I have wanted to tackle a 365 Project (366 in this case as it's a leap year) since my days at Ontario College of Art in the early 90's. But I knew myself well, and was certain it would end up incomplete like so many other projects in the past. I'm one of those people who always has more than a few projects on the go, and find myself jumping around between them like a madman afflicted with ADD. When I heard a small group of geocaching friends were going to attempt their own 365 Project, I decided that I would join in the fun, and that it might provide me the extra incentive to complete it. And besides, it will make an awesome photo album to look back on a single year in my life, day-by-day. And since painting has for my entire life, been my main focus creatively, the fact that this will be my first real photographic project with any sort of focus, is exciting, and should be a great learning experience.

23rd June 2012

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Day 175: Spent a great day hiking the Friendship Trail near Port Colborne, and stopped at Jordan Harbour with a few other cachers on the way home. This abandoned ship, modeled after Jacque Cartier’s Grande Hermine, in which he discovered the St. Lawrence estuary in 1535. The original wooden hull was destroyed in a fire, leaving it in its current state. More info & pics

Day 175: Spent a great day hiking the Friendship Trail near Port Colborne, and stopped at Jordan Harbour with a few other cachers on the way home. This abandoned ship, modeled after Jacque Cartier’s Grande Hermine, in which he discovered the St. Lawrence estuary in 1535. The original wooden hull was destroyed in a fire, leaving it in its current state.

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3rd March 2012

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Day 63: Spent an awesome day hiking/caching in the Hamilton area, and like last weekend, we were targeting high D/T combos. This was our start point, and location of a cache from a series called “Historic Hamilton”. The Grassie Blacksmith Shop was the last operating blacksmith in Mount Albion, and was built by Robert Grassie when he emigrated from Scotland in 1847. It stopped operations permanently in 1907 when Grassie was killed in an accident. A fire in 1984 destroyed most of the building.

Day 63: Spent an awesome day hiking/caching in the Hamilton area, and like last weekend, we were targeting high D/T combos. This was our start point, and location of a cache from a series called “Historic Hamilton”. The Grassie Blacksmith Shop was the last operating blacksmith in Mount Albion, and was built by Robert Grassie when he emigrated from Scotland in 1847. It stopped operations permanently in 1907 when Grassie was killed in an accident. A fire in 1984 destroyed most of the building.

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