Mairlyn's Photos - Jjly 10 2026 - Summer Time Retreat
Summer time attracts the idea of getting away from it all. Maybe in the woods or on a lake. We have a lot of woods and lakes in Northern Ontario.
There are all sorts of summer retreats these days - yoga, religious, nature, wellness, kayaking, sports, and even axe throwing, if you go to Long Point Eco-Adventures.
The idea of a retreat has been with us since we lived in cities. Doesn't Lake Como, Italy pop up - the world's best hotel, an 18th century villa. The alternatives today, though, range to some strange options. Maybe it is Mexico's Secrets Akumal Riviera Maya, supposedly the #1 all-inclusive resort in the world. Or one could explore strange and unusual destinations such as these: sleep encased in salt at Palacio del Sal in Bolivia, inside an old Boeing fuselage in Costa Rica, or float underwater at the Manta Resort. Bizarre is what we've come to expect when it comes to retreat sleeping.
I was thinking more of the northern Ontario landscape of trees and lakes. Surprise! Bizarre exists there too - near Parry Sound you can sleep in a transparent geodesic dome in old growth trees, or in Gravenhurst you can sleep in a fully converted 1979 Ontario Northland Railway caboose, or go glammping at the Sunnd Eco Resort near Sault Ste. Marie. The choices are many.
Here's one that is close by and is strange indeed. We can go to the Screaming Heads sculptures in the Almaguin Highlands at Midlothian Castle at Burk's Falls. There are more than 100 very huge sculptures on the landscape all screaming in some way. It certainly is something to see, but I wonder if it would be a retreat to go to or a retreat to run from. It makes me think of the Burning Man Festival, Canadian style, as it has a harvest festival each year.
On the simple side of things, we could stay in Grimsby and head over to this residence's cute bench on the edge of the woods. There's a retreat everywhere if we think about it.
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