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Thanksgiving & Fall Happenings
Winding down for the season - One of our staff Katie is leaving today - Yup, she's off to Kiwi land for the winter (& Jesse won't be far behind ... ) Bonne Voyage and good luck to both of them.
Fall Happenings The Art trip went really well for Siobhan and Jack - Greg Mason's dad sailed his boat up to join the group and they had amazing weather. Same thing for September Moments - Patti, Peter and Cathy had a full house (9 participants) with great weather - one daytrip was 30 km - and this with a group where most were in there 60's and 70's! Several jumped in for a swim every morning - guess us guide types are gittin soft cause far as I know, staff weren't part of the swimming crowd.
Storm Gathering is almost full however there are a few spots left. We are really looking forward to Saturday night fish supper at Gilly's, Mark Scriver's Presentation on paddling Greenland and Kenton Otterbeins talk and show on the Bay history.
Lots of School Kayak Programmes - We had Rosseau College out for three trip sections mid September then the last week of Sept was a trip section from Bruce Peninsula Highschool with Kevin and Christine. Jessie and I went out on last week with Parry Sound High School Outtrip - so there we were - about 36 kayaks (between all different trip groups) on the Bay in the wildest weather we've had all year. Funny how the most exciting stuff happens in the fall.
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Oh yeah, Greg and I went over to the PC Symposium at MKC (madawaska kanu centre) and had a blast. I signed up for a freestyle clinic and had no idea what freestyle was. Found out I still don't know what it means, but I do know that Greg is better than most at it - and Tim is best off on shore. So now we've got our Thanksgiving weekend - cooking up a couple of turkeys, with family visiting and squallions working the weekend kayak/canoe sale -so it'll be a party. See more pics of weekend symposium
West Coast Expedition - Jess, me, and 5 Squallions are flying out to the Nootka Sound coast for a late season paddle in the surf. I used to guide out there long ago (forgot everything so I hope they don't ask me anything) but I've always wanted to go back - so we'll let ya know how it goes. Best part is taking a big old wooden freighter out to the open coast and getting "wet dropped" into the ocean with a crane. Hey, we could build a crane for kids kayaking next year huh?
Other news.... The lawn is all torn up with new drainage tile. The chickens still stink, Blackfly almost sank in these rains. Customers are still coming in and Graham is still with us doing marketing from Kingston.......so things is changin' as Fred Eaglesmith would say - but in some ways - they's still the same.
Oh yeah, Greg and I went over to the