Lake Ontario, ON

My Watermark is Lake Ontario.

I can go to any beach, which I have, I live in Newcastle and we have a beach on Lake Ontario. Every week you can go down there and just find garbage all over. One of my friends that I met down there, he goes down and he collects all the wood that’s floated in from the lake. He ended up with 47 trailer loads of wood, he never had to buy a stick of wood for his fireplace that winter. And he does it every year. Not only is he helping himself, but he is actually helping the environment. What comes in can also be washed out. I’ve seen that happen, where you as a boater don’t see the submerged log in the water. We clean up people’s garbage and we take it and there is a huge dumpster there at the Newcastle Beach. We try and pick up as much litter as we can.

One of the nicest beaches in terms of swimming and having fun on the beach is out in Cobourg. The Cobourg beach, if you’ve never been there, you would swear you were in Hawaii. There is a large wharf, that you can walk out on. My daughter and her friends go to the end and they dive from the wharf itself. You don’t have to go to Hawaii to find the perfect beach.