A few Drummond Island pictures...

[scot_douglas]

A beautiful sunset one of the last nights there:



Beginning of the camp we made on Bird Island in Whitney Bay (just off the south shore of Drummond)



Kayaking



And a favorite from Glen Canyon/Lake Powell in May:

[April]

Beautiful Scooter....... Thanks!

[KarenM]

You mean you made it to Glen Canyon and didnt tell me??!! I really want to know all about that trip - it's on my list to do this fall... need more details!!

Your pictures are beautiful!

[scot_douglas]

I forgot to mention that you can pick up our very own Dan Harrison's guide to mountainbiking on drummond island at the local bookstore there.

Was a nice surprise to discover.

[Nate_H.]

Beautiful pics!

[boks]

Great Pictures! Thanks!

[Jason L.]

Where was the WEDDING PROPOSAL at ?

[scot_douglas]

Where was the WEDDING PROPOSAL at ?

On the island, second photo down, over a bottle of wine in the twilight. Wow, news travels way fast....

[Dan_Harrison]

I forgot to mention that you can pick up our very own Dan Harrison's guide to mountainbiking on drummond island at the local bookstore there.

Was a nice surprise to discover.

Thanks for the plug, Scot. someday I'll finish the sequel, "A Sea Kayaker's Guide to Drummond Island." There are lots of details and issues to work out first. Like camping. The local DNR unit wishes the kayakers would just stick to the township park and the local B&Bs, I think.
Bird Island, like most of the islands, is private property, BTW (Harbor Island is the notable exception, and its a day-use-only federal nature preserve). I paddled to nearby Bellevue Island with my nephew, and we barely ate lunch before the flies discovered us. We heard an ominous humming like a million bees, and then they were all over us. In that situation, I would have kept my proposal VERY brief!
Anyway, congrats! Here's to many years of paddling through life's waters together.

Dan
PS: Nice Boat! Looks a lot like mine:

[scot_douglas]

I forgot to mention that you can pick up our very own Dan Harrison's guide to mountainbiking on drummond island at the local bookstore there.

Was a nice surprise to discover.

Thanks for the plug, Scot. someday I'll finish the sequel, "A Sea Kayaker's Guide to Drummond Island." There are lots of details and issues to work out first. Like camping. The local DNR unit wishes the kayakers would just stick to the township park and the local B&Bs, I think.
Bird Island, like most of the islands, is private property, BTW (Harbor Island is the notable exception, and its a day-use-only federal nature preserve). I paddled to nearby Bellevue Island with my nephew, and we barely ate lunch before the flies discovered us. We heard an ominous humming like a million bees, and then they were all over us. In that situation, I would have kept my proposal VERY brief!
Anyway, congrats! Here's to many years of paddling through life's waters together.

Dan
PS: Nice Boat! Looks a lot like mine:

Bird Island is owned by the family that owns ft. drummond marina on whitney bay road - the same place you can leave your car when you kayak and where I took the sunset photo at. The owners of bird is. are thinking of opening it up to rustic camping in the near future.

It was mostly cold and rainy whenwe were there, so the bugs were not a concern - not even mosquitos! We had fun getting out first real experience in 2-3' waves and...surfing! Thanks for the well wishes! We'll have to get out to the water sometime

P.S. How do you make that Red X seaworthy?

[Dan_Harrison]

Bird Island is owned by the family that owns ft. drummond marina on whitney bay road - the same place you can leave your car when you kayak and where I took the sunset photo at. The owners of bird is. are thinking of opening it up to rustic camping in the near future.

It was mostly cold and rainy whenwe were there, so the bugs were not a concern - not even mosquitos! We had fun getting out first real experience in 2-3' waves and...surfing! Thanks for the well wishes! We'll have to get out to the water sometime

P.S. How do you make that Red X seaworthy?

That's interesting about Bird Island. I talked to Blaine Tischer about the water trail last summer, and he didn't mention the camping idea. Maybe the DNR's hopes for the private sector taking up the slack, aren't so unreasonable.
Sorry about the IMG file It's taken from a Yahoo Groups site that must be a members-only area. You'd like it, though:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SKLAKE/

Dan