June 26, 2014

Nature Photo of Whitehorse/ChevalBlanc rapids

Monkeys toss their garbage in the bushes. Out of sight, out of mind.

Monkeys toss their garbage behind a rock

Bag of garbage I made from lots of pieces of garbage put together, at the garbage bin.

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Second cleaning at Cap St Jacques

Nature Photo of Cap St Jacques

I cleaned the shore line of the picnic area north west in Cap St Jacques park.

June 23, 2014

I went to the western edge of Whitehorse/ChevalBlanc rpaids woods. I went with the intention of taking out the stolen telephones, my primary mission. Lots of mosquitoes, my DEET repellant once applied , repelled them.
As I had commented before, the plants are growing tremendously and I got lost for a while looking for the telephones location. I underestimated how deep, or far north they were in, in this section.

Nature photo

Nature photo

I was surprised this trail was still underwater.

Along with losing their location, I also forgot how heavy the telephones are. I had built a new container for my bike and doubted it could carry the weight. I settled on taking the telephones to the trail for later pick up. I will take them one by one with my regular milk-box container, a much stronger container.

Ants were living in one of the telephones are they were not happy of the move.

During my travels of the park I found three adult turtles.

Turtle 1

Turtle 2

Turtle 3

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Garbage. Some less than intelligent school child dumped their school papers in two locations, less than intelligent because their name is all over the evidence. I cleaned it up for them.

Whitehorse woods. I cleaned this up.

Schools OUT! Whitehorse woods, same as above photo but close up.

Garbage at the entrance to Des Arbres park. I cleaned this up.

Park Des Arbres https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.513819,-73.844512,3a,75y,21.7h,81.66t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s4_-0SrK261wc4oSIymcAqA!2e0

I also took out a plastic chair and three metal bars. My new container was full. I took it all to Brook park. My cameras battery was out of power so I could not take a photo of the full container going into the city container.

June 20, 2014

I cleaned walked the western edge of Bois de Liesse. I intended to go inside but there are too many mosquitoes and I had no repellant.https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4955377,-73.7811678,1003m/data=!3m1!1e3

There are lots of tiny wildflowers.

Lots of wildflowers such as daisy's.

A wider photo of the first (above) photo area.

A bag of garbage I collected from all the little bits of garbage.

June 19, 2014

I cleaned Whitehorse/ChevalBlanc rapids park shoreline.

Park Benches

Just a bit west of the official park.

The garbage I found and cleaned up. Lots of bad fishermen out there, for the fishing line and worm containers I find.

June 17, 2014

I cleaned at ChevalBlanc Whitehorse rapids woods western shoreline area.
 https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5163356,-73.8455935,207m/data=!3m1!1e3
The plants are growing so fast and large I can not imagine what they will do in July when there is even more sunlight. I wonder if the increase of CO2 in the atmosphere has made them grow more? Oxygen is at 20% while CO2 is at 0.04%

campfire near train-bridge

Very fast growth of the plants covers up the old rusted car parts.

Start of the cleaning

Broken beer bottle. Zoom in blow-up of the center of the previous (above) photo.

Broken beer bottle

Broken beer bottle

I thought I had finished cleaning up the glass when I found more.

My feet in the cold river

Bad News, they put the standard garbage container in Brooks park (the closest city garbage container). It is very difficult for me to dump my broken glass garbage in this type of container.

Regular garbage I picked up, two spray paint cans on the right side.

The broken beer bottles I picked up and at the city garbage container.

CBC news makes a story on the problem on the garbage in parks.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/mount-royal-needs-better-garbage-strategy-citizen-says-1.2676833

Mount Royal needs better garbage strategy, citizen says

Garbage cans with lids, recycling bins, banning barbecues among the suggestions to keep park clean

Mount Royal Park – the 200-hectare jewel set aside for public use in the centre of Montreal – is being left strewn with garbage after any sunny weekend, and a resident of neighbouring Westmount is urging visitors to help keep the park clean.
"As soon as the weather gets nice, people start using the mountain," Paula Engels told CBC Radio's host of Daybreak, Mike Finnerty. "People are enjoying this beautiful mountain that we have...and they should.

June 15, 2014

Cap St Jacques shoreline , looking west at the shoreline of the farm

Nature photo of Cap St Jacques shoreline , looking west at the shoreline of the farm

Garbage I found and took from the shoreline

Garbage I collected from the shoreline

I found a fishing lure stuck in a bush and put it in the glass beer bottle, and other garbage I cleaned up.

I cleaned Cap St Jacques shoreline , west of the farm. https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4702016,-73.9388601,654a,35y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3

June 11, 2014

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.4626507,-73.9186652,328a,35y,270h/data=!3m1!1e3

Nature photo of Cap St Jacques free boat launch

Nature photo of Cap St Jacques free boat launch further back

The garbage I cleaned from the shoreline of Cap St Jacques

June 9, 2014

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.5035719,-73.7849625,158a,35y,270h,78.9t/data=!3m1!1e3

Nature photo of Roxboro woods

The garbage I brought to the garbage container at Roxboro woods.

June 8, 2014

Nature photo of Whitehorse/ChevalBlanc rapids shoreline

beer cans (better than glass bottles)

Beer cans (better than glass bottles)

The garbage I cleaned up from the shoreline of Whitehorse rapids.

June 6, 2014

Nature photo of Park Paquin

The garbage I collected from the shoreline of Park Paquin.

https://www.google.ca/maps/@45.510508,-73.799467,3a,75y,48.67h,96.08t/data=!3m4!1e1!3m2!1s3Of-dFiQouA4Qv2RAO5GOA!2e0

June 4, 2014

Nature Photo ( Roxboro Island)

Garbage I collected during the morning walk

This foam container was floating in the Les Rapides du Cheval Blanc. It bugged me, but no longer!

I walked and bike the shoreline from Roxboro Island to the Les Rapides du Cheval Blanc official park and collected one bag of garbage, that is in the second photo.