Canada is blessed with many wild places, and
as a whole Canadians value natural uninhabited land. However, it wasn’t always so. There was a time when we Canadians exploited Canada’s natural
resources, in particular its old growth forests, with what might be considered
a reckless abandon. We clear cut and burned over areas with no thought for the
future, until one day this resource all but gave out. Today there is a push to
return those exploited areas to their former natural state, exhibited by the
growing number of Provincial and National parks. Little by little the exploited
areas are returning to a natural state........
Lake Superior Provincial Park
I’ve
sketched in a number of Canada’s parks. For me personally there’s nothing better than to
hike a few miles from a busy highway and to sit quietly on a ridge overlooking
a wilderness devoid of civilization, or to sit beside a remote lake and to
enjoy the kind of solitude that exists only in remote and wild places. The
smell of the pine and the call of a loon on a remote lake are things to be
treasured. One of my favorite parks is Lake Superior Provincial Park.
Lake Superior
Provincial Park is aptly named as its southern boundary borders Lake
Superior.The park is1,600
square kilometres in area. The southern boundary of the park is 130 km northwest of Sault
St Marie, Ontario, and the northern boundary is15 km south of Wawa, Ontario.
About Lake Superior (Lac Supérieur),
it is the largest of the five traditionally demarcated Great Lakes of North America and is the largest
freshwater lake in the world. It has a surface
area of 31,700 square miles, a length of 350 miles and at its widest
it is 160 miles wide. For all intent and purpose it might be considered an inland ocean, or
sea. It’s a cold and inhospitable body of water, of which those who sail it
will testify. Rumour has it that
Lake Superior is so deep, and so cold, that it never gives up its dead.
The following are a few sketches and drawings from recent sketching trips to Lake Superior Provincial Park: -
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Sketchbook Pencil Sketch - Crescent Lake |
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Lake Superior Island - Pen and Ink sketch on beige coloured paper. |
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Island in Sinclair Cove - Pencil on notebook paper. |
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Sand River, Upper Pool - Pen and Ink on beige coloured paper. |
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Sand River - Pen and Ink on beige coloured paper. |
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Northern Wilderness - Graphite Drawing |
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