Looking toward Champlain Monument Island - thanks Stephen Griggs!
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Greetings!
Happy Canada Day!
Now that the pollen is gone, at least for the most part, it's time to enjoy Canada Day and the upcoming week! It's much quieter than usual, but there is hope that folks won't be in a hurry to get anywhere fast - so the wakes of the boats won't disturb the kayakers, canoers and sailors out there! For some folks, it harkens back to the way the area used to feel like! So please doubly enjoy the beauty and the quiet for those of our neighbours who are not able to join in!
These pictures were taken by Stephen Griggs who reports that this perfect GB Day has the temperatures in the mid 20s C (mid to high 70s F).
Nancy Rogers reports there is a westerly breeze to keep it comfortable with no rain in the forecast for another week!
Can't get much better than that!
May you all enjoy the beauty that surrounds you!
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And out to the open Georgian Bay. Truly, a GB Day! Thanks again, Stephen!
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In this eBlast:
- PaBIA Flagpole Flags - some still available!
- EdCom: It's That Time
- Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
- PaBIA Non Competitive Sailing - July 4 1 pm
- Station Bottle Drive cancelled
- GBBR Exploring Our Shores Webinar Series
- Ojibway Grocery Store, Snack Bar and Gift Shop
- Ojibway Art Show Contact Info Correction
- Post Office Mail: %General Delivery, PaB, ON P0G 1K0
- GBLT Properties Reopen to the Public with restrictions
- GBBR Kids in the Biosphere
- GBLT Kids Conservation Quest - Ongoing
- Lake Michigan-Huron Water Levels June 29, 2020
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Latest Updated Calendars for
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Fly Your PaBIA Flag
Nancy Rogers has 14 large flagpole size (3' x 5') left in her stockpile at the cottage. If you would like one, the cost is $46CN. She will not be sending them in the mail, but will have them at her cottage for payment and pickup. Please contact
Nancy
if you are interested!
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It's That Time...
by Trudy Irvine, Education Committee
Mayflies, or shadflies are hatching in great numbers. Relatives of dragonflies and damselflies, these short-lived insects belong to an order fittingly named Ephemeroptera. There are many species all over the world and in our area. They became known as mayflies in some areas because the hatch is observed in the month of May in England, and they can also be referred to as shadflies as their emergence coincides with the river running of the shad fish in some areas of North America.
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What are those tiny skeletons floating on the water? Those are the exoskeletons of the nymphs that have emerged from the lake bottom and moulted into the “adolescent” winged form known as the subimago. What are those smaller, light coloured mayfly-shaped husks clinging to your screens? Those are the exoskeletons of the subimago that have moulted one final time into the mature imago. The imago is the larger and darker coloured final form that you may find littering the bottom of your boat or in a pile below your exterior lights.
Like dragonflies, mayflies live most of their lives underwater as nymphs, or naiads, and breathe through fine external gills. Their presence is indicative of good water quality. Unlike carnivorous dragonfly nymphs, most mayfly nymphs are herbivores or detritovores. They are an important part of the aquatic food chain and provide food for fish, crayfish, leeches, amphibians, and dragonfly larvae among others. The nymphs process a large quantity of organic matter and help remove pollutants by transferring the phosphates and nitrates they consume out of the water when they hatch. Hatching is dictated by water temperature, and to some extent, light intensity. When these are just right, there is a large synchronous hatch that provides an important food source for nesting birds with hungry chicks, fish, (ask any fly fisherman about this!) frogs, dragonflies, and many other animals.
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Adult mayflies live just a day or two and their only goal is to reproduce. They do not feed and lack functional mouths. Males perform a courtship dance over open water that sees them climb and fall repeatedly; and the females are drawn to mate with the males in midair. Perhaps you have seen flocks of gulls wheeling and diving to feed in these swarms in the evenings? Females, that escape birds and other predators, lay their eggs on the surface of the water; and the life cycle begins again.
The ephemeral life of mayflies has inspired writers and other artists for years. Richard Wilbur pays homage to the humble mayfly in this
beautiful poem.
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PaB Station Bottle Drive On Hold
Due to COVID 19, the station bottle drive to collect all alcohol containers is not continuing at this time...so please place these with the rest of your container trash! Thank you!
Remember, too, that it is asked of each of us to place our own trash in the proper recycle bin or trash container at the transfer station.
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Ojibway Club is OPEN
Grocery Store
is open for both online/phone-in orders and foot traffic with our Protocols in place. If choosing the in-store experience, a mask is required for all Members and Guests, Complimentary disposable masks are provided at the Grab Thru Window.
Gift Shop
is open for online/phone in orders with Ojibway Dockside delivery. Once Construction of the Gift Shop is complete, we will immediately add the in-store experience.
The
Ojibway grocery store
and
Ojibway Gift Shop
Hours: 9 – 5 pm (Monday - Saturday) 10-4 pm (Sunday)
Our
Snack Bar
Take-out Only with Ojibway dockside delivery* is open for online / phone in orders. Please provide a lead time of one hour for the desired pick up time.
Snack Bar take-out will request a date and time slot for dockside pick-up between
11:00 – 4:30 pm Monday – Saturday and
11:00 – 4:00 pm on Sunday; 705 346-2997.
Your phone, text or email confirmation will assign a time for pick-up and a bloat slip # to dock at.
NEW THIS YEAR
For those who wish to take advantage of the walking trails, the Ojibway Club has created a
Grab ’n Go pass-through window
near the front door of the grocery store. From here you can enjoy a morning coffee, tea, muffin or bakery item, ice cream in a cup with a cone on the side, ice cream sandwiches, freezies, popsicles, creamsicles, and Haagen-Dazs on a stick, bag of chips, chocolate bar, etc.
8-5 pm Monday through Saturday; 8-4 pm Sunday.
Phone in ordering 705-366-2999 (12 hour notice or greater). You can also call in last-minute orders to determine availability.
*Note: Upon docking please remain in your boat, for your safety and ours. Please wait until our team runner has placed your delivery adjacent to your boat before moving it into the boat.
Cancelled this year - OC Post Office
in the Gift Shop will not be functioning this summer. For mail, please inquire at the PaB Post Office on Highway 69 to retain a PO Box.
Snack Bar takeout only - 705 346-2997
Gift Shop - 705 346-2998
Grocery Store - 705 346-2999
Office – 705-366-5085
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Ojibway Art Show
Email Correction
Should you wish to contact
Wendy Bunston
regarding this year's virtual Art Show, please use the
new email
address!
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Pointe au Baril Post Office
Since the Ojibway Post Office is closed this season due to COVID, please have your mail sent instead to the local PaB Post Office.
Please address any mail to:
%General Delivery
Pointe au Baril, ON P0G 1K0
Our postmistress would ask that we pick up our mail regularly, like once a week.
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Scott Sheard, Ward 3 Councillor,
Recipient of GBLT's Grenville Award 2020
by Brooks Greer, Land Protection Program Manager, Georgian Bay Land Trust
This year we’re delighted to recognize Scott Sheard with the GBLT’s Grenville Volunteer Award.
It is probably safe to say that Scott would rather be on Georgian Bay than anywhere else on the planet and will go to great lengths to spend time there.
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Among other services he has provided, Scott was the GBLT’s tireless liaison with the Pointe au Baril Islanders’ Association and their Marine Patrol over eight summers. Scott supervised the Marine Patrol’s vital stewardship of the Land Trust’s growing stable of Pointe au Baril properties. Every year in late June, I would join Scott and the year’s Marine Patrol staff for a training day which would include dryland instruction and then an afternoon tour of selected GBLT properties. Scott was wonderful with the Marine Patrol staffers, by the day that I arrived he had always developed a great rapport and had them performing confidently in their new roles.
Scott has always made himself available to help GBLT staff in the perpetually busy Pointe au Baril community. At different times, Scott’s assistance has helped us to perform property Baseline studies, to monitor Conservation Easements and he has ferried bodies, food and drink to our PaB events. As one extreme example, in May 2018 Scott drove all the way up from Toronto for the sole task of boating two herpetologists out to West Lookout Reserve so they could inventory for snakes and turtles. With this on top of his past volunteer work on behalf of the Pointe au Baril Islanders' Association, sometimes it seems Scott might need to return to the city to “unwind”.
Scott’s constant sharp wit and comic turn of phrase make him a pleasure to be around. His strong community mindedness and environmental responsibility show in everything he does and has done for Georgian Bay, for Pointe au Baril, and now in his current incarnation as Ward 3 Councillor for the Township of the Archipelago.
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The Grenville Award* is presented annually to the Georgian Bay Land Trust's outstanding volunteer as selected by Land Trust staff. It recognizes excellence, leadership and generosity in time and effort donated by an individual to further the GBLT conservation mission.
(*The Grenville Province is a geological province of the Canadian Shield, and refers to rocks of the central metasedimentary belt in Ontario, northern New York and southwestern Quebec. It takes its name from the village of Grenville on the north shore of the Ottawa River in Quebec.)
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Hummingbird Hawk-Moth
This picture of the hummingbird hawk-moth was taken by Suzannah Livingstone. Thanks Suzannah!
Equipped with two sets of wings (the front are grey-brown and the hind orange), they’re attracted to brightly coloured blooms, such as valerian, lavender and verbena. Those wings span 2 in. and beat 70–80 times a second, emitting an audible hum, and allow them to hover over plants, an ability that means these industrious migrants can fill up on the high-octane fuel of nectar they need to power their busy lives.
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The hawk-moth’s inch-long, curved proboscis — which uncoils as they feed — allows it to suck up nectar from flowers that have a long corolla, such as honeysuckle, giving the moths a clear advantage over other nectar-guzzling insects. Furthermore, these whizzy hummingbird impressionists are clever, as they remember to revisit high-nectar-yielding plants.
From Country Life
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Recreational Sailing This Summer!
As organized sailing events in Ontario are prohibited, this summer we will be having a weekly recreational long distance sail each Saturday in July and August leaving about 1 pm from Ojibway Bay. All are welcome to join in regardless of skill level or interest in racing.
Everyone is encouraged to come out and enjoy a few hours in a flotilla with the Marine Patrol following us, together with our regular safety boat. If you do not have a boat, please ask around as there are quite a few sailboats of various kinds that would benefit from getting into the water and being rigged!
On perfect days, we might set a course in the open to the McCoys or out and back to the Lighthouse, or perhaps down Shawanaga to the Twin Sisters. On other days, we will follow the safety boat on a "rabbit" course in more protected areas for a few hours.
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Explore Our Shores Summer Webinar Series
The Georgian Bay Biosphere has launched a webinar series this summer! Join GBBR staff and guest hosts in these free, interactive presentations. These webinars are offered in partnership with the Township of the Archipelago. Register at
www.gbbr.ca/events
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Game of Thrones: Septic Health & Best Practices
Learn what every home and cottage owner needs to know about their septic system
Tuesday July 14
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11:00 am with Greg Mason
Seeing the Trees & the Forest: Meet Your Forest Pests
We will explore the forest pests currently in the Biosphere and the ones on their way here: Beech Bark Disease, Emerald Ash Borer, Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Oak Wilt, and more
Thursday July 30
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11:00 am with Barry Davidson and Margaret Scott
Birds of the Biosphere
Explore the lives of local birds: what you are most likely to see in eastern Georgian Bay, tips for better birding, identification and bird calls, plus simple ways we can help our feathered friends.
Thursday August 13
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11:00 am with Kenton Otterbein & Tianna Burke
Managing & Monitoring Muskellunge:
A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Beyond
Arunas Liskauskas
takes viewers on a journey across twenty years of study on the infamous muskie in Georgian Bay and the North Channel. What does the past tell us about the future of these great fish?
Thursday August 27
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11:00 am with Arunas Liskauskas & Katrina
Krievins
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Lakes Michigan/Huron Water Levels June 29, 2020
To better read the charts, please
click
on the chart for the
Daily or Six Month Forecast Water level chart and the corresponding websites
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Yearbook Update
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for you to print out and insert into your own Yearbook copy!
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Explore Our Shores Summer Webinar Series
The Georgian Bay Biosphere has launched a webinar series this summer! Join GBBR staff and guest hosts in these free, interactive presentations. These webinars are offered in partnership with the Township of the Archipelago. Register at
www.gbbr.ca/events
.
Game of Thrones: Septic Health & Best Practices
Learn what every home and cottage owner needs to know about their septic system
Tuesday July 14
th
11:00 am with Greg Mason
Seeing the Trees & the Forest: Meet Your Forest Pests
We will explore the forest pests currently in the Biosphere and the ones on their way here: Beech Bark Disease, Emerald Ash Borer, Hemlock Wooly Adelgid, Oak Wilt, and more
Thursday July 30
th
11:00 am with Barry Davidson and Margaret Scott
Birds of the Biosphere
Explore the lives of local birds: what you are most likely to see in eastern Georgian Bay, tips for better birding, identification and bird calls, plus simple ways we can help our feathered friends.
Thursday August 13
th
11:00 am with Kenton Otterbein & Tianna Burke
Managing & Monitoring Muskellunge:
A Twenty-Year Retrospective and Beyond
Arunas Liskauskas
takes viewers on a journey across twenty years of study on the infamous muskie in Georgian Bay and the North Channel. What does the past tell us about the future of these great fish?
Thursday August 27
th
11:00 am with Arunas Liskauskas & Katrina
Krievins
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