Winona and Binbrook (Day 3)

Today was promised to be sunnier than yesterday and so we set out with the hope of finding some brilliant colours along the Escarpment. Unfortunately, someone forgot to tell the clouds. So when we first set out we drove along the Escarpment to the west and looking for some good vantage points of the slope. We found a few but the sun was still in hiding. We eventually had a few short periods of sun and were able to gather some nice photos of a few spots. But the sun was soon covered so we decided to head back up the ridge and into the back roads.

Mike wanted to return to a small pond we had shot at back in 2010 so I looked up the GPS coordinates from an old photo and we drove south to find the road side pond. It didn’t take us very long to reach the spot though we almost stumbled past it before realizing we were there. Checking the co-ordinates, they matched our records, and sure enough the pond was here – sort of. During intervening four years the grasses and marsh plants had swallowed up most of the open water and we weren’t able to find the interesting objects that so enamoured us last time. The clouds had also thickened given a dull look to everything. And we even were splattered with a bit of rain. Mike and I did gather a few close-up photos but not the numbers we were hoping for.