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On Saturday my in-laws decided to take my kids up north in the motor home to Port Severn. Here is a wiki link to the area: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Severn,_Ontariohttp://. What they failed to mention is that all the lakes and rivers in the area were joined by a series of lifts and blasting out the rocks. There many land masses that are cut off from the main land in a variety of large and small islands. Many people have populated the area with cottages, some of the coolest ones are located on the smaller islands. I was looking up prices the other day (surprise surprise they were expensive), the cheapest one I found was a bare island that I would have to build on for 180K. Maybe in the future 
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We got a night off from the two older ones on Saturday and decided to go up and meet with everybody on Sunday. It takes about an hour and half to get there from our place. We have a friend that has a fully "off grid" cottage on that lake that was just 5min from the gated camp site that my in-laws and children were staying at.
The entire camp site was connected by a set of canals, and each house / camp site has a designated dock for their boats.
I must have seen 8-10 people cruising around in kayaks and canoes just in the canals alone.
The boy wanted to go fishing off of the dock while we waited for our friends to come pick us up for some boating.
My daughter, grabbed a screw driver and promptly told me she was going to fix the dock
After she then got jealous and wanted to fish too, so my wife got her rod and we started helping them out.
After about 5min we were joined by some local wildlife. I'm guessing he was around to steal some of our fish. As Tradewater mentioned in another thread, the only thing I could think about the entire time was "Does this thing taste like chicken? and can I eat it?"
Our friends then came to pick us up in the small boat and we headed out to the lake. Here is the wife and daughter snuggling in front of the boat.
The boy, giving me the 'Why do you keep taking my picture' look
The opening to the main lake
5min later we were at my buddies cottage. This thing is amazing. I only took the one picture but I can always tell you a little more about it (in the center of the photo). He has his radio license and works as an "on call" emergency responder up there in the winter. The cottage is run on solar and wind power, and he has two 1000 gallon propane tanks for fuel (pictured under the radio tower). He has about 2-3 acres on the island it is situated on. The big boat is sitting beside the water garage. We were in the small boat, the medium sized one was out with my brother in-law fishing. I love this place and would absolutely love to have a place like this one day.
The view from shore. Normally there are not as many boats on the water, but there was a bass tournament this weekend.
We then got out in the motorboat. Keeping with my pictures of the day, the wife and daughter laughing as we cruised across the water at 40mph.
We then dropped off the wife and daughter (because she needed to feed the baby) and us boys headed out to "Big Shoot" (history:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway). This is a canal that was blasted out to make travel a little easier. We were on our way to a little man made waterfall to go for a swim.
Some people just have to make their artistic impressions everywhere
Here is a tiny man made waterfall. Sorry for the dark pictures, we had a rain cloud going over.
After our swim we made our way back to the camp site for dinner.
The kids wanted a camp fire while waiting for dinner but with all the technology of using a mobile home for camping they forgot the tools needed for proper survival. Me being the avid "Beckerhead" that I am, never leaves home without the ability to survive with just what I have one me. Out comes the backpack from the van, then it's BK2 and firesteel to the rescue! No log too big or thick for the BK2 to take care of!
My little demonstration of bushcraft basics got some attention. My in-laws and the neighbor from the next camp site were intrigued that one knife could be so versatile. I gave them the info and boasted the amazingness of the Becker line of knives. Looks like a few Bk2 sales in the future.
After dinner the mosquito hell chased us out of there. In the 5 min it took to pack all the kids in the van we ended up counting 30 of them that decided to hitch a ride home in the van with us... only 5 survived the entire trip home.
All in all, a great day on the lake.
. We got a night off from the two older ones on Saturday and decided to go up and meet with everybody on Sunday. It takes about an hour and half to get there from our place. We have a friend that has a fully "off grid" cottage on that lake that was just 5min from the gated camp site that my in-laws and children were staying at.
The entire camp site was connected by a set of canals, and each house / camp site has a designated dock for their boats.
I must have seen 8-10 people cruising around in kayaks and canoes just in the canals alone.
The boy wanted to go fishing off of the dock while we waited for our friends to come pick us up for some boating.
My daughter, grabbed a screw driver and promptly told me she was going to fix the dock
After she then got jealous and wanted to fish too, so my wife got her rod and we started helping them out.
After about 5min we were joined by some local wildlife. I'm guessing he was around to steal some of our fish. As Tradewater mentioned in another thread, the only thing I could think about the entire time was "Does this thing taste like chicken? and can I eat it?"
Our friends then came to pick us up in the small boat and we headed out to the lake. Here is the wife and daughter snuggling in front of the boat.
The boy, giving me the 'Why do you keep taking my picture' look
The opening to the main lake
5min later we were at my buddies cottage. This thing is amazing. I only took the one picture but I can always tell you a little more about it (in the center of the photo). He has his radio license and works as an "on call" emergency responder up there in the winter. The cottage is run on solar and wind power, and he has two 1000 gallon propane tanks for fuel (pictured under the radio tower). He has about 2-3 acres on the island it is situated on. The big boat is sitting beside the water garage. We were in the small boat, the medium sized one was out with my brother in-law fishing. I love this place and would absolutely love to have a place like this one day.
The view from shore. Normally there are not as many boats on the water, but there was a bass tournament this weekend.
We then got out in the motorboat. Keeping with my pictures of the day, the wife and daughter laughing as we cruised across the water at 40mph.
We then dropped off the wife and daughter (because she needed to feed the baby) and us boys headed out to "Big Shoot" (history:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Chute_Marine_Railway). This is a canal that was blasted out to make travel a little easier. We were on our way to a little man made waterfall to go for a swim.
Some people just have to make their artistic impressions everywhere
Here is a tiny man made waterfall. Sorry for the dark pictures, we had a rain cloud going over.
After our swim we made our way back to the camp site for dinner.
The kids wanted a camp fire while waiting for dinner but with all the technology of using a mobile home for camping they forgot the tools needed for proper survival. Me being the avid "Beckerhead" that I am, never leaves home without the ability to survive with just what I have one me. Out comes the backpack from the van, then it's BK2 and firesteel to the rescue! No log too big or thick for the BK2 to take care of!
My little demonstration of bushcraft basics got some attention. My in-laws and the neighbor from the next camp site were intrigued that one knife could be so versatile. I gave them the info and boasted the amazingness of the Becker line of knives. Looks like a few Bk2 sales in the future.
After dinner the mosquito hell chased us out of there. In the 5 min it took to pack all the kids in the van we ended up counting 30 of them that decided to hitch a ride home in the van with us... only 5 survived the entire trip home.
All in all, a great day on the lake.
