Wiarton Willie

Another beautiful morning in paradise! Walked into town for coffee. Tour boat operators open, flogging their stories. Tourists running to meet the boats to be ferried off to the Flowerpot Island and beyond.  Dive store owners meeting the customers in their doorways.  Supposedly, The Bruce Peninsula has the best diving in Canada (lots of shipwrecks and unique underwater vegetation) Stopped and soaked up some morning sun while sucking on a coffee. Then we drove around and checked the area out. Quite a cottage community, New Home Hardware Store for all the big cottages being built. Prices still quite reasonable for waterfront lots.

Then down the road an hour to Wiarton and home of Willie, the prognosticating marsupial.

After walking around the town and finding that the Municipal Campground had room for us, we set up camp and then went for a bike ride. Rode over to Sauble Beach (second largest fresh water beach in the world). Reminded me of Whiterock without the ocean smell. Thousands of people playing and sunbathing, stores set up in tents ready for the summer tourist season. Drove the strip and then got lost down a road. Arrived in Owen's Sound at the far south end of Georgian Bay of Lake Huron. Fabulous old brick architecture. Amazing steepled, buttressed old Churches made out of brick, some red and others beige. Love these brick buildings and houses, unfortunately some were kept in great shape while others have seen hard times.

Then we started riding out of town along the lakeshore, more brick mansions on the bluffs overlooking the lake. Came to an overlook of the Georgian Bay on Niagara Escarpment (part of the Niagara Falls and extends to Tobermory) The Georgian Bay bluffs are part of this escarpment. 

Back to my story, this overlook was a dedication to the woman who started the Kemble Women's Institute is the oldest active chapter in the world which  has over 9 million members, including the queen.