2020 walks

The weather was very mild for January. What is striking in these pictures is the enormous damage from high waters. Fall storms have resulted in ...

We’re back to more seasonal temperatures, but still too warm for January. Friday January 17th was a gem!

Finally some cold nights. The bay froze over as far as we could see. Still, 2020 looks like a mild winter. I wouldn’t be walking ...

January 2020 has been warm. Lots of days above freezing. This makes walking down the beach challenging as I need to deal with water, slush, ...

This week, the ice conditions were such that narrow strip of ice along the shore turned into an almost perfect skating rink! Just the right ...

This is one of the warmer February’s I can remember. Strange to see so many days above freezing. Nottawasaga Bay should be frozen solid by ...

We’re seeing more typical winter weather, but still warmer than usual.

Lots of storm activity this week. This is typical when the weather is above seasonal. Warmer than usual air translates into lots of snow!

Lots of snow over the past week. With highly daily temperatures, much of the new snow was gone by late in the week however.

This has been another week of unusually warm weather as you can see from the temperatures above. Also, This is the first week that the ...

This is the week that the ice came off of South Georgian Bay.  March 20th is exceptionally early to lose the ice. 2020 is definitely ...

A few online friends commented that this week had it all. I saw a stand-up paddle boarder, a jogger, and a snowmobiler enjoying the last ...

Although schools were closed due to COVID-19 earlier in March, this felt like the first week that COVID-19 restrictions really came into force. The beach ...

The beach continues to be closed. I haven’t been walking along the beach, but I’ve been walking into deserted beach entrances to snap pictures.

These pictures illustrate why some of my family and friends are wise to stay in Florida. Even when the snow is gone, spring seems to ...

This week there was a terrible shooting in Nova Scotia that gripped the nation.  My sister’s OPP detachment in Parry Sound posted a wonderful tribute ...

Most of my walks were boring this week as I followed bush trails and avoided the beach. The only beach pics I took were along ...

After all my complaints about how we never had a winter this year, we had a healthy dump of snow on May 7th – the ...

This week marked the transition to spring in my mind. Near the water it is always cold this time of year, but no jacket required ...

So the beach is still closed, but beach trails are open and this apparently includes the boardwalk along beach one. Lots of confusion – LOL!  

We had some beautiful summer weather this week, with daytime highs in the 30s. By the end of the week, things were cooling down nicely.  

Things are still quiet along the beach with many of the parking lots closed due to COVID-19 restrictions. Even on weekends, we seem to have ...

The beach officially re-opened effective June 11th, but we didn’t see a lot of visitors – perhaps because there was still confusion apart whether businesses ...

Things seem to be getting back to “almost normal” – by Saturday June 20th, the beach was packed. Part of the reason is that the ...

Perfect summer weather as we approach the Canada Day long weekend.

Wouldn’t you know it, but midway down beach one I spotted a CTV cameraman doing the same taking the same shot but looking east – ...

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020 – Taken from my usual stopping point at 13th street – Wasaga Beach in foreground, looking west across the bay to ...

The politics around beach closure have been a little complicated around here. Great news is that despite the confusion around municipal vs. provincial vs. private ...

It’s pretty much impossible to complain about weather during the  summer of 2020. We’ve had a wonderful summer. Perfect for swimming and enjoying the beach.      

We’re coming up on another long weekend. With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing, there is concern again about crowding in the various beach areas. Ontario seems to ...

It’s hard to beat the weather this summer at Wasaga Beach. July and August have been spectacular. We finally got a break from the heat ...

Weather data for the Wasaga Beach weather station was not available this week, so some of these temperatures are from the Clearview station (https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/ICLEAR8) a ...

This week we had an all-day rain event Sunday that is keeping the neighborhood grass nice and green (and the weeds growing). Despite the rain I ...

We needed to take a few detours to walk along the beach given water at record highs.

It was a treat to see Kite Sailors around Beach 2 this week on a Sunday evening. It wasn’t quite windy enough, but they gave ...

This was the Labor Day weekend and the beach was shockingly empty for the last weekend of summer. I supposed it must have been a ...

Despite the overnight lows still above freezing we had frost two mornings this week. I get my weather for this site from Weather Underground (an ...

  September rolls on and COVID numbers are sadly ticking up across the province. A pop-up car rally towards the end of this week didn’t make ...

The week started out with summer-like weather and dropped in the first few days of October. This time of year I usually have the beach ...

This week we got some steady west winds that reminded us how high the water is relative to previous years. It showed the wisdom of ...

One good day for kite sailing this week with brisk winds from the west, but for the most part things were pretty calm.    

Lots of opportunity to walk near both beach area 1 and beach area 6 this week. Starting to see lots of birds assembling to migrate ...

The red maple pictured here is in our front yard. We have eight similar sized trees and I’ve had my hands full picking up leaves. ...

This has been an exceptionally warm November with summer-like weather. Records shattered across Ontario this year.  

We gradually started to get back to more seasonable weather this week. It was time to break out the winter clothes this week.

One thing about Wasaga Beach is that the weather changes every day. I find myself look forward to colder temperatures. With the snow coming and ...

The featured picture for this week shows the high water-levels along the beach. It’s incredible how every day is different. Some days the beach are ...

This week I had a rare opportunity to walk down Wasaga Beach from 27th street (west of my normal entry point). This applies only to ...

This was an awesome week for walking down the beach. We had four back-to-back nights with temperatures below -10C and the water finally began to ...

The weather this week was above seasonal, but we avoided a green Christmas just in the nick of time with a significant snowfall that started ...

The lake effect snow warnings ended on Tuesday. I was hoping for colder temperatures, but unfortunately the forecast is warm. Warm weather means that the ...