Eric

Attendance:  9th year
Beverage of choice:  Upper Canada Lager

The five days at the camp operate at a pace 50% less than time spent at home or the office.   The only anchors are meal times, specifically dinner.  Breakfast is optional and for me is eliminated due to the midnight fish fry.  The day starts with Bailey's & coffee and fishing.  The rest of the day is occupied with reading the Saturday Globe & Mail (all sections over 5 days), sauna, trolling, fish on a bun lunch, and exploring the lakes past glories or current opportunities.

Now in our 9th year organizing the trip is a matter of routine.  Food & pack lists exist and have been tuned to the point where items are brought that may never be utilized.  Assuming your narrator has not forgotten items in the family van in Gravenhurst (this year: apples, mustard, relish, and oyster sauce!) or in Toronto (my snorkel mask) used to retrieve lures or other treasures off the dock.

This year like other years, it does not seem to be about the fishing.  We fish.  We have always had enough for the fish on a bun lunches, late night fish fry, and the premiere meal of the week Ben's Tuesday Night dinner (without the fish we would have to resort to broccoli and the Honeynut Cheerios in the box I used to pen this "comment").

For the record the log cabin is about 7 square meters with a deck elevated to catch the breeze through the clearing in front, allowing the pre-dinner sun to enrich the soul.  A thin layer of trees displays the glistening sun on the lakes wave's beyond.

This years group, like most years seems content to move at a pace half the speed of the remaining 360 days to the year, until we once again visit a part of the globe that is trees, water, mosquitoes, fish, and not much else.  Would not have it any other way (except maybe the mosquitoes).

Join us for 2003 !

Eric