Summer vacation! 2020

This year's sailing vacation was a much needed change of scene.

Driving straight to Waupoos to start my holiday was like fast forwarding past opening credits to the start of a favourite film. 

Long summer days. Eat when you're hungry; sleep when you're tired, read and read. Each day passed languidly, sometimes a bit of boredom would hit and that would be a sign to jump in the lake or play a game of Backgammon. Then on the last day of the holiday, wondering at how time could pass so quickly.

5 am on Brakey's Bay

Stayed in several new places, including anchorages in Brakey's Bay, Huckleberry Island and South Bay. Visited Laura and Peter on Wolfe Island, enjoyed lunch at the Ganonoque Inn's summer terrace, stumbled upon a masterly built dry stone wall on Amherst Island. A beautiful stretch of time, out of time.

I so love a Big Sky! Such beautiful sunsets and sunrises, and night time skies lit with stars. Cloud watching. 

Some favourite moments: Doing yoga at Waupoos Marina in the boat shed, thinking of how much the place had declined in recent years and then seeing a rainbow in the sky, both a reminder of the beauty that continues and hope the place will rejuvenate in years to come. Lying face up into the night sky in the cockpit, and counting shooting stars with Rob. Driving the dinghy along Waupoos Island shore and seeing the freshly shorn lamb. Witnessing the exact moment the sun rose into the morning sky. Stepping off the swim ladder to float in the lake. Gently swinging at anchor.

Sunrise at Huckleberry

Day 1 - anchored by Waupoos island

Day 2 - anchored in Little Bluffs

Day 3 & 4 - Waupoos Marina

Day 5 - anchored Stella

Days 6, 7, 8, 9 - anchored Brakey's Bay

Day 10 & 11 - Ganonoque Marina

Day 12 - anchored Huckleberry Island (Thousand Islands)

Day 13, 14 - anchored Waupoos Island (west side)

Day 15 - anchored South Bay

Day 16 - home again!

Dry stone wall on Amherst Island

Freshly shorn lamb on Waupoos Island

Summer terrace at Ganonoque Inn