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AARC said:
Pepper... I dare you to wear your "chicken coop poop gear" to the supermarket.

Double dog dare ya :P

:)

Two rations of Rum ? ? ?
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Well the headlamp isn't required, but the man with the "PINK" saucers has gone out and about many times in the world.
No big deal as most probably look at me like I'm a local bum, no problem with that one.
I think those coveralls have seen some pretty good action, went through a decade in the scrap yard, then another dozen after, getting thread bare, but they still keeps the bones warm.
Why do we have to put airs on for folks anyways-here it is like it or not, take me for what I am.
Maybe that's why the farmers let me roam on their lands.
Oh sure one can put on the airs, wear the bling, dress up, polish the truck, for what? So more can talk behind one's back?
It's more fun screwing with their heads doing this way. :tongue3:
 

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Dig.... I use to like to go out on a big charter and Perch fish. It’s funny now that I would take a break from fishing to go fishing. I also liked to go to a cleaning shak and bet a race filleting what ever was next. Beside 10# walleyes, 6-8# smallies, 5 gal buckets of perch. I think Erie would be a scary place to swim if I was only a one pond perch, almost the size of some baits Also that area was cheapest place in country to get fish mounted. Have a great Sunday.
 

Good morning (or is it night for you), Fat.

Yes, Perch fishing is a way different kind of fishing than walleye. A break of sorts. I personally don’t care for it, so if it is the agenda, I stay back. That’s cool. I can occupy myself with movies or detecting. The campground owners gave me permission to detect. I was too scared to take the step and ask. The mr asked for me. After md’ing the first time, I figured out that a campground is probably the easiest permission to get. I mean, you are picking up all kinds of trash for them.
 

WannaDig3687 said:
Pretty much the same. We did a lot of fishing around the dump.

Here’s a couple of old threads with pics. Not necessary to leave any comments on them. Maybe they will bring back some memories for you though.

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-daily-snapshot/584945-lake-erie-views.html

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-daily-snapshot/588339-ships-horizon.html

http://www.treasurenet.com/forums/my-daily-snapshot/583584-festival-sails.html
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I enjoyed looking through your threads at the pics of Lake Erie WD, your love of the water shines through clearly. :thumbsup:

I grew up above the Scarborough Bluffs, which is a suburb of Toronto, so I always had Lake Ontario and the bluffs in my backyard. My mother grew up in one of the original beach houses in Toronto on Lake Ontario, built-in 1890, so I practically spent every weekend there with my grandparents.

The Scarborough Bluffs are the former shoreline of an ancient glacial lake – marking the end of the Great Ice Age.

These cliffs were doubt a landmark and point of conversation for Aboriginal canoers paddling the lake, then for the first French explorers in the 1600s, the Bluffs were also noted by none other than Elizabeth Simcoe, the adventurous, talented, and intrepid spouse of our first Lieutenant Governor. “The shore is extremely bold & has the appearance of Chalk Cliffs.” On August 4, 1793, writing in her diary, Elizabeth Posthuma Simcoe made reference to “the highlands of Toronto” with a bold shore exhibiting the appearance of chalk cliffs (but probably white sand). Elizabeth Simcoe and her husband, John Graves Simcoe, mused about the possibility of building a summer residence there and naming the area “Scarborough” after Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. As John Ross Robertson noted in a published version of the Simcoe diary, Mr. and Mrs. Simcoe actually ended up with a residence at Castle Frank but the name “Scarborough” (applied to the east end of what is now the amalgamated City of Toronto) remained

The steep drop of the cliffs were carved by Lake Iroquois, whose water levels were pushed high by an ice-dammed St. Lawrence River. When this ice dam melted and collapsed, Lake Iroquois’s levels dropped sharply away, leaving the Bluffs towering above present-day Lake Ontario – roughly 30 metres lower. The sediment contains fossilized plants and animals, and upper layers show the advance and retreat of ice over time. Says a city plaque on the site: “The layers of sand and clay exposed in these cliffs display a remarkable geological record of the last stages of the Great Ice Age. Unique in North America, they have attracted worldwide scientific interest.”

Countless ships have sunk along the Bluffs, and locals collected bits of wreckage and smuggled goods. Fairburn describes an early pioneer culture that revolved around the ship trade and shipping, including smuggling goods to avoid taxes. Locals would often take a boat to get to York instead of using roads, she says. But the coast was dangerous, particularly during storms. “During the 19th century, it’s fair to say that many ships foundered off the coast of the Scarborough shore,” she says. “I don’t know (how many died) but there was certainly a lot of goods lost – pilfered.”

There are rumours of treasure. Considering its storied past of shipwrecks and smuggling, the Bluffs are bound to be the keeper of secrets. “In the 19th century, there are many accounts of treasure being hidden in Gates Gully, and the Highland Creek river valley as well,” Fairburn says. “Stories about treasure go back to the War of 1812 – rumours of it being there and generations of kids searching for it, including some of the old pioneer families.”

Of course, locals would say the Scarborough Bluffs are a treasure in itself. Hikers can find fossils in the earth and Fairburn’s book chronicles exciting archaeological discoveries, some of which are among the oldest in Toronto. Many local families have stayed for generations, she says, seduced by the raw beauty of this dangerous coast.
 

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Hello...good morning. Pulling out for keywest in an hour or two. First adventure since covid..woooo hoooo !!
 

Morning WD, ARC, Dave
 

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