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Day 3 (October 5, 2025): Port Severn, Macey's Bay, Honey Harbour, Victoria Harbour, and Midland

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After breakfast at the hotel, we set out just after 9AM to take in as much of Georgian Bay as we could before joining the throngs heading back to Toronto after the weekend, in order to get our 5:35PM Westjet flight home.  We took in sights of Georgian Bay with its many islands and visited several small communities. We ended our touring at a very impressive and moving site that commemorates eight Canadian martyrs, who died for their faith in 1649. Our flight left Pearson and arrived in Halifax on time, and by 9:45PM we were back home, a wonderful 56-hour trip behind us. The Best Western Plus Mariposa Hotel in Orillia provided a good base for our tour. Port Severn Views of Georgian Bay from Macey's Bay There are 30,000 islands in total in the 15,000 square kilometre Georgian Bay, making it the largest freshwater archipelago in the world. The Bay is actually part of Lake Huron.  If it were a lake in its own right, it would be Canada's fourth largest lake.   Honey Harbou...
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Day 2 (October 4, 2025): Orillia, Wasaga Beach, and the 175th Orillia Fall Fair

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What to do with two days near Georgian Bay?  The choices seemed endless!  But we eventually narrowed it down to a plan that included:  seeing Orillia, including its well-known fall fair; exploring the famous beach-scene on Georgian Bay;  and, beyond the beaches, getting a sense of the coastal Georgian Bay scenery with its thousands of tiny islands. That was the overall framework for the weekend.   After breakfast at the hotel, we set out at 9:30AM to take in downtown Orillia's farmers' market and other sights along Couchiching Lake.  Then, it was overland to one of Ontario's most famous beach towns:  Wasaga Beach.  We ended the day by spending a few hours at Orillia's Fall Fair, where the tractor pull was a new experience for us and a major highlight. Downtown Orillia In downtown Orillia, the traffic light poles were nicely decorated in corn stalks. The former Orillia town hall is now the home of the Orillia Opera House.  Nothing is play...
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