Capturing the Art of Nature
Beamer Conservation Area (Day 4)
A short hike through Beamer Conservation Area
Category
Ontario Adventures
2010
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Today, we only had time for a short walk through the local escarpment before dinner. Joining Mike and I were his three teen-age kids. We trekked along the Bruce trail as it makes it way along Beamer Creek and on up to the viewpoint overlooking the town of Grimsby. We had fun taking photos of the vibrant leaves that filled the valley leading into the escarpment. We also made a number of small diversions from the trail down to the creek. The light played nicely on the leaves for our enjoyment as we slowly made our way up the trail. We were having so much fun finding items to photograph along the lower creek that we finally needed to start rushing a bit so that we could get to the viewpoint before we lost the light. Not far into the trail Mike stopped to take a photo and when he put his glasses back on he couldn’t see – he was missing one of the lenses on his glasses! We then all stopped to look through the leaf litter to try and find it. Fortunately Lucas with his eagle eye spotted it before we lost much time and we were back taking photos.
The creek was full of small rapids as it made its way down the escarpment and each set offered us lovely vignettes to capture. They were very pretty and we spend so much time exploring them that we were in danger of missing the light on the grand vistas visible from above. So after only covering about half the distance in from the road we started a more rapid pace to reach the ridge and the viewpoint. It didn’t take long and soon we joined the crowds up there enjoying the colours along the escarpment. The light was still quite good on the ridge –filling the trees with much colour so we took some time to capture the trees up there for a while between our glimpses of the valley below.
Once done with the ridge we started our return. I noticed a squirrel in the distance that interested Mike and he was able to get a decent shot of it just before we started down the stairs from the ridge. It was now getting late and we needed to get back to the house for dinner, and I still had to return to the hotel to pickup Carolyn. Once back to the car we noticed that the light was playing nicely on a huge tree over-hanging the car filling it full of rich colour. One last scene to enjoy before we returned home!