Long Point Eco-Adventures: Canoeing Big Creek
Join Long Point Eco-Adventures for a great paddling adventure on Big Creek.
Appropriately called the Canadian Amazon, this gentle meandering waterway winds south through the Carolinian forests of Norfolk County into the Big Creek National Wildlife Area, an internationally recognized marsh and wetland, and finally empties into Long Point Inner Bay.
Experienced guides will share their knowledge of the geology, ecology, and culture of this exceptional ecosystem which is part of the United Nations designated Long Point World Biosphere.
All tours include your boat rental as well as life jackets, dry bag, paddles, and water safety kit.
Call us at 1-877-743-TOUR or visit lpfun.ca to book online today!
We Took On Big Creek and Lived to Tell About It!
Big Creek in Southwestern Ontario flows from Delhi to the marshes at Long Point in Lake Erie. In August, 2018, we took on a 15km portion of it from County Road 8 in Norfolk County (Lower Big Creek Conservation Area) to Lakeshore Rd., at Port Royal.
We soon learned that this was not your lazy Sunday afternoon paddle. Fraught with fallen trees, this river gave us fits around every corner. A 20-minute (or so...) bushwhack & self-made portage along the riverbank was needed to get around a massive pile-up of timber and logs. Supposedly there is a marked portage trail here, but we never found it.
As maddening as it was at times, the experience and true beauty of the surrounding canopy and bald eagle sightings more than made up for it. Carolinian forests surround this river that is home to several hundred bird species and wildlife. Big Creek National Wildlife Area has been referred to as Canada's Amazon for good reason.
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Music Credits:
Authentic Bluegrass 2 (2010) - Stefan Netsman
Johnny Crash (2009) - Stefan Netsman
Aerial - Long Point - Waterford Ponds - Big Creek Wetland - Norfolk County
Aerial footage of Waterford Ponds, Big Creek wetland, Long Point. Norfolk County's library of video footage is available for media outlets to use free of charge, with permission from Norfolk County Tourism. Contact tourism@norfolkcounty.ca or 519-426-9497.
Big Creek Long Point, ON Canoe Excursion 072318
Our canoeing adventure into Big Creek National Wildlife Area, Long Point, ON Canada
Starting & returning to Cronmiller's At the Bridge marina.
We rented 2 double canoes & 1 kayak & I videoed from my 3 piece 12 foot single canoe. Lots of fun & a chance to see Long Point form a different perspective.
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Port Rowan, Long Point and Big Creek, July 2012
Long Point Eco-Adventures: Trip to Tip
Go where roads can't take you and experience the legends and allure of Long Point, by taking this adventurous Trip to the Tip.
This exciting and educational expedition takes you all the way out to the Tip of the world's largest freshwater sand-spit. Consisting of 26,250 hectares, Long Point stretches 42km's out into Lake Erie and is said to be the most remote and vast piece of wilderness left in Southern Ontario.
This 4-hour tour is more than just a one-of-a-kind adventure, it includes a number of educational stops where you will learn all about Long Point's unique natural and historical features.
10:00am -- 2:00pm, weekdays and weekends in June, July, August and September
All tours include life jackets, snacks, bottled water, safety instructions and experienced guides.
Call us at 1-877-743-TOUR or book online today @ lpfun.ca!
Samba Days Gift Experiences - Big Creek Kayak Adventure
Enjoy a half-day kayak adventure when you purchase a Samba Days Explore and Learn gift experience. Join us for a relaxing paddling adventure on Big Creek on the north shore of Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario. This Class One paddle is leisurely enough for newcomers and technical enough to keep everyone smiling. Appropriately called the Canadian Amazon, this gentle meandering waterway winds south through the Carolinian forests of Norfolk County into the Big Creek National Wildlife Area, an internationally recognized marsh and wetland, and eventually empties into Long Point Inner Bay. Professional guides will educate on the flora and fauna specific to the area.
48 Hours in Long Point (in 48 seconds)
Long Point, Ontario
Hidden jewel of Long Point, revealed.
Long Point Lake fishing
A view of Long Point Lake (near Elk Lake, Ontario), from our boat. Out doing some bass fishing and enjoying a beautiful day on the lake.
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Long Point Ontario shot with a jvc hm300 and edited in Sony Vegas HD Platinum
Long Point Beach Club
This video is about Long Point Beach Club Motel
A Quickie in Turkey Point
Turkey Point is Norfolk County's summer playground ... and it's also a great place to take a quiet walk along the beach in spring.
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Long Point Provincial Park and Beyond
Just a quick flight in Long Point.
Fish guarding their nests in Long Point bay marsh
Fish guarding their nests in Long Point bay marsh.
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Our Miss Brooks: Boynton's Barbecue / Boynton's Parents / Rare Black Orchid
Our Miss Brooks is an American situation comedy starring Eve Arden as a sardonic high school English teacher. It began as a radio show broadcast from 1948 to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952--56), it became one of the medium's earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for big screen in the film of the same name.
Connie (Constance) Brooks (Eve Arden), an English teacher at fictional Madison High School.
Osgood Conklin (Gale Gordon), blustery, gruff, crooked and unsympathetic Madison High principal, a near-constant pain to his faculty and students. (Conklin was played by Joseph Forte in the show's first episode; Gordon succeeded him for the rest of the series' run.) Occasionally Conklin would rig competitions at the school--such as that for prom queen--so that his daughter Harriet would win.
Walter Denton (Richard Crenna, billed at the time as Dick Crenna), a Madison High student, well-intentioned and clumsy, with a nasally high, cracking voice, often driving Miss Brooks (his self-professed favorite teacher) to school in a broken-down jalopy. Miss Brooks' references to her own usually-in-the-shop car became one of the show's running gags.
Philip Boynton (Jeff Chandler on radio, billed sometimes under his birth name Ira Grossel); Robert Rockwell on both radio and television), Madison High biology teacher, the shy and often clueless object of Miss Brooks' affections.
Margaret Davis (Jane Morgan), Miss Brooks' absentminded landlady, whose two trademarks are a cat named Minerva, and a penchant for whipping up exotic and often inedible breakfasts.
Harriet Conklin (Gloria McMillan), Madison High student and daughter of principal Conklin. A sometime love interest for Walter Denton, Harriet was honest and guileless with none of her father's malevolence and dishonesty.
Stretch (Fabian) Snodgrass (Leonard Smith), dull-witted Madison High athletic star and Walter's best friend.
Daisy Enright (Mary Jane Croft), Madison High English teacher, and a scheming professional and romantic rival to Miss Brooks.
Jacques Monet (Gerald Mohr), a French teacher.
Our Miss Brooks was a hit on radio from the outset; within eight months of its launch as a regular series, the show landed several honors, including four for Eve Arden, who won polls in four individual publications of the time. Arden had actually been the third choice to play the title role. Harry Ackerman, West Coast director of programming, wanted Shirley Booth for the part, but as he told historian Gerald Nachman many years later, he realized Booth was too focused on the underpaid downside of public school teaching at the time to have fun with the role.
Lucille Ball was believed to have been the next choice, but she was already committed to My Favorite Husband and didn't audition. Chairman Bill Paley, who was friendly with Arden, persuaded her to audition for the part. With a slightly rewritten audition script--Osgood Conklin, for example, was originally written as a school board president but was now written as the incoming new Madison principal--Arden agreed to give the newly-revamped show a try.
Produced by Larry Berns and written by director Al Lewis, Our Miss Brooks premiered on July 19, 1948. According to radio critic John Crosby, her lines were very feline in dialogue scenes with principal Conklin and would-be boyfriend Boynton, with sharp, witty comebacks. The interplay between the cast--blustery Conklin, nebbishy Denton, accommodating Harriet, absentminded Mrs. Davis, clueless Boynton, scheming Miss Enright--also received positive reviews.
Arden won a radio listeners' poll by Radio Mirror magazine as the top ranking comedienne of 1948-49, receiving her award at the end of an Our Miss Brooks broadcast that March. I'm certainly going to try in the coming months to merit the honor you've bestowed upon me, because I understand that if I win this two years in a row, I get to keep Mr. Boynton, she joked. But she was also a hit with the critics; a winter 1949 poll of newspaper and magazine radio editors taken by Motion Picture Daily named her the year's best radio comedienne.
For its entire radio life, the show was sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, promoting Palmolive soap, Lustre Creme shampoo and Toni hair care products. The radio series continued until 1957, a year after its television life ended.
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