This morning was a hot one. My sister and her boyfriend drove up from Toronto to see us. Thankfully they brought lots of ice-cold bottled water. We showed them around our little home in the wild. The kitchen, the dining room, two bedrooms, laundry room, the family room and of course the en suite bathrooms. They must’ve thought we’d been out in the woods too long.

On the way in to town, we stopped at a laundromat. For around $10 they washed and dried up to 10 pounds (about 5kg) of clothes and bedding. This was a real help given the size of our group. It means that we can get away with packing a little bit less clothing and still have something fresh to wear every day. The place we went (Baywash Laundromat) is in a little plaza with a Chinese restaurant called Canton Buffet. We ended up having dinner there on the way back.

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Wasaga Beach area 1 was a little less packed than the weekend, but it was still full. We found parking for $10 right on Main Street. The municipal lots in that area charge $4/hour and there are meters available as well. The washrooms next to the lot aren’t bad as far as beaches go, but they’re not too great for changing in. We loaded up all the gear from the van and found a nice spot by the water. If the first day we spent on the beach was about sand, then today was about the surf. We played some keep-away, took the inflatable boats out and walked almost all the way out to the markers. Wasaga Beach is a great place to take kids because the water is so shallow for so long that the rule is they can’t go too far, not they can’t go too deep. This also means that you don’t get a lot of fast boats or sea-doos really close to the beach. They’re out there for sure, but the marker buoys (the orange balls you see floating way off in the photos) are far enough out that you can swim without being disturbed by the noise.

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