Icelandic Lawn Parade & Sandcastle Contests July 28-Aug. 1, 2022

LaurieLovesLearning

These are contests sponsored by the largest Icelandic festival in the world, and it is held in my province of Manitoba, Canada. It usually is visited by dignitaries from & citizens of Iceland (which I think is pretty interesting).

• Enter from anywhere around the world. This is open to all ages as well. Submit your entry between July 28th to August 1st, 2022 at 10:00 AM CST to be considered for judging

https://www.icelandicfestival.com/festival-events/schedule-of-events/event/38

https://www.icelandicfestival.com/festival-events/schedule-of-events/event/37

If you enter, please let us know & post below.

Torey

I've heard about the large Icelandic community in Manitoba and the festival that draws Icelandic people to Gimli and surrounding communities. But I didn't know about the lawn parade or the sandcastle contest. Nice looking beach. Are there a lot of beaches like that on Lake Winnipeg?

LaurieLovesLearning

I've actually never been to any on Lake Winnipeg, & only one on Lake Manitoba. I do know that there is a beach there that substituted for an ocean beach in a TV series years ago. It's not a show that I watched, so I don’t remember the name of it, but it was a very popular show for teens in the 80s & 90s. It's imaginary setting was on the US West Coast.

Here is a US production covering 4 of the popular beaches on Lake Winnipeg. My understanding is that there are even more that are good to go to.

https://youtu.be/uMz-6NVdv48

Torey

Cool video @LaurieLovesLearning. Very informative. While I knew the size of the lake on a map, it is different than looking at the expanse in pictures. I didn't know that so much of it was sandy. I googled a bit on Lake Agassiz. I knew how much of the landscape it covered but didn't know how much sand there was. I was looking at pics of dunes that have been left behind, in places you'd never expect to find sand dunes.

LaurieLovesLearning

I have relatives in some of those "Lake Agassiz" areas of sand dunes. There is quite a huge drop of the escarpment east of Riding Mountain National Park that would gave been shoreline as well.

Just south of the TransCanada in the southwest there is a place called Oak Lake that has lots of covered dunes, and Spruce Woods Provincial Forest & Carberry have lots of sand.

marjstratton

That sounds interesting and fun. Loved our visit to Iceland. Didn't see any sandy beaches when we were there though.