With 250,000 lakes and 100,000 kilometres of river, Ontario, Canada is a PWC rider’s fresh water dream! Check out my article about what Ontario has to offer.
This is an article I wrote about my North Channel (Lake Huron) tour for personalwatercraft.com (includes video + interview).
Where We Stayed & Ate: Sportsman’s Inn, Killarney
Where We Launched: Public Launch, Killarney
Fuel Stops: Killarney, Little Current
1,000 ISLANDS- Intrepid Sea-Doo Tour: 125-mile return ride on St. Lawrence River from Kingston, Ontario, Canada through the 1,000 Islands to Iroquois lock and back.
Where We Launched and Parked: Public Launch at King St E and West St., Kingston, beside Pumphouse Steam Museum.
Fuel Stops: Rockport, Brockville, Gananoque
ST. JOSEPH ISLAND- Intrepid Sea-Doo Tour: ride on Ontario’s North Channel (Lake Huron) from St. Joseph Island to Sault Ste. Marie, Canada and back.
Where We Stayed & Ate: Hilton Beach Inn, St. Joseph’s Island
Where We Launched & Parked: Hilton Beach Marina
Fuel Stops: Richard’s Landing, Sault Ste. Marie, Hilton Beach
MUSKOKA - Intrepid Sea-Doo Tour: Ride on the Muskoka Lakes from Gravenhurst, Ontario, Canada.
Where We Launched: Muskoka Wharf, Gravenhurst
Where We Ate: Turtle Jack’s, Port Carling
Fuel Stops: Rosseau, Gordon Bay, Walker’s Point, Gravenhurst
NORTH CHANNEL- Intrepid Sea-Doo Tour: 70-mile ride from Vance’s Resort in Spanish to Spragge, Ontario, Canada, and up the Spanish River to Massey.
Where We Stayed & Fuelled: Vance’s Resort, Spanish
Where We Launched: Almeara en el Rio, Spanish
Where We Ate: Dixie Lee Restaurant, Spanish
OTTAWA RIVER - Intrepid Sea-Doo Tour: 205-mile wilderness ride of Upper Ottawa River from Pembroke to Mattawa, Ontario, Canada and back.
Where We Stayed & Ate: Best Western, Pembroke
Where We Launched: Pembroke Marina
Fuel Stops: Pembroke, Rapides des Joachims, Mattawa (call ahead)
Lunch: Valois Motel, Mattawa
Transfer: Rapides des Joachims - Noel 613-586-2562
Club BRP - Montreal Excitement!
By Craig Nicholson - The Intrepid Cottager
The streets ran with pure yellow blood as BRP brought the world to Montreal, Canada this summer and I was part of it. This leading international powersports company pulled out all the stops to showcase its brands to over 4,000 of its dealers and distributors at its signature event, Club BRP Montreal. BRP even took over a closed-to-traffic Crescent Street and ran public party nights with live bands every night!
WOW, it was totally awesome – especially when the showroom and the Ultimate Playground demo site were opened for the public to see and try the latest BRP products. One night, BRP even treated all of us, plus 90 busloads of BRP employees from Valcourt – a crowd of about 10,000 – to a fabulous private concert with classic rockers “STYX”. Far, far out!
Best of all for Sea Doo enthusiasts, BRP launched its new T3 hull design and Ergolock setting on the new rock‘em-sock’em 2012 RXP-X 260, destined to be the best-looking performance champ of all time. I even got to meet Sam Spade, star of Sea-Doo’s new RXP-X 260 videos! Believe me, after riding this wave monster at the demo site, I agree with Sam that no PWC has ever handled, cornered or manoeuvred like this sleek baby!
You shoulda been there – it was a stupendous thrill. And as soon as I returned home, I celebrated with two back-to-back days of exceptional Sea-Doo watercraft riding. Steamy summer days, incredibly smooth waters, bright blue skies – humming STYX’s “Come Sail Away” –and exciting memories of Montreal playing in my head…it just doesn’t get any better than this! Talk to you next time.
