{"id":1001,"date":"2013-06-23T15:31:12","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T19:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/?page_id=1001"},"modified":"2014-02-09T20:12:48","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T01:12:48","slug":"cobb-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/?page_id=1001","title":{"rendered":"Cobb Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a title=\"Cobb Island Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.georgianbayphotographs.ca\/Galleries\/cobb_island\/cobb_island.html\">Cobb Island Gallery<\/a> is a collection of images from stay there in late August 2012. \u00a0By some standards the weather was perfect, 30C heat, low winds. \u00a0After a few days of that, it actually gets a little stressful, as the shallow water quickly heats up. \u00a0Soon there is no escape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgianbayphotographs.ca\/Galleries\/cobb_island\/cobb_island.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1003\" title=\"Caution Rocks Ahead\" src=\"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/GBay_Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0336.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"787\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/GBay_Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0336.jpg 787w, http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/GBay_Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/IMG_0336-300x224.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0In my search for a new cottage property I stumbled upon the concept of Crown Land as a camping area. \u00a0I&#8217;ve heard the term, but never really connected the dots. \u00a0You can identify which is which on a <a title=\"Crown Land Use\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lio.ontario.ca\/imf-ows\/imf.jsp?site=clupa_en\" target=\"_blank\">this government website<\/a> or <a title=\"MNR MApping\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lio.ontario.ca\/imf-ows\/imf.jsp?site=makeamap_en\" target=\"_blank\">this government website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The general rules for crown land camping can be found <a title=\"The Rules\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mnr.gov.on.ca\/en\/Business\/CrownLand\/2ColumnSubPage\/STEL02_170045.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Generally no parcel information means crown land. \u00a0There are some areas along the shores of Georgian Bay that have been designated conservation areas. \u00a0What that means for usage varies from area to area, so additional research is required. \u00a0Many of the conservation areas up north are designated so as to prevent further development.<\/p>\n<p>In the south, a conservation area is a day use only park like environment, with roads, parking lots, cut grass, and more. \u00a0Very civilized.<\/p>\n<p>The area I camped in is localized to Cobb Island, which is north west of Sandy Island in the Parry Sound area. \u00a0By what lucky roll of the dice this area was not bought up, down to the last square foot is a mystery. \u00a0It might have something to do with the shallow waters in that area. \u00a0Some of the local cottagers and fisher men have the routes figured out, and can be seen boat along as they&#8217;re late for dinner. \u00a0Me, going very slowly, nearly ran the boat onto a few shoals. \u00a0Even kayaking, I managed to get hung up a couple of times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cobb Island Gallery is a collection of images from stay there in late August 2012. \u00a0By some standards the weather was perfect, 30C heat, low winds. \u00a0After a few days of that, it actually gets a little stressful, as &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/?page_id=1001\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":589,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1232,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1001\/revisions\/1232"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/georgianbayphotographs.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}