Photo Challenge
February 7, 2009 at 5:42 pm (Photographs)
When it comes to a tag involving photographs, I’m all over it. Similar to a recent one I posted, Don’t Bug Me has tagged anyone who’s interested to post the fourth photo from the fourth folder (unlike my recent one where it was the sixth of the sixth). Anyway, here goes:
Caribou Lake
The photo above was taken the weekend before my wedding. I visited my aunt and uncle, and they took me fishing at a friend’s lodge called Bear Paw Lodge. I’ve blogged about this great fishing experience before. Here is a photo taken from almost the same spot, just a few minutes later [and zoomed in]:
Caribou Lake
And then there’s the dock:
Docked
One of the cabins:
Caribou Cabin
And what would such a beautiful lake be without delicious pickerel?
Fishing at Bear Paw Lodge
So, now it’s your turn.
Cortes said,
February 7, 2009 at 6:52 pm
What a fabulous location. Wonderful pictures, and they bring back memories of my cabin on Cortes Island. I love pictures of cabins with a large BBQ on the front deck, shows that the residents have their priorities straight.
Cortes said,
February 7, 2009 at 8:15 pm
Carol
Yes, that is the cabin. We built it ourselves, with some local help of course, using mostly Island materials. It wasn’t easy, but what a thrill! Only about 400 square feet plus the sleeping loft, with a wood stove, electricity, telephone (no one really had the number), then dug a well and built a pump house. We had the required composting toilet (you could ask DBM what she thought of that, I haven’t had the nerve to do so) and an outdoor shower. From the front deck we can
see the Straight of Georgia, eagles, hummingbirds, and a great expanse of solitude and silence.
From what I see in your pictures, you enjoy much the same. That is what makes it so special.
Don't Bug Me! said,
February 8, 2009 at 9:46 am
Love the photo! I really must head up north sometime soon.
As for Cortes’ composting toilet, well, I have certainly seen way worse when it comes to holes in the ground, but I am still refusing to let Mr. DBM have one in my house.
Carole said,
February 8, 2009 at 12:11 pm
Cortes, your cabin sounds (and looks) like a dream. The cabin shown above is in northern Ontario, though there are many similar ones here in the Yukon.
Someday…someday…sigh!
Cortes & DBM: The toilet discussion reminds me of a few friends here who use outhouses. At 40 below, even a thick piece of styrofoam doesn’t cut it. You’re lucky if you don’t have yellow icicles dangling from the nether regions by the time you’re done your business.
Baino said,
February 8, 2009 at 1:01 pm
Gorgeous place. So green and lush. Must put Canada on the travel map.