Mark Ebden
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Cranberry Bog Trail
We did four trails, preferring the two waterfront trails over the two inland ones. The water is where it's at!
Collingwood Museum
Friendly, enthusiastic staff, in a great location. The building is clean and features pamphlets for local trails and sights.
I don't see why the museum included a piece called 'The Wreck of the Waubuno' (oil on plywood, 20th century). It's a heavily fictionalized account of something -- it's based loosely on a historical local event, sure, but with perhaps too much artistic licence to fit into a museum label (which might be why the museum label doesn't even begin to try to explain the licences taken in this artwork). The number of people on or leaving the fictional Waubuno (nearly 60) is more than twice the actual number (24). The artwork shows three other boats witnessing the wreck, whereas the last sighting of the real Waubuno was from a lighthouse. There's no precipitation, and a northeasternern wind, even though the wreck occurred during snowfall and a southwestern wind. The boat's beautiful railings, wooden sidings, roof and deck are presented without wear and tear, whereas the real Waubuno had faced well over a decade of cheap pleasure excursions in the Bay, with no replacement of its sidings; in fact, the aging vessel was in the last days of her final season before she was due to be replaced by a more modern boat. And so on.
This colourful art would surely show better in a local civic building or business seeking some 'pop' on their walls?
I don't see why the museum included a piece called 'The Wreck of the Waubuno' (oil on plywood, 20th century). It's a heavily fictionalized account of something -- it's based loosely on a historical local event, sure, but with perhaps too much artistic licence to fit into a museum label (which might be why the museum label doesn't even begin to try to explain the licences taken in this artwork). The number of people on or leaving the fictional Waubuno (nearly 60) is more than twice the actual number (24). The artwork shows three other boats witnessing the wreck, whereas the last sighting of the real Waubuno was from a lighthouse. There's no precipitation, and a northeasternern wind, even though the wreck occurred during snowfall and a southwestern wind. The boat's beautiful railings, wooden sidings, roof and deck are presented without wear and tear, whereas the real Waubuno had faced well over a decade of cheap pleasure excursions in the Bay, with no replacement of its sidings; in fact, the aging vessel was in the last days of her final season before she was due to be replaced by a more modern boat. And so on.
This colourful art would surely show better in a local civic building or business seeking some 'pop' on their walls?
Eggsmart
It’s fine. The fries were cold, and the skillet did not look like the picture in the menu – it had hard grates of cold cheddar cheese (you can see this in the bottom half of the picture), so I doubt the skillet had ever actually been put under the broiler. Even the skillet metal was room temperature. But we were in a hurry and the food was edible.