Ontario has had a really bad summer for weather. I knew before coming that it had been raining a lot, but the locals tell us that until about 10 days ago, it was rain daily with only brief cloudy periods in between the showers. Sunshine has been a rarity. Luckily for us the pattern changed. We had rain and clouds at Pancake Bay, but as we left the weather began to improve and it has been beautiful for these last 8 days. Yesterday was clear and sunny, but as we cooked dinner it clouded over and about 9:00 we heard rumblings of thunder and soon it was a downpour. We were dry and comfortable as we played gin before turning in for the night. It rained off and on through out the nite and it was cloudy when we got up this morning. Our rainy day plan included walking around the lake (about 5 km), going to the visitor center and shopping in Tobermory. The morning weather steadily improved as we hiked. We stopped at the Singing Sands day use area on the way to the visitor center. This is a wide sandy beach on a large bay of Lake Huron. Wide doesn't do it justice. The sand beach is flat and about 200 yards to the water. You can walk out several hundred yards into the water and it still only comes up to your knees. By the time we left Singing Sands it was sunny so we scratched the visitor center and headed straight into Tobermory for some lunch. I had smoked whitefish on pita bread with a really nice glaze. Really a good tasting lunch. I did a little business using the wifi connection and we updated the blog before taking off for shopping. Tobermory has some fine outdoor stores. We headed for the Blue Heron and departed from it with $500 of shorts, blouses, swim trucks and sandals. The original plan was to go back to Cypress Lake and spend some beach time there, but Singing Sands was impressive so we headed back to it. A young girl asked if she could take Lena swimming; Melodee agreed and Lena got a good workout. When the girl brought Lena back she asked about Sol. Melodee told her Sol was old and didn't run anymore, but the girl persisted and soon she and Sol were off. I'll be darned if Sol didn't get excited and run for a short distance until he fell in a hole. I think its been over a year since he's run; it sure was good to see it again. I went for another swim in Lake Huron. Just getting to deep enough water takes a long time; I must have walked out 300 yards to get where I could actually take a couple strokes.
About 5PM we headed back to camp, did our weight lifting, had a pushup contest (42-21), fed the dogs and took them for their walk. This is a good place for walking. A short walk up the camp road brings us to the trail along the lake shore and back to our campsite. Melodee asked if I didn't want to get in one last swim. She and the dogs sat on the shore as I walked out into the lake and swam a few strokes. Such a nice way to end the day.
We walked the short way back to camp, had a glass of wine and cooked supper. I know we've done this every day, but its a really nice rut to be in!
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