Tobermory ON Ontario Canada
Frequently Asked Questions
By tender. Expedition ships anchor offshore and land passengers in the small harbour of Little Tub, at the very tip of the Bruce Peninsula.
Yes, the village takes about an hour on foot: a few hundred residents, two sheltered basins, wooden docks and fried fish counters. Save the rest of the day for the water and the trails.
Because Georgian Bay is cold and remarkably transparent: turquoise over the shallows, deep blue offshore, clear enough to make out the hulls of wrecks several metres down.
Yes. Glass-bottom boats pass over the best-preserved wrecks of Fathom Five National Marine Park, including the schooner Sweepstakes lying in a few metres of water in Big Tub harbour. Trips last about two hours.
Canada's first national marine park, protecting more than twenty wrecks of schooners and steamers lost to storms and reefs around Tobermory.
A small reserve 6.5 kilometres offshore, named for two limestone pillars carved by the waves, standing on the shore like giant flowerpots. Its trails lead to the columns, to caves and to a historic light station kept by volunteers.
A cave open to the water, whose inner pool glows blue in good weather. The coastal trails leading there cross a conifer forest clinging to limestone, where the Niagara Escarpment drops into the bay.
Yes, but the water stays cold even in summer. The bold go in, the rest take photographs. Bring walking shoes: the limestone shores are uneven and sometimes slippery.
It is a trail of nearly 900 kilometres running from the Niagara region to Tobermory. Hikers who complete it come to touch the village cairn the way one finishes a pilgrimage.
The Canadian dollar and English. Cards work in the shops and for excursions; French is not commonly spoken in this part of Ontario.
