The rest of this site is practical. These entries are the longer notes I made while reading about the place, kept here because they explain why the resort and the beaches look the way they do.
Month by month at Grand Beach, from the first migrating birds to the sand sculptures and the February ski trails, with every date from a provincial source.
Why a resort in the Manitoba bush is named after a beach in Miami, and what the place looks like inside.
How I keep this diary
Every entry is dated by the day I wrote it, and every fact in it links to the page I read. I do not write about stays I did not have, conversations I did not hear, or guests who do not exist. When a source is promotional, such as the resort itself or the province's tourism site, I say so in the text.
The diary will grow as the seasons do. The next entries I want to write are about the plovers in June and the ski trails in February, once the province publishes its 2027 dates.