Wild flowers & Wind Turbines

Oh my, I just saw this is my 2,920th entry! I've been a member of Blipfoto for 14 years or so. It's really not my 8th Blip birthday, but this many blips is certainly worth celebrating! Plus I'm happy to say I've been posting daily since May 2024, the longest stretch since probably 2015.

We took a lot of photos today, so it was hard to decide, but I really like this one. We saw these beautiful wild flowers when we walked at Maple Cross Meadow, part of the Nature Conservancy of Canada. 

There is also a wind turbine very near this nature reserve that you can walk right up to. Usually we only see them in the distance, which makes their size quite deceiving. The height of the turbines: 80 meters or 262 ft tall. Each rotor blades length is 45 meters or 147 ft long!!! They are huge if you stand underneath one. The extra photo shows Steve standing under one, so you can see the relative size.

There are 86 of them on Wolfe Island. They don't provide electricity directly for the island. The wind farm project was developed by Canadian Renewable Energy and is owned by Canadian Hydro. The turbines generate 594 gigawatt-hours of renewable power annually, supplying about 75,000 average households. The wind farm started here in 2009 and it's very interesting to see so many of them on this rural island.