Today is a full day on the Bruce Peninsula. We start by heading into the Town of Tobermory, a village located at the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula.
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| Orchid |
At the visitors center in Tobermory we get maps and oriented. There is a great museum inside the visitors center and we learn all sorts of interesting facts, like over 40 different varieties of orchids grow wild up here...who knew? I can't get a single orchid to bloom in my house!
I take pictures of pictures in the museum :)
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| Snakes thrive up here |
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| Niagara Escarpment |
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| Little Tub Harbor |
We walk into the center of the tiny town of Tobermory and come upon, Little Tub Harbor, the smaller of Tobermory's twin harbors. It's a busy marina with seasonal vessels plus the main departure point for tours within the Fathom Five National Marine Park.
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| Northern Terminus Cairn of Bruce Trail |
Along the way we come upon the Northern Terminus Cairn, which signifies the end of the Bruce Trail in Tobermory. We hiked a portion of the 900 km trail yesterday on our way to The Grotto.
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| MS Chi-Cheemaun about to load |
The MS Chi-Cheemaun pulls into the harbor while we are enjoying our picnic lunch on a rock in the bay. It's a ferry that traverses Lake Huron between Tobermory on the Bruce Peninsula and South Baymouth on Manitoulin Island.
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| Chi-Cheemaun on its way to Manitoulin Island |
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| Views of Little Dunks Bay |
After walking about the town of Tobermory, we head back to the visitors center and head out on a hike to Little Dunks Bay lookout. Great trail through the woods and rocks out to nice views of Georgian Bay. The blues of these waters is very impressive.
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| Big Tub Lighthouse - circa 1885 |
After 4pm we are allowed to launch our kayaks in Big Tub Harbor to kayak over the ship wrecks. Prior to 4pm is all the tourist boats and scuba divers.
Unfortunately the wind is up and causing dangerous swells against the rocks for launching our kayaks...darn.
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| Big Tub Harbor Resort kayak launch |
We head up the road into the Big Tub harbor and find a resort where we can safely launch the kayaks as it's just up the channel enough to be protected.
We kayak to the end of Big Tub Harbor and sue enough we find two ship wrecks.
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| Ship wreck |
The water is so crystal clear that the boats seem like they are right below us but they are quite deep.
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| Second ship wreck |
The second ship wreck is much closer to the surface for us to clearly see. Very cool.
On our way back to our campground, we make one final stop at Singing Sands beach. Being the west side of Bruce Peninsula we are now on Lake Huron.
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| Lake Huron |
The beach is expansive with fragile sand dunes, rare flowers and a board walk.
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| Boardwalk trail views |
Lots of unusual plants grow in the wet lands here including the Carnivorous Pitcher Plant, which derives much of its nutrients by eating insects that fall into its mouth :)
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| Carnivorous Pitcher Plant |
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Lit under road crossings for turtles and snakes
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In Alberta we have large animal crossings over our highways in the National Parks. Here in this National Park they have lit under the road crossings for turtles and snakes. How cool is that.
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Sea gull hitch hiker
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Back at the truck we have picked up a hitch hiker...cute but he has to go before he poops...lol
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| Sun setting on Cyprus Lake, Bruce Peninsula |
We know the sunsets at 7:45 and we are determined to be sitting on the dock at Cyprus Lake, right off our campsite, with a craft beer in hand to enjoy it.
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| Chris silhouette on Cyprus Lake |
Another late supper and we are done for the day :)
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