Best Vacation Ever

[Bob&Glennie]

Hi all, Glennie and I finally got around to editing a few of our vacation photo's from this summer. It was so hard to choose and I'm not sure that these are the best but they do tell the story and that's what "Journeys" is all about. Right?

Our vacation was a simple affair this year. We visited Pembroke, a northeastern Ontario town where we once lived and loved. The country around Pembroke is rugged and beautiful with world famous Algonquin Park only 30 min. to the north. I'm getting too old for the rough conoe trips that we used to do so this year we moteled in Pembroke and took day trips from there.

Hardly anyone knows about this lttle waterfall and we had the whole day to ourselves there ...

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Here's another angle ...

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... and while I was shooting the waterfall, Glennie was shooting this ...

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Not too far away is a little gem of a lake named Jack's Lake (lucky Jack :ivar )

Again we pretty much had the whole place to ourselves ...

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[ronphoto]

Very beautiful images, wonderful location. I wish I was there...
Thanks!

[Bob&Glennie]

This is more my style these days ... nice and easy:thumb

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On the drive back to Pembroke at sunset we encountered some beautiful farmland ...

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Pembroke is on the mighty Ottawa River, one of the largest rivers in the land. Riverside Park offers a great place to get away and spend a very enjoyable day ...

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...more of Riverside ...

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... a walk in the park ...

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We got up early every morning to catch the sunrise or what ever the day was going to offer us. This glorious morning found us on a portage trail in Algonquin ...

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The history of Pembroke as an early railway and logging town is depicted in several beautiful murals painted on the sides of the buildings. Here is one example ...

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Unique and quaint archetecture can be found everywhere in this little Canadian city ...

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And lastly ... here we are. Happy, relaxed and had a great time. Hope you did too:lust ...

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Loves yas
Bob and Glennie

[ronphoto]

Very beautiful images, wonderful location. I wish I was there...
Thanks!
Wow, I spoke too soon, even more wonderful images...awesome!

[Browndog]

Wonderful series, we hope to make it up there next summer:lust

[Swartzy]

Awesome scenery!...very nice compositions and colors. Thanks for taking the time (as I know how much time it takes) especially for a summer trip. Isn't photography a wonderful thing? So often, because we experience the sights, the majesty, the smells, the photograph never can really tell the whole story but I can just imagine with your shared images. Thanks! Way cool.

[Zygote]

Beautiful scenery and it must have been a wonderful vacation. Very good pictures! I especially like the last one. Lovely!

[Bob&Glennie]

Thankyou all for the gracious comments and Browndog, it's a long way from Arizona. If you come this way, come in the summer, prefferably June or early July. If it's a wet summer like we had this year even August would be OK. Plan to spend your time in Ontario, Quebec or the Maritimes. That's a LOT of territory to choose from and there's something different about every region but these are the prettiest areas of our country next to the Rockies. I love the Rockies but so does everybody else and they've been photogaphed to death. The Rockies are the classic Canadian cliche.:bow

Bob