Anchors Away Ice Sculpture Festival in Collingwood, Ontario

Federal Government Building, Downtown Collingwood, Ontario

Collingwood, one of our favourite small towns to visit in Ontario, is a two hour drive north west of Toronto. We come here a lot to ski in the winter. It is a pretty tourist town.






It was almost 11p.m. when we finished our game at the bowling alley.

On our way back to the hotel,  we made a detour to see the ice sculptures lining both sides of the main street of downtown Collingwood.

An Anchor

We did not realize that there was an ice sculpture festival in Collingwood, a town with a population of about 19,000 residents.

We have been to this small town before numerous times and this was the first time we came across the ice sculptures so we stopped and took a look at them even though it was in the middle of the night.

This year's theme is called Anchors Away and the ice sculpture festival runs from December 27- January 5, 2013.

Therefore, there were a number of ice sculptures on display, all to do with water.













Though the sculptures were not very large, they were all illuminated with colorful lighting and were fun to look at and for picture taking.

The weather was supposedly to be warming up. So I made sure that we could see the ice sculptures before they were melt away by the warm temperatures in the next few days.

We went back during the day to see a few more ice sculptures. A nice activity when it's too cold to ski on the hill!

There were lot more ice sculptures but I am only showing a few here. I hope you will have a chance to see them in person!

R.T.
Collingwood
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