Wasaga Beach: The World's Longest Freshwater Beach.

Wasaga beach is billed as the world's longest freshwater beach and that's not surprising. The Great Lakes are the largest bodies of freshwater in the world so there can't be too many larger freshwater beaches elsewhere.

The beach is over seven miles long, something like 7 Mile Beach in Grand Cayman, so long it's divided up into sections A to F and each section has its own parking and concessions. They need them. Once school is out the beach is wall-to-wall people, particularly young people who are there for FUN! If excitement and energy are what you like, this is the place in the summer.

Getting to Wasaga is fairly straightforward, it's pretty well due north from Toronto off Highway 400, then County Road 92 or Highway 26. It's an hour and a half to two hours drive, if there's no traffic. Here's their official website Wasaga Beach

Metal detecting on the beach after everyone has gone home

Modern beachcombers use metal detectors. The days of wandering the sand and picking up only what you see are long gone. It's what's under the sand that's most likely to be valuable, I guess.

The town is part of the Georgian Triangle, along with of Meaford, Thornbury, and Collingwood. The towns coordinate their activities to support each other by arranging fewer competing events, and that, in turn, helps visitors because they get to enjoy more of what's on by missing less.

Like all resort towns, Wasaga has a much smaller population in winter than summer, around 15,000 people, which makes it a nice size for retiring too and it, and the surrounding area, have become popular spots for retirees in recent years. There are a number of modern secluded enclaves among the trees on the edge of town catering to well-to-do Torontonians who've opted for a more relaxed lifestyle while maintaining some of the energy the summer influx of visitors bring.

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