Education Page
Boating Safety
Ann Doritty
Ann Doritty will tackle the important issue of Boat Safety. Last season she arranged boat safety lessons that had to be cancelled. She also wrote about some critical boat safety issues such as drinking and driving, “watch your wake” and right-of-way. This season Ann will continue with reminders and introduce some new rules from Transport Canada for boaters and property owners alike and if, allowed, boat safety courses.
Boating Safety
Pointe au Baril is a beautiful boater’s playground filled with inlets, coves, big open waters, islands and shoals to explore. We see a wide variety of boats on our waters including kayaks, canoes, sailboats, power boats, cruisers, speed boats and personal watercraft....
PaBIA’s Boater Testing – Wednesday Afternoons
For anyone who would like to take the boating test to receive their boating license can do so by signing up either at the Marine Patrol or the Ojibway offices. Randy Johnson can be contacted for further details or questions. These tests are given in the Ojibway lounge...
GEORGIAN BAY BOATERS AND COTTAGERS CODE
In a water based, largely water access only community we are all boaters. Both recreational boaters and cottagers share the same concerns about safe enjoyment and environmental protection of our waterways. This code is intended to apply to all boaters;...
Water Levels & Quality
Janet Irving
A thorough and competent writer, last season Janet produced articles for us on difficult topics such as Water Levels and Microplastics. This season her focus will be on PaB history and mystery! NEW this summer, Janet has organized with Parry Sound Books owner, Charlotte Stein, “Literally on the Bay.” Charlotte will briefly review a selection of fiction, non fiction and children’s books set in or focused on Georgian Bay each week of the season
Sturgeon Bay remediation for Bluegreen Algae
PaBIA Remarks to ToA Council 7/18/14 Introduction: Good afternoon, I am Dan Kuhn, President of PaBIA, and I want to thank you for the opportunity to address Council on the issue of Sturgeon Bay remediation for bluegreen algae. But before I do, I would like to be...
Summer 2013 Water Levels Issues and positions
The following are links to the GBA and GBF Documents responding to the Final Report from the International Upper Great Lakes Study (IUGLS) Report as well as recent position papers by these organizations on the water levels issue. PaBIA Low water Cottage access Initial...
Trudy's Nature Byline
Trudy Irvine
With her own weekly nature byline all season, Trudy will amaze and charm you with her witty personal stories and observations of nature.
The Grammar of Animacy – A Conversation with Robin Wall Kimmerer
I can attest that, as a student of biology in the early 90’s, anthropomorphism and personification were frowned upon. Plants and animals were to be viewed through a scientific lens and were largely regarded as an increasingly complex series of cellular structures and...
Snakes and (Tennis) Ladders
by Trudy Irvine, Member Education Committee Tennis players at the Club were treated to the sight of an enormous Eastern Fox Snake sunning itself along the shoulder height horizontal bar of the Court 1 enclosure on Sunday morning. Obviously, an enthusiast of the game,...
The Chipmunk
by Trudy Irvine, Member Education Committee Over the last year have you: Observed social distancing?Stockpiled “supplies” (raised eyebrow) for an upcoming period of enforced isolation?Spent the winter in your burrow, emerging from a state of torpor only to raid...
Three Short Videos of Birds
Mayflies
Mayflies, or shadflies are hatching in great numbers. Relatives of dragonflies and damselflies, these short-lived insects belong to an order fittingly named Ephemeroptera. There are many species all over the world and in our area. They became known as...