Flower Pot Island Lighthouse Garden

Flower Pot Island is situated about 5km north east of Tobemory in Lake Huron.  It is the southern most part of a channel that ships must pass through when travelling between Georgian Bay and the open part of Lake Huron.  Ships in the 19^th Century would pass through here to take goods to mid-north Ontario, which would then often travel overland to Toronto.  As it was the southern most point of this passage a lighthouse was critical.  This lighthouse was manned from 1897 until 1987, and the light house keeper and family would have to live here, with contact only every month or so.  Interestingly enough a nice garden was established, and here’s some shots from it.

 The best way to shoot flowers of a consistent height is to level the camera at that height and shoot across the top of them.   The other thing to do is to look for multiples of the same flower or patterns in the way stems bend.

Flower Pot Island is so named do to the natural weathering of the stone on the Eastern side of the island creating very distinct flower pot like shapes, as per the photo below.