Category Archives: Georgian Bay

The longest freshwater beach in the world

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Yesterday we walked on the shores of Lake Huron along Wasaga Beach, the longest freshwater  beach in the world!

The empty beach volleyball courts lie waiting for their potential champions, whilst further up the bay the kites paint their ever changing patterns against the clouds . . .

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The McMichael Canadian Art Collection

222px-Lawren_Harris_-_North_Shore,_Lake_Superior A stunning place! Gorgeous setting (which we will have to explore properly when we live here); fabulous collection of the work of Canadian artists; an exhibition of industrial images and portraits by Yousuf Karsh, one of the most important portrait photographers of the twentieth century; and ‘Challenging Traditions: contemporary first nations art of the northwest coast’, a temporary exhibition which opened yesterday.

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