Guardians of the Ottawa River

On the Ottawa Riverkeeper website I linked yesterday* (expect it to pop up regularly in this blog), I've found a page about another writer who keeps an eye on our local rivers, Katherine Fletcher. The Riverkeepers have been around since 2000. The organisation itself publishes a blog and encourages interested people to get involved in its work.

Last summer our Diplomatic Hospitality group met a couple of representatives of the Riverkeeper team at a picnic in Britannia Bay, where a trolley bus used to stop at the park, bringing families from Ottawa to the beach for a day's outing. This was the last stop on the line. Under the roof of the former platform we spent a pleasant time there in our sunhats, sharing our lunch and then learning about the river.

Diplomatic Hospitality picnic, June 2010

* Thanks for the comment, Faith –– now it's a perfect storm because we're having an unusually hot and dry summer was a peculiar way of putting it indeed. I never noticed though, until you pointed it out.