Ottawa: Rideau Locks and Flooded Ottawa River

Ottawa: I Took a Walk and Had to Bushwhack

Ottawa: Locks Between Ottawa River and Rideau Canal

Ottawa River: View Downriver from Rue-Jacques-Cartier

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!

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!

Ottawa River Valley from Etienne Brule Lookout in the Gatineau Hills

Mink in a Backwater of the Ottawa River

The second mink of my life spotted within a week of the first.  

Big shake every time it came to the surface after a fishing dive.