Mazinaw Rock
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Bon Echo Provincial Park
Bon Echo Provincial Park, located just North of Cloyne, ON Canada is one of Ontario's largest provincial parks. It sits on Mazinaw Lake, the second deepest lake in Ontario besides the Great Lakes. Mazinaw Lake is over 15 kilometres in length with an average width of 1 kilometre and a maximum depth of 145 metres.
Bon Echo is a beautiful park in all seasons. The park is not maintained in the winter but it is open for day use for snow-shoeing or cross-country skiing. Vehicle camping is available in the summer and fall on the East side of the park, while wilderness camping is available on the larger, western side of the park for the more adventurous campers.
Mazinaw Rock
Bon Echo Rock is one of the most majestic natural features in Ontario. You can take a ferry ride across the lake and hike up the rock using the park's maintained hiking trails (a fairly easy and rewarding hike...500m one way...highly recommended...$3.25 fee for the boat ride ($2.25 for children)). You can also take a ferry ride that travels along the rock's granite cliff and examine the hundreds of native pictographs that line the cliff face or you can bring your own canoe or kayak and examine them at your own pace. From the museum, you can look through a telescope and see a carving that the founders of the park created in the cliff.
Formation of the Rock
Many years ago all of Eastern Ontario was under a great sea with a bottom made up of silt, sand and lime. There was significant volcanic activity in the area and lava and large chunks of volcanic rock exploded from vents and faults along the sea floor. This spread volcanic rock over huge distances, creating what we know as the Canadian Shield and more specifically, the area called the Mazinaw Lake Metavolcanic Complex. As the Earth cooled (about 1.1 million years ago), tremendous pressure built up and caused the Earth's crust to fold. Large hills known as rock "pillows" formed. These pillows consisted of layers of harder and softer rock. Water and glaciation slowly ate away at the softer layers, leaving large trenches and cliffs. The Mazinaw Lake is really just a huge trench that has filled with water and the Mazinaw Rock is what is left of one of these cliffs that once towered high above the Earth.
To Log this Earthcache
You must send an email to me (click here) in order to log this cache as a find. Go ahead and submit your log as I will not necessarily respond to your email. If I don't receive an email from you after 3 days, I will delete your found log. The email must include the following four requirements:
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The date of your visit to the park
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Two pieces of information that you have learned while at the park (Not information that was mentioned in the above description.)
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The exact altitude of either the posted co-ordinates or the altitude at the look-out at the top of the rock.
A photo of you that was taken at the posted co-ordinates would be appreciated.. If you hike up to the top of the rock, you can also take a picture from up there.
Have fun caching and remember...be safe!