If hiking up the Bruce is not your ration of rum, how about a 5 day tour of duty up the Peninsula as a member of Capt.Ray's crew aboard an updated restoration of an authentic 1891 tugboat? James Ellsworth brings us some tales from his seafaring days aboard the Dawnlight ...

The abrupt phone message said, "Pack a bag for five days and be in Tobermory's Little Tub Harbour tomorrow." Throwing my readied duffle bag into the car and going off to sea was the stuff of romance and fantasy about to become real.
[ via Cambridge Now: Luck and Magic: Five Glorious Days ]