This throwback Thursday Story dates back to a few years ago like 2014 maybe 2015 at the most I was on my trip to Tobermory with my dad, so we decided we're going to do our usual and go to Flower Pot Island. Now going to the island the water wasn't rough whatsoever going there and we had a great time at the island but coming back was not nice feeling as it was so much rougher then usual. Now they originally when we got on going there they gave up ponchos to wear so we wouldn't get wet and on the way home, I wore the poncho to ensure I was to remain dry as I had a camera with me, this could of been in the last many months or year as a YouTuber at the time and I was capturing moments of my holiday for the channel.
The ride back itself was bumpy as ever can be and a lot of splashing into the boat. I had to hold on with dear life to make sure I didn't go over board but I am sure they didn't let that happen to us and make sure we were safe on the trip back to the main land. I thought we were going to be stuck on the island but we probably would end up on a cruise boat as it is bigger and able to handle the waves more then a little Zephyr Zodiac boat as you can see in the picture above. I wasn't dry, I was wet head to two and even my clothes underneath were damp as well so it wasn't a pleasant feeling of being wet from this but it was an adventure and a half that I will never forget. It was a fun day regardless of the rough water.
Chris
I know I am extremely late on blog posts lately catching up on both podcasts and blogs and planning to promote Chris B On The Web at an event but here is the last part of of my vacation, so I do apologize for the blog's delayed.
So Day 3 of my holiday was probably one of the most hectic days for me on the vacation but was fun and a lot of exercise involved on this day. So after breakfast we went out to Bruce Peninsula National Park and trust me, had a heck of a time trying to find it, we literally passed by it and it seemed like we were heading home without our tent which was back at camp. Don't worry we ended up turning back around and very quickly and headed back north towards Tobermory. We were worried we weren't going to find it, so we planned on going back getting the stove to do lunch at Singing Sands Beach, however we managed to find the Bruce Peninsula Park. What was good about the park, as you know we just celebrated Canada's 150th Birthday this year and a day pass was free of charge so was so nice of the government to do that for us Canadians. However we had a time limit between 7 and 11 am to be at the Grotto and usually we do not spend a lot of time at the grotto, usually an hour at the most. The water at the Grotto, my body went into total shock and found it hard to breath at times swimming around. We found a frog hanging out on the rock I tried to pick it up but it hopped between some rocks.
After the Grotto and we went back to the car we went back to the camp to grab some lunch, followed by that we to Singing Sands Beach to hike and look for Rattlesnakes which we did not see any snakes compare to several years ago, probably since I was still in college at the time. So in total by the end of the hike we have accumulated 5 KM in total for our hike. Was very rewarding to hike that far in a day! Plus my weight maintained at 220 pounds and one of the reasons there hasn't been monthly updates on my weight loss progress as I have maintained at 220 or gone up a bit. So back to vacation talk on this blog, we went for a swim and was really more dunk your head under and get wet as the sand bars go from shallow to deep to shallow again, so it is hard to have an actual swim unless you keep on walking out further out which can take quite sometime.
So the evening we went out to a local fish place and ordered out dinner, local white fish and chips which was sooo good. It had the skin which sealed in the flavor in the breaded fish. We sat down at the Ferry docks to eat and afterwards we sat over on the rock for a while and watched the Chi-Cheemaun come in and of course we went to town to watch it leave. The final day was the windiest day of them all and the waves were huge as demonstrated in the picture on the right hand side of the post. I know that doesn't stop the ferry from running but the cruise boats were obviously cancelled and I took a picture of me next to one of the boats I took a cruise on when I was younger.
So we watched the Chi-Cheemaun depart and we were on our way home with a stop at Blue Mountain for a round of mini golf and a Meathead Pizza, so it was a fun filled trip and it truly felt good to be home and its been hard to come back to all of this but slowly re-adjusting to things again. One last picture below is the mini golf course I played, it was quite a challenge too!
Have a Great Night!
Chris
After 4 days of being away, I am back home! I do refreshed and raring to go! Despite recent drama the day I return home from holidays an old friend from Blogtv.com decided to turn on me, but whatever I got plenty of friends. Only broadcasting friend that is left I have is Santiago at the moment. Anyways I am now back and in this blog I am going to talk about the trip to the shortest extent as possible, however I am putting it into 2 parts, Day 1 & 2 today and Day 3 & 4 tomorrow to split things up as it is a lot of information to put out there in a blog post!
I left bright and early on the Monday with church in the morning followed by breakfast at Tim Horton's. Then the fun began with travel for 6 hours or a bit more. Mind you I won't bore you with the details of the travel, mainly I wrote on my pad of paper with ideas in my mind, keeping track of what I did on the trip. Read a book on the War of 1812, so it was pretty much boring stuff I did, which is very uninteresting to you guys anyways. So we were officially on Manitoulin Island and close to the ferry boat. We went on the way to our campground for the night, had a very easy dinner, chicken and potatoes which is traditional dinner we have when we go year after year. After dinner we were out to the beach and sat out on the beach, went for a walk, had a good time.
On Day 2, was a big day, we had breakfast, was the quickest one ever, we cleaned up and went for a walk on the board walk and some some murals in town. Then we packed up camp and drove on to South Baymouth with a stop at the marina nearby in Providence Bay. Once we got there, we went to a local art gallery and looked around, followed by lunch at the local restaurant, I had a triple Decker grilled cheese sandwich, small side of french fries. After that we went to the marina and the walk way and went out to the lighthouse for a peak and found a rock I decided to keep that reminded me of the Flower Pots on Flower Pot Island, which mind you I cannot find it now... I went up on a higher platform and was so gorgeous! Finally we went back to the car and drove onto the M.S. Chi-Cheemaun! Travel wise it was a tiny bit rough but I didn't really care it was rough, I like to rough so to speak, ha-ha! We arrived and we got a few things from the store as we needed milk and wieners (Hot Dogs) as we were planning on having it for lunch the very next day which will be in tomorrow's blog. After that we went to camp, setup for the next 30 - 37 hours camping in Tobermory. The evening, we went on a Sunset Cruise and was so much fun and the sunset itself was absolutely gorgeous! It was well worth taking a holiday away from the podcasts, blogs and websites. Finally in Saturday's blog I will be covering the last two days on my trip and it will be a lot more fun and activities going on. I apologize for the latest of blogs recently, I will start blogging more, don't worry.
Have a great night!
Chris
This throwback Thursday Story dates back to a few years ago like 2014 maybe 2015 at the most I was on my trip to Tobermory with my dad, so we decided we're going to do our usual and go to Flower Pot Island. Now going to the island the water wasn't rough whatsoever going there and we had a great time at the island but coming back was not nice feeling as it was so much rougher then usual. Now they originally when we got on going there they gave up ponchos to wear so we wouldn't get wet and on the way home, I wore the poncho to ensure I was to remain dry as I had a camera with me, this could of been in the last many months or year as a YouTuber at the time and I was capturing moments of my holiday for the channel.
