility was so poor, we had to get off the roads and wait for the downpour to stop. Once the rains slackened a bit we drove again, stopped again as the pouring cut off the visibility. I was startled thrice by a terrible loud sound when our car hydroplaned! Finally reached home safe and sound!
Here are a few photos from the hike in Terra Cotta. (There are 4 trails listed on the information board and we walked the Terra Cotta trail and wet land trail).
Above ... a dam built with rocks by beavers who ran out of trees?
We need to build paths like this in India too. Besides the reasons for which these paths are built in Canadian wetlands, in India, people would be safe from snakes too.
I am not sure of the purpose of the wood structure above but I guess it has some significance to the people of the Mississauga tribe who lived in this land before.
If we had something like this in India, such as in Orrissa where the Ridley turtles come, this would have the "opposite of the desired effect"....shameless and ruthless poachers would raid these in no time!
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