Manitoulin Island, Ontario fishing, hunting, camping

Georgian Bay Area

Manitoulin Island, Ontario.

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I always travel somewhere, but never really together with my mother and father. Except when I was a kid-teenager, some smaller trips, and the vacation to Czech Republic in 1990. Knowing that my parents like to travel just like me, (they had traveled all over Canada and United States, always driving), I invited them to join me on fishing trip around Georgian Bay. My parents, whenever they had some free time, traveled up Northern Ontario and always came back with some fish. Me, I�m not a fisherman, so I thought maybe they can show me how it�s done. We packed my old Glendale motor home and left Barrie. Reaching Tobermory, Ontario we had camped overnight and next morning boarded the Chi-Cheemaun Ferry, (Ojibwa for "Big Canoe,") for a memorable sail across one of the Great Lakes, Lake Huron, to Manitoulin Island, which is world's largest freshwater lake island. We had stayed at small campground nestled among large maple trees called Mindemoya Court with nice views over the lake. There we found some info about the island. Manitoulin means spirit "island" in the Ojibwe language.

The island was a sacred place for the native Anishinaabe people who were Ojibwe, Odawa and Potawatomi. Each year on the August long weekend, the island hosts the Haweater Festival. The festival is a large tourist draw and includes parades, firework shows, craft shows, and rural competitions such as horse pulls. After fishing for couple of days and not getting any fish, I was told the water was to rough, we left the campground to see some of the sites, and went north on the island thru Little Current swing bridge, then east to Sudbury and south to another campground I had been to before, on Magnetawan river near Britt. Again we tried some fishing for few days, with no luck. But we had seen other people getting some nice sized fish. Only comment from my father was, "that fishing up North in Ontario is much better", we had left there, back on Trans continental highway, going south, back home to Barrie. No need to say, I still don�t know how to fish.

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Waiting for the ferry at Tobermory. Book it ahead.

On the Chi-Cheemaun Ferry and the view of Lake Huron.

Mindemoya Court Campground at Manitoulin Island.

Fishing at Mindemoya Court Campground.
Manitoulin Island, Bridal Veil Falls.

Manitoulin Island, Bridal Veil Falls. That's me at the bottom.
French River, Ontario. Beautiful country.

My mother and father at campground, Britt, Ontario.

Getting ready to go fishing.

That's the only fish. My mother got it. Tough little sucker, it's attacking my father.

Since we didn't get any fish it's time to go home, nothing left to eat.

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