A bit of background:

Personal experience makes "George’s Georgian Bay" a practical and handy travel guide to the area around Georgian Bay. There, you can enjoy yourself in many, many ways.

Author George Czerny is a long-time resident of the Collingwood area, now living near the southern shore of Georgian Bay at Craigleith, which is a small village just west of Collingwood, Ontario.

Georgian Bay, on the east side of Lake Huron, is approximately 121 miles (193 km.) long, 55 miles (88 km.) wide and has a maximum depth of 540 feet (165 metres). Lake Huron is one of the five Great Lakes bisected by the border that runs between Canada and the United States of America.

Enjoy "George’s Georgian Bay" to familiarize yourself with various aspects of the Georgian Bay region. Use this book’s references to contact chambers of commerce and tourist information organizations ahead of time. They know their respective areas better than anybody else and are happy to help you.

There are also many excellent books which focus on Georgian Bay addressing such topics as boating, lighthouses, railways, bicycling, kayaking, canoeing, as well as the history of Georgian Bay. A list of some of those books appears in "George’s Georgian Bay".

We do not claim that this book offers everything there is to know about Georgian Bay. Nobody can do that! But "George’s Georgian Bay" offers its readers an excellent start, linking them with sources of further information. If there is something that you think should be in the book, related to travelling around Georgian Bay, please contact George.

George provides personal viewpoints about various places and things, including where to eat and where to stay. His suggestions are based on personal experience, or information that is believed to be reliable. If there is more about one place than another, as you read this book, expect us to balance that in future editions of "George’s Georgian Bay" as we add new information and update existing information.

This book, with its text and photographs, is a starting point for your experiences around Georgian Bay. You will find only some colour photographs on the back cover of the book, but many more photographs – to whet your appetite for exploring parts, or all, of Georgian Bay – on this website.

Once you have been to any part of Georgian Bay, George thinks you will want to return again and again and explore it more and more. Each season offers a different type of adventure.

You can be the Georgian Bay area’s next explorer. Go and enjoy!