I just got back from having a super adventure this past weekend. I went way up to a place called Tobermory with a scuba diving club that I'm part of here in Toronto. Tobermory is way up on a penninsula with lots of islands up there and if ships want to go from Georgian Bay to Lake Huron or back and forth they have to go through the islands. This means that lots and lots and lots of ships have had HUGE shipwrecks there and so it's called a ship graveyard!!
It's a tiny town and the whole town is all about diving. The boats in the harbor have dive flags and the shops are all about diving and it's super neat because I love diving and so it's great. We carpooled up and stopped along the way to grab sandwiches and have a picnic under trees. When I got there I got to go camping in a campground that had a pond where there were lots of frogs and so I called it Frog Pond. I got all set for diving. You have to wear lots and lots of stuff because the water up here is SO cold. I even had to wear a hood and gloves!
The dives are really neat because they're almost all on ships. One, called the Niagara II is a GIGANTIC ship that is all made of steel and there is a Canadian Flag still on its bow and there are lots of decks and places to explore including the captain's deck where I used the steering wheel but even when I turned it the boat didn't move because it's already sunk. The water at it was 41 degrees!! Even peeing my pants only warmed me up for a few seconds down there. Another one was the James C. King which landed on a cliff and so starts up at 25 feet but ends at 90 feet under water! It's a wooden ship and has been under there over a hundred years which is near to FOREVER!! It was like a rack of ribs but they'd be too big to eat these ribs and not very tasty.
At another ship I found an anchor bigger than me and I played treasure hunter and followed the anchor chain and found a pile of chain bigger than me!! I also made friends with a family of bass. They followed me throughout the whole dive and came within four inches of my hand.
While I didn't find any pirate gold or treasure I still got to play at being a pirate treasure hunter. Thankfully no ghosts bothered me while swimming but some of it was a little spooky (especially when the sun went away and it was darker but I still had a wonderful time!! And I got to roast marshmellows at the fire and there was The Sweet Shop in town were I had ice cream and chocolate and they had so much candy that it was hard to choose. I want to go back to explore more ships wrecks and try more of the candy!!
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