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Sea to Sky Gondola Ride – The Views From the Summit Are Breathtakingly Stunning

March 4, 2019 KeepCalmAndWander 0 Comments

It’s a blessing when you have a friend who knows how to drive. As someone who doesn’t know how to maneuver a vehicle, my movements are limited within the city of Vancouver and its neighboring areas that are accessible to public transport. Yesterday afternoon, a friend and I drove to

Travel Blog Hollyburn Lodge Hiking Trail in Winter

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Photos: The Hollyburn Lodge Hiking Trail in Winter

February 3, 2019 KeepCalmAndWander 0 Comments

I joined a short trip to Cypress Provincial Park yesterday. It’s just a 30-40 minute ride from downtown Vancouver – on a Saturday mid-morning. It was snowing when we arrived. It stopped for a while and snowed again. Coming from Toronto, that snow was nothing but a shower. 😉 Since

Flower Pots island Things to do in Bruce Peninsula

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Flowerpot Island – The Most Photographed Natural Wonder

September 4, 2013 KeepCalmAndWander 1 Comments

Flowerpot Island is a 10-minute ride from Tobermory via fast ferry. It is one of the Fathom Five National Marine Park around Bruce Peninsula. From the shipwrecks, if you are taking a tour, your ferry will take you to the Flowerpot Island where it will drop you off so you

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The Shipwrecks in Tobermory are Hauntingly Beautiful

September 3, 2013 KeepCalmAndWander 7 Comments

Beneath the vastness and calmness of Georgian Bay lies a variety of underwater creatures and twenty or more shipwrecks that were found, explored, preserved, and retold in history books. Two ships that sank 22 years apart found fame as one of Bruce Peninsula’s top tourist attractions: Sweepstakes and the City of

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Rock Climbing at The Grotto

September 1, 2013 KeepCalmAndWander 5 Comments

Back in the third world where I come from, a grotto is not synonymous to a cave or cove. It’s associated with a man-made, artificial cave-like concrete structure with a statue of the Virgin Mary in it, surrounded by tiny statuettes of children and angels venerating the immaculate woman. There’s