Five Great Lakes Swim Adventure

Swimming in all Five Great Lakes in the same day Five Great Lakes – 2026 The Hotels and Breweries version. Note: The spots we are stopping have street addresses, GPS coordinates, and what3words.com links. 14 July 2026 Leave home, head for Simcoe, Ontario. Good stops I Intend to do on the way: (Three hours from GR) Lunch at Refined Fool Brewery in Sarnia. 1326 London Rd. In 2023 we found a great beer called Van Full of Weirdos. https://what3words.com/thudded.lame.streaks Seemed appropriate. (179 Miles from GR) Point Lands Park in Sarnia. 99 Seaway Rd. https://what3words.com/scales.shell.promise There’s a scale model of the Great Lakes. It looks much cooler on a satellite zoom in than it does in person. If you have a few minutes. Otherwise, skip it. (We stopped here in 2024. While kind of cool, it’s better to see on Google Maps than in person.) At 5PM, meet at the Blue Elephant Artisan Brewery 96 Norfolk St S, Simcoe, ON N3Y 2W2, Canada https://what3words.com/commercially.unless.triplet (122 miles) (The night before) Awesome place. Nice people. We can reserve a room there. Call 519 428 2886 and tell them how many people you have coming. Pretty cool place, decent food and beer. When we figure out how many of us there are, we’ll let them know. Stay in Simcoe for the night. We stayed at Travelodge but there are other possibilities too. About 15 minutes to Port Dover Beach. LAKE ERIE Port Dover Beach 2 Walker St, Port Dover, ON N0A 1N0 https://w3w.co/drone.rinks.respectively42.78326° N, 80.20304° W (9 miles) Plan to be there at 5am. You’ll start in the dark but use the green blinking light on the lighthouse to the left to sight. Then turn around and use one of the lights on the shore to the right. It’ll be light soon. Done swimming and on the road well before 7am. stop at Tim Horton for a bathroom break and breakfast on the way out of Port Dover (2 blocks from the swim site). Just over an hour to… LAKE ONTARIO Confederation Beach Park 580 Van Wagners Beach Rd, Hamilton, O