Month: July 2018

While waiting for one of my daughters to arrive from the U.K. for a summer visit, I spent some time Plane Spotting from the main terminal at the Ottawa Airport.

The Airport’s Official name is Macdonald–Cartier International Airport and is named after two of the founding fathers of Canada, Sir John A. MacDonald and Sir George-Etienne Cartier. The Airport code for Ottawa is YOW or CYOW. The Airport was active as of July 2, 1927.

An interesting fact is that in 1950 the village of Bowesville was expropriated to expand the airport. The current main terminal now stands on the site of the crossroads at the center of the village.

I have always had a fascination with planes and I am a fairly proficient MS Flight Simulator pilot. I hope to spend some more time plane spotting in the future.

So today we travelled north of Ottawa through places that I have heard of most of my life but never visited. Places like Brennan’s Hill, Low, Kazabazua, and Gracefield Quebec. We took Highway 105 all the way from Ottawa past Gracefield and then east over to the south end of 31 Mile Lake. We visited friends at their trailer. The scenery was spectacular and it was a great day to take photos.

We took advantage of the Canada Day long weekend to travel to Mount Albert, Ontario to visit with family.  About 4,000 people call Mount Albert home and they call themselves “Mounties” or “Mount Albertarians”.  Mount Albert is named after Prince Albert, Prince of Wales (later Edward VII) son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, in honour of his visit to Upper Canada in 1860.

My Aunt has two beautiful cats. Henry an orange striped cat and Stirling an almost black cat. Henry was a friendly cat, while Stirling never really relaxed the whole weekend. He is even a little skittish with my Aunt and her family. So not to join the Cats of the Internet movement, but Henry was such a cooperative cat, I was able to take several portraits of him. Very photogenic.

I loved taking these photos as I don’t normally take shots with people or things in them. I usually just take cityscapes, landscapes and long exposure Waterfalls. I am really interested in taking aviation photos and more night photos. So stay tuned