Paddles

So we went to the Canadian Tire, bought some cheap paddles (it’s a miracle how they can make wooden paddles in Canada for 15 bucks), and went back to ‘our’ lake. The canoe was still there, although it wasn’t hidden anymore, but just in the middle of the pebble beach. We loaded all our stuff in it and went exploring. The lake is quite big, in kind of a C-shape. On the narrow point in the middle of the C there are ruins of a house, that apparently burned down many years ago. Because the lake is now in use as a water reservoir, there are no cottages and you can’t use any motor boats. It is still a mystery to me why there aren’t a whole slew of other people but I don’t mind. At the north shore of the lake, we land on a rocky slab and enjoy the sun and the nice cooling water. Well, I did, Alison doesn’t like to swim. Poupoune however swam a lot, she couldn’t get enough of fetching the ball. At some point she was exhausted and cold, so I took her in the canoe so she could rest a bit. She is not very fond of paddling though so she probably was too anxious to really rest. Ah well, I enjoyed myself.