2021 walks

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 ...

Hopefully 2021 will be a better year than 2020. This week started out warm with some nice sunny days. In prior years there has been ...

Another unseasonably warm week along Wasaga Beach. The upside is the the snow has melted and it’s easier to walk along the sand than snowmobile ...

We’re starting to return to more seasonal weather this week. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but we need a couple of weeks of very ...

After heavy snow on the weekend, we’re starting to finally get colder temperatures. The shoreline is slowly starting to freeze despite steady winds from the ...

Some weeks in the winter are evening better than mid-summer and this was one of those weeks! Perfect winter weather – cold and sunny!  

Even with nights getting as low as -20C and temperatures below freezing all week, South Georgian Bay still refuses to freeze.

More seasonable temperatures this week with some beautiful days.  Small amounts of snow overnight almost every day. A stream behind the Recplex always catches my ...

This week was a little warmer, and the ice conditions have become excellent for walking down the beach. Finally the snowmobile trails are firm enough ...

I’m not sure whether March came in like a lamb or a lion. It was certainly cold enough overnight with blowing snow (-12C). It was warming ...

Most days this week I walked down the beach twice. The evening pictures are taken from the west end of the beach between 50th and ...

This week we watched the shore ice slowly disappear. This was a gentle winter compared to years passed. We rarely say the bay fully frozen ...

We had an unseasonable warm spell in late March – summer weather! March is definitely going out like a lamb this year. The highlight of my ...

Unfortunately there isn’t a lot to see this time of year. The bay is completely free of ice, but there is hardly anyone is on ...

A return to summer weather this week. Temperatures in the high twenties. This is insane for early April!  

The rule of thumb around here is not to plant flowers until May 1st. This year the season is way early. There is still the ...

This week we moved our son out of his college residence at Georgian College. The beach is even quieter than usual with another COVID-related lockdown ...

The problem with April is that it seems to last forever. We just get a taste of spring, and then it is back to cold ...

The problem with relying on open source weather data is that occasionally stations are down. Rather than make up the temperatures, I’ve decided to acknowledge ...

A perfect week for enjoying the beach – there is nothing better than cool overnight temperatures and daily highs in the teens. It’s still pretty ...

This week was the lead up to the Victoria Day weekend, aka “the May 2-4”. Victoria Day marks the unofficial start of summer.

We dipped below freezing this week – rare for the end of May. Thankfully our plants were OK, but some of our neighbors had frost ...

The highlight of my week was exploring a bike trail with my Dad between Stayner and Collingwood. Lots of fun. We learned that the ~ ...

Sweltering hot temperatures this week for June! We can’t complain about the weather this year other than that we could use more rain.  

A glorious week! The big news in our family was the formal graduation of our oldest son Ben from Law school. Congratulations! Seven years of ...

Getting the weather data that I put at the top of each post is an ongoing challenge. Most commercial sites require that you may for ...

Happy Canada Day! The beach is slowly coming back to life as more people get vaccinated. Things were shockingly quiet over the Canada Day weekend ...

We got a break from the heat this week with a few rainy days back to back late in the week. So far it’s hard ...

It looks as though we’re headed for a rainy weekend. I guess we shouldn’t be complaining. Better this than the hot weather our friends in ...

Getting accurate weather data (without paying for it) is challenging. I generally use Weather Underground as a source of crowd sourced weather data, but unfortunately ...

Another great week at the beach. Things are buzzing with activity in July. It’s great to see the crowds returning and so many people out ...

It’s hard to complain about the weather this year. Warm days and cool nights. We’ve had two months of awesome weather. We get continual warnings ...

This is probably the hottest week of the summer so far with daily highs over 30C. Thankfully the evenings cooled down by the end of ...

Another awesome week. Warm days and cool nights. Hard to beat August 2021 around here. Sunday, August 15th – this pictures taken Sunday morning at around ...

Despite the warm weather summer is coming to and end. It’s hard to keep falling leaves out of the tree in our backyard. Pics from ...

Another awesome week. This was an excellent week for kite sailors with steady west winds. Beach 6 is a favorite spot for kite sailors under ...

It’s sad to see summer come to a close, but I confess it is also nice to have the beach back to myself. I couldn’t ...

The crowds are disappearing from Wasaga Beach. Despite excellent weather, the beach has been quiet since labor day. Monday, September 13th, 2021 – This picture taken ...

An awesome September week. This week culminated with another car rally at Wasaga Beach. Sunday, Sept 19th, 2021 – The Northwest winds can be fierce ...

Today was a memorable day. My younger son Jamie turned 20 years old. We had a wonderful celebration for Jamie. His grandmother flew in ...

The highlight of this week was the Hootenany at the Wasaga Beach Recplex on October 9th – https://calendar.wasagabeach.com/community/Detail/2021-10-09-1200-Hootenanny Monday, October 4th, 2021 – The sand ...

Above seasonable temperatures this week. Walking down the beach felt like the middle of summer. Especially on Monday where we hit a high of 26 ...

Walking down the beach was a little depressing this week. I kept coming across dead birds along the shore with no explanation. Apparently this has ...

This week we had new construction along the boardwalk. We also had a brave long distance swimmer out on Georgian Bay on the day before ...

This week kicked off with Halloween falling on a Sunday. We had this “Amityville Horror” thing going on at our place for trick-or-treaters so I ...

This is the week that we lost all of our leaves. The maples in our front yard are gorgeous this time of year. I also ...

Warm temperatures for November. Apparently the water temperature on Georgian Bay is at a record high this year. It may be a while before the ...

November is definitely a month in transition. This week temperatures ranged from -7 to +7 and we saw just about every kind of weather. Monday, November ...

Sometimes all the best pictures happen on the same day, and Saturday December 4th was on of those rare days. I took two separate walks ...

We had lots of snow this week. Temperatures ranged from -9C to 17C! It’s fun walking down the beach when every day is different. Sunday, December ...

We had extreme winds this week with many trees down. The winds were at their peak on December 16th when a warm front came through. ...

We had exceptionally strong winds again this week. On December 22nd there were sustained winds of 56.3 km/h according to a local weather station at ...

We’ve had an exceptionally mild Christmas holiday. Kind of nice for people traveling for the holidays. We were fortunate to get our entire family together ...

As summer comes to a close we’ve enjoyed perfect weather. Daytime highs in the low 30s and overnight lows in the low teens. Perfect for ...