It's already getting to be mid-August and we can feel fall in the air -- different winds picking up off the lake. As beautiful as blue L. Ontario is, we know that there's more to this than scenery. There are chemicals still in the lake sediments, invasive mussels, snails, fish, eels, fluctuating lake levels which affect shoreline animals like mink and otter, as well as the marshes, impending wind farms and hydro-diversion in the Niagara R. and constant runoff from agriculture, lawn chemicals, waste water treatment. Blue-green algae blooms, giant green blobs of floating algae and now water lily beds which were never there before. Where have we been sleeping while the great lakes just seeped in this and we along the shore let it go on?
This image, right, was taken in early August when a powerful off-shore breeze pushed the waves even higher. Image taken by ChristineLikeCamera.
-- posted by Barbara
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