Verna's gear store is an excellent option for cost friendly and useful camping and outdoor clothing gear. It's not very large, but it is the go-to place for footwear, outer wear and camping essentials you may have forgotten to bring with you. You will be very hard pressed to find a $3 rain poncho anywhere else in this tourist town.
They tend to carry current trendy items and one year I brought home a pair of gel slippers that were an interesting combination of odd and useful. It's trendy in terms of retail fads rather than fashion. The clothing items are mostly useful basics that have nothing to do with haute couture, apart from the quintessential pieces like your classic rain boots and slickers and the like.
I always stop in to see what's around for the current season and almost always come out with the best bargain of the trip. It's a comforting shopping staple in Tobermory. read more