Drummond Island: Fun in the Water!

One of the highlights of our vacation to Drummond Island this summer was the water. Our house sat right on Lake Huron (or more precisely, on Scammon Cove, which opens into Lake Huron).


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We took great advantage of our time on the water!

Bill brought fishing poles and we all had fun catching fish (and trying to catch them) off the pier.


There was a large rock out in the middle of Scammon Cove (way, way out there) and Dale decided one day to walk to it. He really could walk -- the cove was shallow enough all the way to the rock. I lost sight of him for a few minutes but only panicked a little!


Dale approaches The Rock:


Dale waving to me from the top of The Rock!


Dale took Adelaida out to play in the water ...


... but she really enjoyed the sand more!


We didn't get any picture of this, but BJ and Rachel M brought their canoe. We only took it out once (Michael and Dale were rowing; Adelaida and I were sitting on a cooler in the middle of the canoe), but had a great time. Adelaida enjoyed it so much she fell asleep about ten minutes into the canoe ride!

More fun in the water, with a plastic boat that washed onto our rocks. Some days it just didn't seem worth it to put Adelaida's bathing suit on -- and she was wearing a dress, so she could easily wade out into the water and keep her clothes dry ...


... and then the inevitable happened: she sat down! Well, it didn't hurt anything to let Adelaida play in the water in her clothes, and she had lots of fun playing in the water with the boat.


One disadvantage of this house built in the 19th century was that it didn't have bathtubs. Three bathrooms, three showers, no bathtubs. This wasn't really a problem for those of us over age two, but Adelaida wasn't very fond of the shower. We tried taking her in the shower with us one evening, then realized we had one of the world's largest bathtubs out our back door. After that, she bathed in the lake, with mixed success (she loved being in the water, but still didn't like the getting-clean part). Bath-time has always been Daddy-time at our house, so Dale held her up in the lake, poured water over her, and cleaned her while I took photographs!