It all began here…

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Well I guess the best place to start is from the beginning. We were still living in Ontario and the nature bug hit us hard when my husband introduced us to his favourite childhood pastime, his summers spent in Muskoka. This is something he was adamant that β€œhis girls”, experience. So began our tradition of summers in Muskoka and our love for nature and the outdoors.

  • Watch tower views of Dorset
  • Trekking our 3 mth old in her car seat on our hike
  • Our oldest Madison loving the lake.
Our first summer at Long Lake in 2002. We fell in love with Dorset and all the surrounding Lakes.
  • 5 summers later…
  • Leaving your wad of gum on the watch tower rails was a thing
  • Our private dock from our cottage.
  • Beautiful Long Lake
  • Our youngest~ holding dads beer
  • Someone always got thrown in the lake!
  • Start them young…
  • This pretty much sums us up~ minus the smoking.
Our last summer spent at Long Lake in 2008

Published by CHolmes75

Canadian born to Portuguese immigrant parents (Açores) and 4th in birth order of 10 children. I was born and raised in Strathroy, Ontario (2.5 hrs SW of Toronto) in September, 1975. I met my husband in 1995, had our first daughter in 1996, married in 2000 and had our youngest daughter in 2002. We began our move west to Edmonton Alberta in 2009 and further west once more to Vancouver Island in 2012 where we still reside. I enjoy, traveling, road trips, boating, camping, hiking, nature walks, photography and sharing all of it with anyone who can relate, live vicariously through, or maybe even inspire to live out some of these experiences for themselves.

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