August 14, 2019 - August 18, 2019
From Niagara Falls we headed towards Toronto to our campground in Scarborough which is just east of Toronto. Driving through downtown Toronto on raised interstate roads was so unnerving that we decided to scrap our visit there and head north to Georgian Bay instead. We spent one night in the Scarborough and I made an effort to drive to Whitby and Bowmanville, Ontario where some of my ancestors lived. I got to Whitby and realized that I was not going to see anything that even resembled the old towns so I bagged it and we left the next morning for Parry Sound. Having grown up in Michigan I had heard about Georgian Bay for years. We also saw a geology program about the rock formations there and that also fed my interest.
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Took a two hour cruise on Parry Sound on the Island Queen.
Although we didn't actually get out on Georgian Bay I got a sense of the place and it's beauty. |
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| The town of Parry Sound from the boat just after we left the dock. |
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Sailing is extremely popular in this area and for good reason.
This area is part of the great lakes and they say this about the lakes:
"Unsalted and shark free!" |
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| It's a very rocky area (similar to the San Juan Islands in Washington) due to glaciers scraping off all the topsoil as they retreated north in the last ice age. |
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| Many of the islands are privately owned and have summer homes built on them. |
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| A narrow passage between islands called "hole in the wall". |
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| Closeup of the rocks as we passed through "hole in the wall". |
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