Friday, 9 December 2011

Places Around Tobermory

     There are lots of other places to visit around the Tobermory area. Wiarton is about an hour drive from Tobermory. Sable Falls is a good way to cool off after a long hot summer day. Owen sound is a great place to shop.

     You pass through Wiarton on your way to Tobermory. You would probably remember it for the huge hill you have to drive up. Wiarton is the place where Wiarton Willie lives. He is the ground hog that determines whether there is more winter to come or if spring is just around the corner. There are caves to be explored around Wiarton. There is also lots of good biking trails.
    
    Sauble Falls is located in the southern part of the Bruce Peninsula. The falls are a little bit north from Sable beach. It is a low, wide water fall. It is very close to the road. People go there for swimming and fishing. I went swimming there few years ago and had a lot of fun.

    Owen sound is approximately an hour and a half away from Tobermory. They have lots of stores there. That’s where you go for big shopping trips. We don’t go there very often though. Last year we went there a few times to see movies. It is located on the southern shores of Georgian Bay.

     Those we some more activities to do around Tobermory.

Tuesday, 6 December 2011

Tobermory and Flower Pot Island

     Tobermory is a very popular place for vacations and camping. There is also an island not to far away from Tobermory that has rock on it that has eroded not to far away from the harbour. The island has two flower pot shaped rocks. That island is called flower pot island.

     Tobermory is known as the fresh water scuba diving capital of the world. It is a very popular town with naturalists, photographers, divers, and hikers. There are some very beautiful and delicate flowers in the area like the yellow lady slipper.

     There is a trail from Tobermory to Niagara falls called the Bruce trail. It is a very long trail. It is in the woods with designated camping areas. It is a very long and challenging walk. There is a stone monument set up in Tobermory for the people that complete the walk.
     Flower pot island is a twenty minute boat ride from Tobermory. It has trails on the island. There is a house there and every two weeks or so new people take turns to live in it. There is also a light house there. Around the flower pots there are some caves for exploring there as well.

     These are both very interesting places close by each other. They both have there own history. You should try to walk along the Bruce trail sometime.

Things To Do In Tobermory

     There are lots of things to do and see around Tobermory. Tobermory recently got a visitor centre built. If you are into climbing there’s the Grotto and no trip to Tobermory is complete with out a trip to singing sands.

     The visitor centre is a museum all about Tobermory. It has a video in a mini movie theatre room. There’s animals around Tobermory stuffed and the history about all the shipwrecks around the area. The visitor centre also has a big tower that you can climb up and look down at Tobermory from. They also have a trail there that goes off of the Bruce trail. Last but not least they even have a gift shop.

   

     After a long walk you finally get to a cliff called the Grotto. If you climb down it you find that it is on a underwater cave. It is a great place for diving. There is a beautiful view there. The Grotto is on the Georgian Bay side so the water is very cold.
    
     On the road my cottage is on, there is a very popular beach called singing sands. This beach is very long and sandy beach. It’s a very busy beach and popular. There is also trails used for walking and biking there. The trails there used to be used as a campsite but now is used for walking. If you go swimming there you have to be careful if its rough because there is under toe there. Under toe is when the waves come and hit the shore the water from the waves before it is underneath the wave. This can pull you under the water.

     Those were a few ideas for you if you ever go to Tobermory.

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Water Activities

     Tobermory is surrounded by water. With Lake Huron on the left side and Georgian Bay on the right. There are a tun of water activities including paddle boating, canoeing and kayaking.

     I have a canoe at my cottage. Occasionally I go for a paddle around the lake my cottage is on. My family and I take our canoe to Cameron Lake and flipped it and went underneath it when it was upside down in the water. We also paddled to the end of the lake and travelled through the channel there into the lake behind it. You also get to see a lot of animals because there isn’t a loud motor to scare them away.

     The Chi-Cheemaun is a giant ferry that carries cars and people to and from Manitoulin Island. It has a gift shop and a restaurant on it. There are railings out side the ship where you can go out side to see the view. It is about a two and a half hour boat ride.
    
     In Tobermory there is a small cruse ship company called the Blue Heron. They have a boat that has a area in the floor that’s glass . Its is a very neat cruse because they drive around and over ship wreaks and you can look at them through the bottom of the boat.

    
     These are just a few of the water activities that you can do at Tobermory. There is also fishing sailing and seadoing.

Monday, 28 November 2011

Favorite Places To Swim

     One of the main things people do when they go to Tobermory is swimming or water activities. This shouldn't be a surprise considering Tobermory is known for scuba diving. There are lots of ship wrecks to dive around. Including one in the Little Tub Harbor. I haven't gone diving with an oxygen tank. I prefer swimming or diving in not very deep water with a mask.

     One of my favorite places to swim is Cameron Lake. It is about 15 minutes to drive from my cottage. One of the reasons I like swimming there is that the water is so warm. Its also really sandy there. Cameron Lake is good for fishing and tubing.

     There is a place in Tobermory only the locals know about. They call it mermaids cove because apparently at night night people go skinny dipping there. The water is also very cold since it is on Georgian Bay Side. Its very deep and the water is very clear there.
    
     On the street my cottage is on, there is a fire lane and the address is 66. It is the Townships property but people are aloud on it. If you walk down, there is a flat rock beach there. The water is also very cold there until around the end of August. I love diving there. Its also a great place to swim.


     Those are my favorite places to swim. There are also a lot of other places to swim around Tobermory but I prefer my favorite places because I don't have to fight with the instant crowds of people.

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

My Summer Home

     I can barely remember when I got my cottage. The only thing I really remember was how up set I was because I had to quit soccer because I was way all summer.

    When we bought our cottage didn’t look very good. It was this ugly blue-green colour. It used to be used as a place to stay when the previous owners went hunting. It looked very tough inside and out. When my dad bought it he thought of it as a fixer up project. It took us approximately 5 summers or so to get it the way it is now.


     We basically rebuilt our cottage. It was a long process. One morning when we were still rebuilding my cottage there was a bat flying around and we were chasing it with badminton rackets. The dock was just whole bunch of pieces of wood nailed together. One May 24 weekend we got ride of our old dock and rebuild a new one. It went well except for the water snakes home we got rid of with are old dock.
    
     A few years ago we built a gazebo by our dock. It’s a nice place to sit and look at the lake out of the sun. Now that all the works done we can just sit and relax. Last summer my friend Rachel came to my cottage and she was swinging on an old rope in the forest and it broke. Its fun times like these that I can now enjoy. Now that my cottage is finished.
    
     We have had our cottage for 10 years now and it took a bit of time to get it the way it is. I’m now looking forward to years to come there.

Tuesday, 15 November 2011

Wild Life

     Around Tobermory there is lots of forests and trees. In all of those forests there is alot of wild life. There is everything from small cute animals to dangerous or even venomous ones.

     At my cottage we always have chipmunks running around. It is also because we feed them. When I was younger I used to feed the chipmunks and I even got to pet them. Every now and then we see the occasional  rabit, but not very often. We also have squirrels at my cottage, but I don't feed them because there not very cute.

     You have to be careful where you step in Tobermory, because there are rattle snakes. Never wear flip flops there because if you step on one it will bite you. Black bears are also some thing you don't want to run into. If you come across a black bear you are supost to make yourself look very tall and make loud noises. If you have a small dog or pet and you let it go outside you will want to watch it extra close if you go to Tobermory. Or the area around it because of these animals called fishers. I haven't seen a fishers except a stuffed on in a museum, but they are suppsed to be very vicious.
    
     There are all kinds of birds around the area. The Blue Heron is the bird that's known around the area. There beautiful birds. Hard to find. There's also lots of seaguls. There the most common bird. There also very anoying. There's also lots of Bule Jays. There pretty birds.

      This is just a few types of animals that live in Tobermory. There arer lots of other types of animals. You need to visit the area to see all of the animals.