Introduction

Welcome to the early stages in the development of a hobby-related website that will be a hodge podge of "stuff".

As of 2012 MAY 10 Thursday, there isn't much here except the start of a GPS Main Page. In the GPS section one will see some information that is related to one of my favourite passtimes, hiking and GPS work.

For the past few years I have developed some basic skills related to website design/management and graphics manipulation. Currently I have five sites that I look after.

• Grand Valley Trails Association
• Avon Trail
• Peninsula Bruce Trail Club
• Sydenham Bruce Trail Club
• Greg Vincent's Hiking Site
• By the Bay

Most of my websites are rather basic compared to many that one sees on the Internet today. My goal is to try to comply with "W3C" ... read on, unless you are bored already.

The small picture to the left shows the bark of a species of tree called the Common Hackberry (Celtis occidentalis L.), a member of the Elm family (Ulmaceae). For more information about this species of tree check Wikepedia.

The picture itself is positioned by a "CSS float left property" that one may learn at W3Schools.com or the World Wide Web Consortium. That is what I am doing. I am trying to get my web pages to pass the W3C Markup Validator, v0.8.6.

Below is the same picture, full size. The picture was taken a few metres off the Grand Valley Trail at Snyder's Flats, Bloomingdale (Google Maps of approximate location of Snyder's Flats; 43.509602,-80.478251). Note that in the Google Maps data base the road is lablelled Snider's Flats Rd not Snyder's.