{"id":21,"date":"2015-07-01T13:52:48","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=21"},"modified":"2015-07-01T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T13:52:48","slug":"cape-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/?p=21","title":{"rendered":"Cape Hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Honestly, our first day really didn’t go that well. Maybe it was because we all stayed up after midnight to test the axiom that the only rule of vacation is that there are no rules. Maybe it was the cold realisation that home and creature comforts that didn’t include actual creatures was far away. Maybe it was the mosquito bites. In any case, none of us got along too well. Every attempt to do something other than sitting in the car with a book was met with sullen complaints about far\/hot\/boring it was. Yay, vacation.<\/p>\n

We did manage to agree to ride down to the shore for a swim. Of course the water at this time of year is freezing. I waded, but the polar bears rolled in the water for a bit before shrieking for the warmth of the grass.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Chi Chi Maun ferry to Manitoulin runs out of Tobermory (“Tub” to locals). The ferry, if you’ve never tried it, is a lot of fun. It’s quite luxurious, and the views of Georgian Bay are magnificent. No whales though, strangely. We had a reservation for 7 AM today, but the ferry requires cars to arrive an hour early. Rather than get up at 4 AM to break camp and drive to Tobermory from Cape, we elected to stay in Tobermory for the night.<\/span><\/p>\n

We drove north to Bruce Peninsula National Park, which was almost completely full up owing to the national holiday. My winsome ways and Clooneyesque smile won us one of the last two spots in the park from the intimidating lady at check in.<\/p>\n

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She also let us know that the Chi Chi Maun was busted and all 7 AM reservations cancelled. Sad face. They aren’t even sure when it will be fixed, so waiting isn’t really an option. Besides being disappointing, it also seriously impacts our schedule. After some debate, we’ve decided to drive around Georgian Bay to Sudbury and Science North.<\/p>\n

With a long drive ahead, we made it an early night. Dinner was campfire hot dogs, Kraft dinner with Kimchee No Moto, and fresh strawberries. We enjoyed our campfire as best we could in the light drizzle and swirling mosquitoes. Short Pants literally slept in his bug jacket. The wilderness is not for everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Honestly, our first day really didn’t go that well. Maybe it was because we all stayed up after midnight to test the axiom that the only rule of vacation is that there are no rules. Maybe it was the cold realisation that home and creature comforts that didn’t include actual creatures was far away. Maybe … Continue reading Cape Hear<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions\/26"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thosejohnstonkids.ca\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}