Anyone going to the cottage?

[nix]

Our family owns a cottage in the Georgian Bay on a private island, and I found it on google sattelite: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=louisa+island,+parry+sound,+ontario&ll=45.236979,-80.159769&spn=0.059442,0.079338&t=k&num=2&start=0&hl=en

We go every year, and it's an amazing place. Anyone else have a cottage they go to? The cottage is centered on the map, and has a small beige strip. That beige strip has made that island the most valuable in a 100 mile radius. In our area, the Northern strait, almost all islands are complete rock faces. This island is in a private bay that shallows out really nice, and has the only sand beach for miles around. Possibly the most beautiful island you'll ever find.

So, now that I'm done bragging, :P I'll log off cause I'm going for the next 6 days and relaxing on a sandy beach. :verycool: See y'alls later!

[Pegasus]

I don't have a cottage to go to, but I've been up in that neck of the woods. You're right. Most of the islands are rocks, but boy, are they beautiful! That whole area is phenomenal to see.

Nope. I stay in town and send the kids off, I'm afraid. With no vehicle, there's not too many places I can go.

Peg

[tinkerbell]

that's nice.. we don't have one... and my mom's hometown is quite far here.. it would take me 18 hrs ride

[Juparis]

I don't have a cottage (nor have I ever), but there was a place up north I use to love/dread going to.. My dad had once owned a 40-sum acre property that was all forested up to a lake. It even had a natural spring which ran into the lake.. I loved going there for the view of the lake (or fishing/ice skating on it), but the mosquitoes were horrible...

It was a passed-down piece of land for 3 generations, and ended with my father.. Taxes got too high and he couldn't keep the property; had to sell it to some rich guy who undoubtedly is trying to get a building permit for the property... :( I wish the wildlife could be kept as it was; it was such a beautiful place, especially in the fall.. It's also where we buried my first dog (Dutchess, a dachshund for anyone interested :D).

If I learned anything there, it was how to bring down a tree (we often sold the old/dying trees to help bring up the younger trees). Oh wait... where's the moral in all of this? :P

[Horus_Kol]

no cottage... i tend to camp for weekends away, although sometimes me and a few others get a bunkhouse or something...

[leptogenesis]

My grandparents have a sort of cottage/summer home sort of thing in New Hampshire (USA). It's really nice, because we can drive up there and stay for the night before driving into the White Mountains. My dad and I are really into backpacking, so we like to hike around the White Mountains every so often... in fact, I was just up there for the last 3 days, hiiking over mount Moosilauke.