Sandbanks

We were here this time last year, wish I was now! Instead I'm sitting in a very hot room watching the World Cup Final. It's a good match but I can't help feeling guilty at being inside on a day like this.

Sandbanks is a park on Quinte Island in Lake Ontario. It has (apparently) the largest system of sand dunes on any freshwater coastline in the world. It's hard to believe you're on a lake when you sit there watching the waves come in. Quinte Island is about an hour (maybe less) from Kingston, three from Toronto. It's very rural, dotted with highly picturesque farm buildings and pleasant Loyalist towns. It reminds me, a bit (just a bit) of Zeeland. I wish I was in that water now, and as soon as this match is over I'm off down the pool.

Details: Nikon D70, 18-70mm lens @ 18mm, f/11, 1/125s, ISO 400. Sandbanks Provincial Park, Ontario, 10 July 2005. Placemark.