Things to Do in Port Perry, Ontario, Port Perry, Ontario

Where else can you go from being in downtown Toronto, Canada, amongst the hustle and bustle surrounded by the concrete jungle one minute? Then an hour later, you’re sitting in the middle of a frozen lake with friends, ice fishing, drinking beer and eating apple fritters the size of your head. Port Perry, Ontario, is that place, so aside from ice fishing trips, I created a list of things to do in Port Perry on a Toronto day trip!

On a good day, it takes an hour to get from one end of Toronto to the other end of Toronto – North, South, East, West; it makes no difference one hour at least.

So when York Durham Headwaters invited a group of travel writers and myself ice fishing my initial thoughts were: “I’m going to make history as the first Afro-Canadian male to go ice fishing!” – and I’m going to make the hashtag #blackice go viral.

Then I started thinking: “Ice fishing? How far north will I have to go? North Bay? Thunder Bay? Hudson’s Bay? Nunavut?” and “Where are my snow pants?”  ...... (follow the instructions below for accessing the rest of this article).