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By imras
October 19th 2008

The Adventure Begins!

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loading onto the truck

Gust O'Wind is loaded onto an Andrews truck and is on her way to Deltaville Virginia. October 14th 2008 [View Full Entry]

By JayesJaunts
July 3rd 2008

1st July 2008

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Richard leaving his house

1st July 2008 Had a leisurely start this morning. Richard had to do a final clean and tidy up of the house he has been living in for the last year. We helped to clean his house and say goodbye to his neighbours. Then we left Wasaga Beach to travel to Owen Sound for lunch. We went to Harrison Park in Owen Sound. It is a delightful park set in a vally with river Sydenham flowing through. It was built by a Mr Harrison a local saw mill owner who had emigrated to Canada from Staffordshire and become a successful mill [View Full Entry]

By JayesJaunts
July 3rd 2008

2nd July 2008

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Leaving Tobermory

2nd July 2008 Up early this morning to catch the 9am boat from Tobermory to Flowerpot Island on the glass bottom Blue Heron boat. Amy and I had already done exercises on the deck as the sun came up. After egg bread for breakfast we set off and caught the boat despite Amy's delaying tactics. The boat goes out of the small harbour and into the big harbour where there are two sunken wrecks, which you can see through the glass, bottomed boat. These lakes are so large that you cannot see the other side, and they look like a sea [View Full Entry]

By Stephanie and Andras
June 1st 2007

Row, Row, Row the Boat...

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Cove Island Lighthouse
As seen from the deck of the ferry. The lighthouse was constructed in 1855.

We awake to the sounds of birds signaling the early morning, allowing us to get an early 5am start. We’re slowly starting to get used to the idea of planning our days around the sun - awake at sunrise, asleep at sunset. In order to catch the 8am ferry out of Tobermory to South Baymouth, we rush around the campsite folding blankets, and stuffing firewood into the nooks and crannies of the trunk until we’re ready to go, right on time, early even, at 6:30am. We’re quite proud of our ability to stay organized and to have made such an early [View Full Entry]

By Stephanie and Andras
May 31st 2007

On the Orchid Trail

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Yellow-Lady Slipper Orchids

This very well could be the end of the earth. What was expected to be a four hour drive took nearly seven and by the time we arrived at Bruce Peninsula National Park we weren’t thinking about the geologic significance, the new ecological zone we’d entered or about how we were going to set up for our first night camping. All we were concerned with was standing up. It’s not that the drive along Ontario’s Niagara Escarpment wasn’t scenic, it was just so long and speed limits in Canada are relatively slow compared with what we drive in the states (80km/hr [View Full Entry]

By From Canada to Taiwan
March 31st 2007

Preparations 2

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The epilogue to my five years spent in Ottawa was busy, as one would expect. In addition to the various preparatory activities that I mentioned in my previous entry, I obtained a 60 day travel Visa from the Taiwanese economic exchange in downtown Ottawa, and received an international driver's license from a local CAA store. After spending $36 to obtain four passport photos, it dawned upon me that there must be a cheaper alternative for photo identification. This alternative was Walmart. The spendthrift in me cried after realizing that these four photos could have been obtained, with the ai [View Full Entry]

By Ben K
August 28th 2005

On th Road!!!!!!

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Georgian Bay
thats me on some rocks

Getting to Toronto I had mixed feelings. It was great to finally be by myself and independent but then again I was upset that I was away from family, whom I had such a great time with in the U.S of A. I also, for the first time since being away started to really miss everyone back in OZ. I guess being alone and knowing nobady really puts things in perspective. But it was a challenge I had to face head on...........and it was tough initially! Trying to sette down and find a place to live in was a pain............until now [View Full Entry]

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