Vacation, Day Three, A Picture Tour

On the third day of vacation (Monday) the local furry moochers realized the cottage was inhabited again, and started hitting us up for snacks. Naturally, we provided. We also drove down to Lion's Head, a village with a great deal of impressive geography, especially for Ontario. We stopped by Dragonfly Ridge Studios/Retreat, one of several little workshops/artistic communes that exists on the Penninsula, but it found it closed. We spent the rest of the day relaxing at the cottage.


Chippy!


Squirrel!


Elizabeth, on the beach at Lion's Head.


Lion's Head itself - the cliffs, not the village nearby.


The Haunted Police Car noses into the enchanted glen at Dragonfly Ridge.


Claire loved splashing her feet in the water on our little dock. Despite all our fears, she never wandered or tried anything unduly adventurous while we were at the cottage.


Elizabeth took this photo of me, contemplating Larry's Lake.


The "lake", really more of a shallow inlet, barely seperated from Lake Huron. It was beautiful.

One More Thing- Day Three

I spent a couple of hours in the driveway of the cottage that night, futzing with telescopes and peering at Jupiter. I'd thought I'd not have a chance to get a good observation in of any planets, because of the trees. I then realized the break in trees in the drive was positioned perfectly - Jupiter rose right between them, bright and obvious. I set up shop there with a pair of telescopes, a chair, and a candle, and forgot about the bugs and darkness. I had never in my life managed to look at Jupiter through a telescope, and... well, I found that it just made me want to buy a better telescope. The ones I was using (50mm and 60mm respectively) were little better than toys, wobbled terribly, and had almost useless sighting scopes.


The camera/telescope adaptor I'd bought was too heavy for the telescopes, and too small for my good camera. But, with the magic of a mere zoom lens and extreme cropping, I was able to resolve Jupiter as a small disc with the camera alone.


For comparison, this is what Jupiter looks like through a 60mm telescope, and more less what I saw.