Saturday, December 6, 2008

Soft Snow on the Smelly Fields - Playing with my Camera

I woke up around 6 this morning and went to a first-aid course for infants and children during the morning.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
The class covered blood and breathing and airways and broken bones and cuts and choking and CPR and slings and compression bandages and more.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
It has refreshed my first-aid training from years ago. I knew it all, but the CPR - the technique had seeped away from my brain.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
When it was all over, I got a coffee from a Tim Horton's shop around the corner from the hospital.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
I headed back in the general direction of home, and then turned north when I remembered that I had brought my new camera along with me.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
The views looked nice and so I turned on my camera and drove a bit until I found a nice looking area.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
A little snow was falling and it was a few degrees below freezing.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
Bundled up in my shearling cap, warm gloves and my super warm alpine coat, I ended up in a corn field. The smell of pig manure blew over me and I looked around the horizon trying to find a pig farm.

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bushcraft, mungo says bah, camping, hiking, photography, nature, flora, outdoors
After a few minutes, it became apparent that the farmer had sprayed pig manure on the field as a fertilizer.

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I figured that out once I had walked about 30 feet into the field.

Cheers,

Mungo