Cottage Country II

My FIRST 24. Heading to the Benoit Jr.'s cabin in the Muskokas.

Chuck (M's neighbour-brother) and Katherine

Chuck and Katherine's kids.

Family Picnic

Various Sail Pics (Captions Needed)

The swinging bridge at Little Current, North Channel, Ontario

On our way through..

One fast cat...

The family out and going

Skeya turned out to love fishing...

Bugs From Hell

Sailing: Getting Ready to Go

The boat we sailed on is similar to our boat at home (the one that Maura's Dad gave us for a wedding present...OMG) Below are some pics as we set the boat up and then a little side trip we took to a wonderful little cottage owned by friends of Don and Linda.

Getting ready to raise the mast

Assembling the dingy

The crew once the boat is ready to put in the water

Maura and Linda on our way to the cutest little cottage in the world...

The cutest little cottage in the world

The cutest little deck...

Random Toronto Pics

There are more photos coming, but I need to figure out how to get them from another computer that just won't connect to the net. Be patient...

One goal for 'the east' was to find a good feed of poutine. This place just opened on Queen Street in Toronto. It was called something like Poutine R Us. The first feed J and I had 15 years ago by the Parliament Buildings is still number one. This however was #2.

See? Even Maura tried it!

Barb (M's sister-neighbour) and Maura posing at the Poutine Bar. Supposedly the place just opened, last week there were line ups outside the door! These 'babes' were as hot as the poutine, let me tell you...

Had dinner with my nephew Matt in his hood. It's all good!

Check out the pink skid jacket! Only in a big city such as TO!

The 400 (Big Frigging Hwy) out to Niagara On The Lake flooded. FLOODED!!! So much for hot, muggy Ontario summers.

The family shot...Niagara On The Lake

With our friends Doug and Laura on Niagara on the Lake.

Carcross Pictures

Back in the 70's I went to an alternative school in Carcross, Yukon. It has been 30 years since it closed down. The Carcross Community Education Center (aka The Hippy School) was a pretty important place/experience for many people. I was one of them. I took off from Toronto to spend the weekend with a bunch of old friends, old hippies. Oh how we have aged, more so, oh how we stayed young...at heart...

The Big Group

The Engineers (We all got/had our 4th Class Stationary Steam Tickets at Carcross)

Doug taking down two caribou...with his bare hands...

Activities included some scary moments, such as "Hippies with Guns" aka trap shooting.

Getting in touch with my inner duck hunter...

Morning coffee...with OLD friends

SOME of my fav folks...

Yoga...a more typical hippie activity...

And now...for the best picture of all, or at least the funniest, possibly the most surprising...
This is me at 18. And no, I AM NOT stoned. Honest. Pinky Swear. (Photo Rick Van Sickle 1977)

Cottage Country I

Rob hard at work on the blog. I tell you, blogging can really take it out of a guy. Thank god he has Skeya to help him out with some of the work.

Henry's Fish Fry is a famous places on Georgian Bay. It is a resturant that is only accessible by boat. We got on a taxi out of Parry Sound and took at 40 minute ride to the place. The scenery and company were WAY better than the food. I guess living on the West Coast we have developed a little bit of fish snobbery.

Nice!

If you look carefully enough you can see Tom Thompson's ghost, in a canoe just off the point.

His tent is just in the shadows at the back.

Big as an ocean

End of a long day. Back at Janet's on the lake.

Skeya and Jake are NOT having ANY fun...