Composting toilet at MEC
Posted: May 21, 2018 Filed under: Canadian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Manitoba, Toilets at Shops Leave a commentIt might not be the most interesting loo to look at, but it’s a pretty cool concept. MEC in downtown Winnipeg has a composting toilet on their second floor, the contents of which is collected in the floor below and used as fertilizer.
I’ve since found out MEC has a Green Buildings initiative, of which the Winnipeg outlet was the first retail building in the country to comply with a national standard of reducing energy consumption by 50%. The composting toilet is of course part of this initiative. Good stuff!!
Hecla Island Wildlife Viewing Platform
Posted: May 20, 2018 Filed under: Canadian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Manitoba, Outdoors Leave a commentOn the way out of Hecla Island I spotted a trail at the side of the road which led to a wildlife viewing platform.
And here, ladies & gentlemen, is where I stubbed across the most peaceful setting for a loo in a long time, certainly in all of my Manitoban travels and maybe even in the past year or two of toilet tourism altogether. Isn’t this such a peaceful place in the bush to go about your business?
Some bonus photos of the viewing platform itself (I saw no wildlife aside from some mosquito kinda things) and a nearby lake:
Hecla Village
Posted: May 20, 2018 Filed under: Canadian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Manitoba, Outdoors Leave a commentOn the Sunday I took a drive about 2 hours north of Winnipeg to the Hecla Provincial Park. It’s a beautiful little peninsula that extends out into Lake Winnipeg, with pleasant roads, trails, fishing, scenery and opportunities to see Manitoba wildlife up close & personal.
Drop toilets featured prominently across the park, I guess because of the limited plumbing & electricity service. I stopped briefly in Hecla Village and found this tidy-on-the-outside but messy-on-the-inside drop toilet by the fishing pier:
A little up from the pier was this beautiful & secluded old church next to a graveyard. Note the drop toilets at the back of the cemetery, next to the red shed:
How’s this for toilet tranquility! Much cleaner inside this one too.
Outhouse at Hopewell Rocks
Posted: September 1, 2016 Filed under: Canadian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Maritimes, Outdoors, Outhouses Leave a commentThe first stop on my eastern Canadian roadtrip was this composting toilet at Hopewell Rocks, NB, the site of the world’s highest tide
Hybrid toilet
Posted: May 11, 2014 Filed under: Australian Toilets, Composting Toilets, North Queensland, Touristy Toilets | Tags: australia, hybrid, kuranda, north queensland, waterfall Leave a commentA hybrid composting toilet with a foot-powered flush at Barron Falls, not far from Kuranda in North Queensland.
The only running water out here is from the awesome waterfall:
Country toilet at the end of a long gravel road
Posted: May 5, 2013 Filed under: Australian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Outdoors, Regional NSW | Tags: composting, country, lens flare, lithgow, sunshine Leave a comment
A composting country toilet at the end of the gravel road leading to the Glow Worm Tunnel, just north of Lithgow
Country style
Posted: December 2, 2012 Filed under: Australian Toilets, Composting Toilets, Regional NSW | Tags: blue mountains, composting, country, glenbrook Leave a comment
A country style toilet at Glenbrook National Park, in Sydney’s Blue Mountains