Sauble Beach, June 28

I swam briefly at Sauble Beach on the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario this morning. This is reputed to be one of Canada's great beaches, it stretches miles in a large bay. But I was unimpressed as a swimming venue as again it is very shallow and one must go far out to get deep enough water, at least where we were in the town of Sauble beach. Further there is pay parking all around the beach, basically they want $15 per day The water temp was 65 with air about 70 and no waves, certainly pleasant enough.

We also stopped by the beach at Grand Bend but did not swim. This certainly looked nicer although that may have been because the sun was out and the air was in the 80's when we got there. Observing the many people in the water, none actually swimming, it seems deeper faster. Again there is pay parking, although by the hour, but here is the only Canadian beach I observed on our trip with lifeguards. They were seated in groups on towers but still seemed fairly obnoxious by yelling at people who maybe got a little far out.