In response to questions/comments re: Memorial Day
1. Wild mushrooms. It's too early, and the weather isn't exactly mushroom weather, it is too cold! I did see some gyromitra esculenta (false morels), but those are the ones that have to be cooked specially, and are not for everyone. No sitings of morels. Next likely bloom is chanterelles, but the weather has to get warmer.
2. Moore's falls is rockin'! Lots of water coming over, we just had buckets of rain again the last couple of days. There were kayakers here already to ride the falls, before the Victoria Day weekend. The river level is high this year; maybe you heard about the flooding in Bancroft, Whitney, and Huntsville? Serious downpours the 20ish of April, washed out a lot of trails in Algonquin Park, tons of flood damage (they thought the dam at Whitney was going to blow), but it was all ok here. Also, the sinkhole that swallowed a car opened up on Hwy 62 just north of Bancroft again. I don't know about Algonquin Park, but everything else has pretty much been put back in order.
3. Spring Peepers are singing their little hearts out. Makes it hard to hear the falls at night!
1. Wild mushrooms. It's too early, and the weather isn't exactly mushroom weather, it is too cold! I did see some gyromitra esculenta (false morels), but those are the ones that have to be cooked specially, and are not for everyone. No sitings of morels. Next likely bloom is chanterelles, but the weather has to get warmer.
2. Moore's falls is rockin'! Lots of water coming over, we just had buckets of rain again the last couple of days. There were kayakers here already to ride the falls, before the Victoria Day weekend. The river level is high this year; maybe you heard about the flooding in Bancroft, Whitney, and Huntsville? Serious downpours the 20ish of April, washed out a lot of trails in Algonquin Park, tons of flood damage (they thought the dam at Whitney was going to blow), but it was all ok here. Also, the sinkhole that swallowed a car opened up on Hwy 62 just north of Bancroft again. I don't know about Algonquin Park, but everything else has pretty much been put back in order.
3. Spring Peepers are singing their little hearts out. Makes it hard to hear the falls at night!
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