The lighthouse end of Georgian Bay
Cottage care in Pointe au Baril
Watch visits, openings and closings for the mainland and road-access places around Pointe au Baril. If your cottage is on an island, read the second paragraph before you call, because I'll tell you the same thing on the phone.
The most seasonal place I serve
Pointe au Baril sits in The Archipelago, on the east coast of Georgian Bay, where the lighthouse has marked the channel since 1889 and a monument near the Ojibway Club remembers Champlain passing through in 1615. Nowhere on my patch is more seasonal: The Archipelago counts about 12,800 seasonal residents against 979 permanent ones, across more than 2,300 surveyed islands. For the mainland side, the shore roads and everything with a driveway off Highway 69, the work is cottage watch at $99 a visit on the bi-weekly plan, openings and closings in spring and fall, and a storm call after a big blow. Pointe au Baril is a Zone 2 drive for me, so flat-rate jobs add $50, and that's printed here, not discovered on the invoice.
Now the honest part: most cottages at Pointe au Baril are on the water, and I don't run a boat today. Island freight and barging is its own trade with decades-old operators here, and I won't pretend otherwise. If your place is water-access, I'm not your caretaker yet. If that changes, this page will say so.