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This is a re-post. Got too frustrating trying to repair the photo gallery after we changed hosting sites.

Recently visited Meldrum Bay for a few days of shooting the spring poppies. There is a fairly large bed of them that frame some of the historic buildings really nicely. Also made it out to the Mississagi Lighthouse (about 30 kms. from Meldrum Bay) and that is where the road and Manitoullin Island end. I camped in The Point campground which is right on Meldrum Bay and right across the road from the Meldrum Bay Inn. The veranda is a really nice place to while away the summer hours sipping iced tea, swapping stories with the guests and locals… and especially with Shirin and her daughter Elena… they are the “front” staff of the establishment (husband Bob tends to the maintenance and other serious kitchen duties (along with other staff). One of the nicest things about spending time there was hearing Shirin’s ready laughter. It echoes out across the village and is absolutely lovely to hear. Thanks!

Meldrum Bay Inn and poppies

Dock shed and poppies

Wildflowers on barnboard

Headlands - Mississagi Straits

New breakwater for Meldrum Bay Harbour

The iPhone is gluing itself to me… already.

For some time I have been searching the web for a database for sunrise, sunset times (that part was easy), but what I REALLY needed was to know WHERE the sun would be rising or setting on any given day of the year, and know the information for any location on earth, and from any location, even though I was sitting in my office planning my next shoot to hopefully add to my Fine Art Gallery. I couldn’t find what I needed… until the iPhone came into my life, and there it was, Vincent Kekoa’s Sunrise Sunset Pro… and all for $1.99. So now I can lay out the map, enter the GPS coordinates into the app, and know that if I am standing at point X on Georgian Bay looking out at the Killarney Lighthouse, I can know where the sun will be rising relative to the subject on any given day of the year. Thanks Vincent.

This app rocks, pretty, useful… and easy to use. I give it 5 stars.

Find it at http://www.appstorehq.com/sunrisesunsetpro-iphone-41877/app

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until the next time, Garth

If you’ve seen “The Bucket List” then you might relate better to some folks I’ve met this year. In May I was camping in Killarney and met Michal and Janine from Switzerland. They travel a lot and are presently on a five month cross Canada trip by car… then there’s the Italian couple I happened to meet today in Sudbury. They are traveling Montreal to Vancouver on a bicycle built for two, and hauling a trailer. It’s longer than a lot of smaller cars on the road these days. Their blog site is http://www.salitedelvco.it/blog01/ It is written in Italian, but just by looking at the pictures, you can tell these guys travel a lot. I think they must have been born on a bicycle. Cycling across Canada isn’t part of my personal Bucket List (I do have one) but I respect these folks for their undertakings. Welcome to Canada… enjoy.