Showing posts with label Chaudière Falls. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chaudière Falls. Show all posts

Thursday, May 15, 2014

Ottawa: Intrepid Traveler

The Ottawa River is high, fast and complicated. Yet this single traveler moves cautiously but easily upstream aboard a big and fully loaded kayak. It looks like he is on a long camping and paddling trip on this challenging river. The water is still very cold, too. I am full of admiration though would be reluctant to try what he is confidently doing.
He is below Parliment Hill heading upstream. Chaudière Falls in partially visible in the left distance.
Just beyond him, at the line, the upriver water is pushing hard up against the eddy in the foreground and then powerfully diving downward under it. You could get badly caught up in that!

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Ottawa: Chaudière Falls

High water on the Ottawa River: tall swells and white water, complicated currents, strong and fast flow. Not a river I would care to test!