June 23, 2007.  Yesterday we became members of the "Domaine des Pionniers" and bought a trailer with rooms added on. This is a club, now a co-operative, and you have to be 48 years of age or older and one of the couple has to be French speaking to own a camp here. They hold all kinds of activities during the summer. We have already attended a dinner with all kinds of home made foods and then they had a local band for a dance later in the evening. There is a "First of July" celebration and a "Fish Derby" coming up. We can invite family and friends to come for visit's and festivities, children must be supervised and no pets are allowed, sorry family and friends with pets.. The residents are great. They have screened gazebos with swings conveniently located throughout the park, there is a games hall with pool table, shuffle board, etc., a larger hall for parties, dances and dinners, laundry facilities, treated water system, electricity and the yearly fee is $500.00 which also includes taxes! We are looking forward to spending time there after Denis has finished his renovations. The lake has access to 3 other lake's and there are dozens of other lakes nearby. We hear there is a lot of Bass in these lakes, we have not fished for bass before so we will have to get Leo up for a visit to show us how to catch Bass. We can also invite our friends who have RVs as the grounds have 10 parking spots at $10 per night, water and hydro included, how convenient.

Birch Lake

 


Our camp at Birch Lake. Starting on the left of of the Camp picture is the Gazebo from there you walk into the living room, in behind the living room is the bedroom and the trailer is the kitchen/dining area/small washroom w/ shower.

 

 

 

 

 

Gazebo, it will be really nice on a hot summer's night.

 

 

A small cozy living room.


Denis sleeping in after a 4C evening.		 This is the kitchen and dining area.

It was in move in condition. We could not have asked for more and think we will be happy here during the summer.
Then there is the dreaded outhouse. We have a "pottie" in the washroom for me. We hear that some of the residence have really jazzed theirs up. We will have to check them out. Ours is just a plain old outhouse but it's clean and there is a sink in it with running water. Of course if you do not want to use the outhouse there is a public washroom and showers at the hall.

 		 We have been exploring our camp area and Denis loves to go where no man has gone before.

There are so many lakes that we can travel with the canoe. If we jump one beaver dam from our lake, then do 2  small portages and one more beaver dam, and we get to a large secluded pickerel lake and hardly see anyone else.

 There is beautiful scenery everywhere and of course traces of human existence. Denis is disgusted with how people litter and pick's/cleans up whenever he can. This old boat was abandoned and beaten up by mother nature.

 

He was so excited with this beautiful bass.

On the left where the arrow is pointing, is our camp. The reason I call it a camp is you have to be prepared to use an outhouse.

 

 

 

Denis relaxing in the gazebo after a hard day of fishing which he always says is better then a bad day at work.

    
Aug. 11, 2008. We have spent part of May and all of July at the Domain. During this time we have done some renovations and feel quite comfortable there now and have gotten to know our neighbours better. Below is a collage I made of our July 1st celebrations. They are a great bunch of people from the area and we are looking forward to getting to know them better next year.

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