We stopped to wander around Big Lake, which is on Manitoulin Island in Lake Huron, Ontario.

It’s an incredibly lovely, clear lake, popular with campers and boaters. A wide range of water sports such as windsurfing, sailing, kayaking, swimming and paddle boarding are also common but I understand that anything with an engine isn’t allowed, so if you’re in a boat, you’re also getting your arm exercise!

Summer cottages, many of which can be rented, dot the lake’s beaches.

We had a lovely ramble around the water’s edge and saw this mother loon with eight very little ones!

The birch trees were wearing their new pea green leaves and we enjoyed walking inside their canopy. We encountered a few blackflies but nothing much, really. At a stop the next day they were terrible, but that’s another story!

Happy Thursday.