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Tour the Grotto
Forget about reserving parking to see the Grotto, book a private Boat Tour.
It is your private boat,
We can do what you want, for as long as you want!
Boat is priced for 8 passengers
The Grotto Boat Tour – Tobermory
Our Grotto boat tours in Tobermory offer a peaceful alternative to the busy hiking trails and parking areas at Bruce Peninsula National Park.
By viewing The Grotto and Cave Point from Georgian Bay, you’ll experience dramatic cliffs, turquoise water, and sea caves from a unique water-level perspective.
A Relaxed Private Tour
This is a private boat tour, ideal for:
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Couples and families
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Visitors with limited mobility
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First-time visitors to Tobermory
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Anyone wanting a calm, scenic experience
Routes may vary depending on weather and water conditions.
Book a Grotto Boat Tour in Tobermory
Private Grotto boat tours depart from Tobermory and explore the Bruce Peninsula shoreline from the water.
📍 Tobermory, Ontario
Book your private Grotto boat tour today.
The Grotto
A must see in Tobermory.
Access is limited due to parking restrictions at the Bruce Peninsula National Park.
It is always accessible by boat!
Cave Point
Cave Point is a beautiful massive cliff wall filled with crevices and caves. There are ancient cedars growing off the side of the cliff face and many of the nooks are filled with the nests of peregrine falcons. This can only be viewed from a boat.
Sensational Sunsets
Have an intimate evening aboard Tre Anni. While viewing the sites, you can watch the spectacular colours change along the cliffs of the Niagara Escarpment. The setting sun intensifies its glorious gleam and gilds the cliffs and clouds with the golden colours of another sensational sunset. Slowly the twilight deepens and lifts the veil that conceals the stars.
Along the horizon you will see the glow of the lighthouses and navigation stations.
Flowerpots
& Geological Formations
There is mysticism in the creation of these two monolithic maidens, or is it the maiden and the man? Wait for the Lore and the Legend to be revealed to you just before you see them up close and personal, face to face.
Private perfection.
Shipwrecks:
Legends & Lore
Come to hear the tales of ships lost long ago.
From the surface, in the shallows, we can witness wrecks, the ribs wrenched by wind and waves, while worried crews abandoned bilge pumps and their posts, to launch yawl boats to get to shelter on shore.
Some of the logs are lost, just scattered entries from points of registry. The fewer the facts known, the more room for embellishments of probable cause of loss, leaving room for entertaining tales.
Bird Watching
Tobermory is located at the tip of the Bruce Peninsula, a major migration route for birds and water fowl. We frequently see many species of birds and water fowl, including many types of Woodland Ducks, Long-tailed Ducks, Northern Pintails, Egrets, Great Blue Herons, Owls, Bald Eagles, Osprey, Golden Eagles, Hawks, Peregrine Falcons, Turkey Vultures, Cormorants, Belted Kingfishers, several types of Swans, Canada Geese, and the Great Northern Loon to name a few.
Lighthouse Lore
Tobermory is home to three functional lighthouses. Lighthouse Point, Cove Island Light and Flowerpot Light. These aids to navigation were built over a hundred years ago to aid mariners in navigating the uncharted waters of Upper Canada in the 1800's. These lighthouses were automated in the 1990's.
Beacons from a time long ago, when sailors, blind in the dense cloud covered night, would look to the far off glow of some distant point to navigate safely to a port of shelter for a warm meal and a dry bed. They are still critical to the many boats, ships and freighters that ply the Great Lakes today. As solemn sentries in the night sky, their lights shine on.
Stellar Nights
Dare to witness the constellations like few have ever seen.
Make a wish as shooting stars fall, scattering streams of light as they blast through the stratosphere.
Sometimes we can sit in awe of the aurora borealis, as the northern lights dance across the stellar sky in these northern nights.
Bad Neighbour Rock Runs
Just a little northwest of the northern tip of Cove Island Light is a pinnacle whose peak lays in the shallows of open lake, silent and unseen. It has the ability to rip the hull open of a ship blown off course in a heavy sea. It is the bad neighbour you don't want to come across.
A great photo opportunity to stand on water in the middle of this Great Lake.
