Birch Bark

Posted by Walt (Scarborough, Canada) on 17 November 2007 in Plant & Nature.

Just finished teaching a lesson on how Canada was built on the birch bark canoe...

Hard to imagine trusting my life to a craft made of this in rapids, etc. I guess I've just gotten pretty used to fibreglass, not really an option 400 years ago....

Canon EOS REBEL XT
1/125 second
F/5.6
ISO 200
97 mm