Showcase your province's varied landscapes

[MexiQuebecois]

They say if your dog runs away in SK you can see it do so for days...

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by MexiQuebecois

They say if your dog runs away in SK you can see it do so for days...

If that is indeed true, us locals must have also developed a highly advanced sense of vision.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Denscity

^^^ actually i hated driving through Ontario more than the prairies. Seemed like the same trees, brown lake, and barren rock for endless hours.

Brown Lakes? That's a first, I've been all over this province and brown lakes are something I've never seen. I suppose fields of wheat are more exciting to drive through then this.




























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[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

Brown Lakes? That's a first, I've been all over this province and brown lakes are something I've never seen. I suppose fields of wheat are more exciting to drive through then this.

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While it is definitely beautiful scenery, do you typically drive through/on/in beaches, patios, docks, cliffs, hiking trails, water caverns, rivers, and lakes?

[The Gibbroni]

Originally Posted by Nathan

While it is definitely beautiful scenery, do you typically drive through/on/in beaches, patios, docks, cliffs, hiking trails, water caverns, rivers, and lakes?

Anything is possible when you're touring the world in your flickrmobile!

[The_Architect]

Originally Posted by Nathan

While it is definitely beautiful scenery, do you typically drive through/on/in beaches, patios, docks, cliffs, hiking trails, water caverns, rivers, and lakes?

The highways in cottage country/northern Ontario often wind around the lakes and rocks of the Canadian shield, and often go over bodies of water or right next to them (after all it's impossible to completely avoid all of them). I'll admit I've never done the drive around Lake Superior to Thunder Bay/Manitoba but this is the case with many of the highways around the Highway 7/Algonquin Park/Sudbury area.

[The Gibbroni]

Some P.E.I. in November 2010. It snowed shortly after we arrived but that just made it more beautiful. In the summer, the entire island is surrounded by red sandy beaches and you can usually find one that is completely deserted. Awesome place!

The view from where we couch surfed for a week. The house and the lady we stayed with were both absolutely incredible. If you've not tried couch surfing, do it!












Charlottetown!


















It was cold but not as cold as The Belgian made it out to be!




























A very civilized province!

[VANRIDERFAN]

Quote:
Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D
Brown Lakes? That's a first, I've been all over this province and brown lakes are something I've never seen. I suppose fields of wheat are more exciting to drive through then this.

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Well I would think that most farmers would be pretty pissed off if you were driving through their wheat field. Although it is a lot easier to find a canola field!

[kool maudit]

this is a good and very canadian way to get outstanding photos; you just say something like, "i hated quebec - so boring. just trees and gravel," and wait for the photos of the gaspé and laurentians to come rolling in!

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by The_Architect

The highways in cottage country/northern Ontario often wind around the lakes and rocks of the Canadian shield, and often go over bodies of water or right next to them (after all it's impossible to completely avoid all of them). I'll admit I've never done the drive around Lake Superior to Thunder Bay/Manitoba but this is the case with many of the highways around the Highway 7/Algonquin Park/Sudbury area.

Oh, I have no doubt you drive close to lakes; the northern half of Saskatchewan is covered by the Canadian shield too, and eventually there are so many lakes/rivers that roads end and your options are going to be either by air or portaging with a canoe to get around.

But most pictures were right on beaches, on cliff faces looking down, in the middle of lakes/rivers/inside a cavern, on docks/patios... And you definitely aren't going to have those views when driving; you'd generally have to go a little more off the beaten path to get those views.

[eemy]

Fair enough, but the truth is that Highway 17 between Thunder Bay and Sault Ste. Marie is one of the most stunning sections of highway on the Trans-Canada (and other sections are almost equally scenic). That said, driving from Thunder Bay to Winnipeg is possibly the most boring (yes, moreso than flat prairie fields which are beautiful in an entirely different way) part. By far my least favourite section of highway has been the 401 from London to Windsor.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Nathan

While it is definitely beautiful scenery, do you typically drive through/on/in beaches, patios, docks, cliffs, hiking trails, water caverns, rivers, and lakes?

What The Architect said. Aside from the beach at Killbear and Killarny's George Lake area all of those pictures can be seen in one way or another from driving through the north.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Nathan

But most pictures were right on beaches, on cliff faces looking down, in the middle of lakes/rivers/inside a cavern, on docks/patios... And you definitely aren't going to have those views when driving; you'd generally have to go a little more off the beaten path to get those views.

You've probably never done the drive. Sure they're obviously not all from cars, I generally don't nor do most people take pictures from moving vehicles, but scenery like that can be viewed along many northern and central highways. Just google map the north and follow any highway, nothing but forests and 1000's of lakes.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by The Gibbroni

Anything is possible when you're touring the world in your flickrmobile!

Most of those were my photos, so Bluemelonmobile to thank-you.

[Pavlov]

Originally Posted by kool maudit

this is a good and very canadian way to get outstanding photos; you just say something like, "i hated quebec - so boring. just trees and gravel," and wait for the photos of the gaspé and laurentians to come rolling in!

All of you, your girlfriends/wives are ugly and modestly dressed!

[harls]

Originally Posted by reesonov

all of you, your girlfriends/wives are ugly and modestly dressed!

[Robertpuant]

Some nice features around Montreal taken from Tour de la Bourse:

A mountain behind the casino


Some mountains in the US


In Quebec this time


Le fleuve


The Canadian shield rising above la vallée du Saint-Laurent


A hill in the middle of the city


Canadian shield rising again


Those sick kids really have a nice view

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Nathan

But most pictures were right on beaches, on cliff faces looking down, in the middle of lakes/rivers/inside a cavern, on docks/patios... And you definitely aren't going to have those views when driving; you'd generally have to go a little more off the beaten path to get those views.

I didn't know I had to post only photos from moving cars. Is that a mandatory of this thread because nobody else is doing that. Only about 8 pictures were on beaches or cliffs, hardly most.

Large Blue Lake from hwy, just for you.
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Look, a hwy to the right, right along the lake.

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by Andrewjm3D

I didn't know I had to post only photos from moving cars. Is that a mandatory of this thread because nobody else is doing that. Only about 8 pictures were on beaches or cliffs, hardly most.

No, they can be any pictures, I just took issue with the "would you rather drive through wheat fields or this" comment. Not all of Saskatchewan is wheat fields (although they are really nice especially when a wind blows through and they wave around and undulate), and it looked to me that it was the reverse where only maybe 8 were from the road/highway. Beautiful scenery, but nonetheless a little misleading to say they are easily accessible highway views; that's all.

[Andrewjm3D]

Originally Posted by Nathan

No, they can be any pictures, I just took issue with the "would you rather drive through wheat fields or this" comment. Not all of Saskatchewan is wheat fields (although they are really nice especially when a wind blows through and they wave around and undulate), and it looked to me that it was the reverse where only maybe 8 were from the road/highway. Beautiful scenery, but nonetheless a little misleading to say they are easily accessible highway views; that's all.

No I believe your comments about Ontario are what started this, you know (all brown lakes, barren rocks and boring trees). If you knew anything about the photos and the locations I posted you would know they are all very easily accessible by car. Anybody that's spent anytime in central or Norther Ontario knows this. If you're going to bash another province don't expect to not be called on it. You started this not me. If you can't take the heat, well you know the rest.


By the way, my beach picture, my car was parked right behind me.

Hwy 60 Muskoka/Haliburton
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Hwy 35 passes hundreds of Blue lakes
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