Cottage weekend

Pictures from the Cottage

So here's some pictures from the weekend at the cottage on Parry Island First Nation just about 30min drive west of Parry Sound.

We left Toronto around 6 and stopped in Coldwater to pick up groceries and arrived in Parry Sound around 8:30 - an approximate travel distance of 250km and about 2.5 hours.

I think I have a love for the cottage now. I love the dark night where there's no light pollution to block out the stars. I did see the Milky Way and possibly some comet/metero.

On Saturday, we went on a 3 hour boat cruise, Queen Island Cruise around the Parry Islands (some 30,000 islands) and saw a lot of islands... lol I would love to someday buy one of these island and build my own cottage. After the cruise, we did some swimming and the played Balderdash on the boat. We had bbq for dinner and some of us took a night boat ride. It was interested because we couldn't see anything except for these reflective markers telling you where to go around some narrow waterways. We decided to start singing...

On Sunday, we took one last boat ride and we got to the middle of the lake for a swim. On our trip back, the engine decided to "give up." It sounded like someone had put the car into neutral while stepping on the gas. We went from 10 knots (approx. 20km/hr) to 1 or 2 knots (3-5km/hr). So, we were drifting our way back against the wind. We were able to yell at someone at the dock who, at first, we thought were unwilling to help us. Then as we drifted away and 200m away, they came to the rescue and towed us back to our dock. And the tow was faster then how we were moving. A few of us took one last swim at the lake before we went for clean up and pack up. Our original plan was to leave Parry Sound at 3... and hour awesome engine trouble pushed that time back to 6pm. But it was still fun. And we got back into town around 9:30.