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I'm trying to find pictures of the Wawa Fume Kill and it's absurdly hard (it's a restricted area), but it's a region where the fumes from an iron smelter killed everything to the degree that even the soil died and then blew away, leaving bare shield rock. Since the smelter closed decades ago the region has been slowly coming back to life, but still looks more like a badland than a forest. It's pretty unique but since it was created by a toxic event, it's not the safest or easiest place to go. Even Google Earth doesn't have photos of it anymore.

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This short tourism promo has all my faves here. :)

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Originally Posted by hipster duck (Post 8751040)

Yeah, I’ve seen pictures of Sleeping Giant and Ouimet canyon and, nice as it is, it’s no Icefields Parkway.

Getting to Thunder Bay is also quite a commitment - I’d have to book a flight, rental car and hotels. It’s easy to see why more Southern Ontarians go to other places before they explore that part of the province.

True, I grew up in Tbay and while there are beautiful things, including the people who get a bad rap, nothing prepared me for the scenic awe I experienced moving to the west coast.

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It is now mostly greened over but when I first started dating my wife 25 years ago there were some freaky moonscapes north of Sudbury in the Chelmsford area on the highway to Timmins.

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The one place in the province where there is a permanent Restricted Fire Zone.

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Here are a few that I like for NS:

Cabot Trail

Nice scenery.:skyhighmind:

Athabasca Dunes--very unique.

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British Columbia's beauty is utterly colossal and bewildering. I find that short videos like the following merely hint at the true radical intensity and sheer audaciousness of its landscape:

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Originally Posted by TheGreatestX (Post 8751173)

Even without the mountains, Alberta is still scenic

And Saskatchewan is more than just the prairies:
https://www.narcity.com/u/2019/05/08...g_1200x630.jpg
https://www.narcity.com/u/2019/05/08...g_1200x630.jpg

Lol this is a stock photo of the Namib desert in Namibia... not the Athabasca sand dunes.

The namib desert is home to some of the largest sand dunes in the world, over 10 times the size of what we get in Canada, as you can clearly see in that pic.

Narcity is such a joke.

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster (Post 8760694)

LOL, I was going to say. I just spent 20 minutes trying to find more info and any image that looked close to that with no luck.

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I miss my sled this time of year.

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Originally Posted by TorontoDrew (Post 8760733)

LOL, I was going to say. I just spent 20 minutes trying to find more info and any image that looked close to that with no luck.

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I can’t speak to the validity of that particular photo, but the Great Sand Hills and Athabasca Sand Dunes are not the same. Athabasca Dunes are northwest on the south shore of Lake Athabasca while the Sand Hills are southwest near the Alberta border. https://www.photojourneys.ca/wp-cont...liam_river.jpg
https://www.photojourneys.ca/wp-cont...bascaSD_lr.jpg
https://www.photojourneys.ca/wp-cont...giant_dune.jpg
https://photojourneys.ca/2017/12/31/...ca-sand-dunes/

Edit: Actually I went to the original article. I have no idea why they would use that photo when even their own photo credit says it’s from Namib Desert, but the rest of the photos on the article are from the Athabasca Dunes.

Edit again: the disclaimer at the bottom says the cover photo is for illustrative purposes only. Oh boy.

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Originally Posted by LeftCoaster (Post 8760694)

It's like the Cheltenham Badlands in Ontario, they're barely 230,000 sqft.

https://www.narcity.com/u/2018/02/20...g_1200x630.jpg
https://www.narcity.com/ca/on/toront...is-spring-2018

https://i.imgur.com/XzEyJ2i.jpg

Love this scene. It's always great when you have access to nice places that only few other people can get to. Well, once in a while.

When my BIL had his 21 foot boat we would launch from Penetang Harbour by the cottage and go out to uninhabited Giants Tomb Island in Georgian Bay with pristine beach and shallow water for hundreds of feet. Perfect for swimming. Same thing with any of the little rocky Canadian Shield islands in the thousand islands area of Georgian Bay/Muskoka.

But, I do admit, it gets boring after a while when you and a couple other boats are the only ones there.

I also did this just south of Myrtle Beach along the inter-coastal. Not islands but stretches of beach along the coast only accessible by boat. Difference is you had to move the anchor every 20 minutes or risk getting caught by the tide.

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Sandbanks, Lake Ontario
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Sandbanks Dunes by Tom Podolec, on Flickr