Georgian Bay Travel News Updates April 2010

New Georgian Bay Website features Information for Yachting and Boating
Ontario based web marketing company, announces the launch of their new comprehensive Georgian Bay Region yacht directory web site. Boating Georgian Bay (http://www.BoatingGeorgianBay.com) will be a one stop resource for all things Georgian Bay and contain invaluable information, tips, reviews and guides for Georgian Bay area boaters and for visiting yachtsman from around the world.
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Fly Fish the Bighead River: May 14-16
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Located 2 hours from Toronto in Walter's Falls between Meaford and Owen Sound in the Georgian Highlands, the Falls Inn opened in 2005 and is a member of Ontario's Finest Inns that is ideally located to access many of Ontario's premier ...
Discover Fly Fishing at WILSON'S
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Searchers Needed to find Spotted Turtle
Wye Marsh, Ontario's leading wetland education centre is looking for volunteers to find the elusive and endangered Spotted Turtle once common in the Fens of the Wye Valley .......an important Georgian Bay wetland......
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Ontario's North Channel – A Boater's Paradise - Boating, Northern ...
. Northern Ontario is big. Towering old growth forest,
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Parry Sound included in 10 Best Places to Kayak--Adventure Kayak
As the closest town to Georgian Bay's 30,000 islands and the municipal hub of the Georgian Bay UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, Parry Sound is the launch point for some of the best sea kayaking to be found between Portland East and Portand West (see 3, above). Plans are afoot to build a coastal hiking trail in the style of B.C.'s West Coast Trail, but why wait when you can see it all now by kayak.

Ontario Travel to meet Midland Mural Artists in Historic Downtown Midland

North America's Largest Outdoor Mural

Midland, Ontario………………August 2008. As one of the top 100 places to see in Ontario. Downtown Midland http://www.downtownmidland.ca/ should be on every visitors and residents travel list. Midland hosts North America’s largest outdoor mural and was recently listed in the Ron Brown first edition of Top 100 Unusual Things to see in Ontario released September 17^th 2007, Boston Mills Press. Brown labels the murals as a "Giant Outdoor Art Gallery". The murals depicting a scene from the Jesuits meeting Huron aboriginals for the first time is the largest outdoor historic mural in North America. Ron Brown is a Canadian travel writer and broadcaster who is the author of several books on unusual features to see throughout Ontario. His latest titles include Downtown Ontario; Unusual Main Streets to Explore, and Top One Hundred Unusual Things to See in Ontario. Toronto-based Brown also regularly contributes to CBC Radio broadcasts.

For the summer of 2008 our murals are continuing to be restored by 3 local artists with the financial aid of the Ontario Trillium Foundation. Ruth Hurdle is recreating the Rotary Mural which was originally on the LCBO building. This mural will be relocated on the side of T & G Fabrics. Terri-Lee Milley will be recreating the S.S. Lemoyne mural which will be painted on location on the side of Homecoming beside St. Paul’s United Church. Sonja Rathke has been restoring all the murals located at the Town of Midland’s Harbour Master’s office at the bottom of King Street this summer. Please feel free to speak with them about their experiences.

Midland Ontario is 90 minutes north of the Greater Toronto Area, and 35 minutes North West of Barrie. Situated on the shores of Georgian Bay in historic Huronia, the Midland area is one of Ontario’s earliest developed settlements dating back to the early 1600’s and Samuel de Champlain.

WHERE TO STAY IN THE AREA: Hotels, Resorts and Historic Inns are available. See Midland Area Accommodation. http://www.georgianbaytourism.on.ca/S/HotelsResorts.aspx

WHAT TO DO IN THE AREA. Exciting historical re-enactments and attractions, fresh clean beaches complement First Nations history, Georgian Bay Cruises and Great Lakes British Navel history and the towering Martyrs’ Shrine. http://www.georgianbaytourism.on.ca/S/Attractions.aspx

TOURIST INFORMATION: FREE full colour guidebook available by calling 1800-263-7745, or view Georgian Bay Visitor Guide on-line http://www.southerngeorgianbay.on.ca/tourism/index.html.

For additional information on Downtown Midland and the Midland Mural Project contact Meredith Forrest at 705.527.7246

Georgian Bay News-- Photography of the Pre-Cambrian Shield

Georgian Bay was in the news this past weekend as the result of John Bartosik and his Georgian Bay photography.
“His winning entry is a new body of work in progress; a series of fine art photography titled Rock of Ages, depicting the pre-Cambrian shield in the Georgian Bay area with interpretive form.” See more on John Bartosik.

See Photos from Rock of the Ages.

Congratulations John. See information on Georgian Bay at Georgian Bay Eco Museum.