Sorry if this email is a
little short but I have caught a flu virus and I am not feeling too well at the
moment but I do have some sweet pics for you guys to make up for it.
On Monday last week we
went up to Tobermory and hiked along the coast next to the lake and it was
super beautiful. I even drank out of the lake up there because the water is
super clean and drinkable. It was a good thing to experience and I wish I
had more time to go back and hike it again.
The rest of the week was
just a pretty regular week nothing too exciting.
On Saturday this week we
have a lady named Joan getting baptized! I am super excited for her and I know
how much this is truly going to bless her life.
I love you all so much and
wish the best of luck to you this coming week.
--
Elder Murray
Here is a little history
on the area that we hiked :
This shoreline marks the
northern extremity of the Niagara Escarpment in southern Ontario. Stretching
unbroken for 465 miles across southern Ontario from Niagara Falls. The
escarpment was created by erosion of layered sedimentary rocks deposited in
ancient seas of the Paleozoic Era over 400 million years ago. Portions of the
escarpment form the islands between Tobermory and South Baymouth and the same
Paleozolic rocks shape the geology of Manitoulin Island. The rock of the
escarpment is very old. Approximately 400 million years ago, this area was
covered by a shallow tropical sea teeming with life in the form of plant-like
animals, crustaceans, living corals and mollusks. It would have looked much
like the present-day Great Barrier Reef of Australia. When the sea began to dry
up, the minerals dissolved in it became more and more concentrated. Magnesium
in the water was absorbed into the limestone, which then became a softer,
slightly different sort of rock, called dolomite. Where erosion has cut more
deeply, caves have been formed, such as the famed "Grotto" on the
shore between the Marr Lake and Georgian Bay Trails. Great blocks of dolomite,
undercut by wave action, have tumbled from the cliffs above and can be clearly
seen below the surface of the deep, clean waters of Georgian Bay.
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