Canoeing on the Rideau Canal

The lake looked so tempting and the canoe was waiting in the garden, so we decided to use our arms instead of the legs. I had just read about a guy who had driven up the Rideau Canal by canoe, it took him 8 days and he wrote, that despite of the rain, it was wonderful.
So we were out there too, not that ambitious but still wanting to see some island that are in the lake here in front of Westport. To our surprise, they are all inhabited, not permanently but with summerhouses of impressive size. Some islets are so small, that the house barely fit onto them, others are one or two acres in surface and certainly lovely places to spend a quiet weekend.
We spend the whole afternoon on the water; our landlady said that she did worry about us. But then she thought, if they made it by bike from Newfoundland to Westport, they will come back safely. And we did so, just a bit sunburned; the sun was relay strong and hot. We certainly had 25 degrees.



Westport at dawn



Little house islet