Live The Adventure

 There are times in your life when you get to know people who are kindred spirits and will be friends forever.  The Henderson family are just such people.  Steve is the guitar player and lead worship leader at our wonderful church, Dryden Full Gospel in Dryden, Ontario.  It takes us about 2 hours to drive there when we are able to attend on a Sunday morning.  His wife, Kellie is the keyboard player and does an exceptional job.  Their entire family are musicians including Kim, Kellie's identical twin who plays the bass guitar and Steve and Kellie's children.  Tanner plays guitar and drums and sings very well.  Danielle plays keyboard and piano and Jessie plays piano too.  I have had the blessing of playing my cello with their team on Sunday mornings during the worship time.   Joanna too has joined the team as a singer.  I can honestly say that I have experienced some of the most amazing times in God's presence ever while playing...

 For twenty fun-filled days we enjoyed a visit from our son, Jonathan who lives in Oklahoma City, OK along with his three amazing children... Aaron, Titus and Evemarie.  They have visited us here before many times, but never for such an extended time.   Every day seemed to be filled with exciting activities or adventures.  Thankfully we had warm weather for them to be able to be in the water too.  Titus loves to fish, so he took every opportunity to throw a line in the water even from the docks on the waterfront.  We went out on our pontoon boat out in the middle of upper Indian on several occasions to just dive or jump off the boat and swim around.   Jonathan found a place on what we call the Rock of Gibralter (because it is a steep rock face with various heights and deep water just below)  for the kids to take a running leap into the air before hitting the water below.  We have a 30 hp Mercury that we only use when Jonathan and hi...

 A friend of ours in Ignace is very interested in all kinds of local vegetation and loves looking around the area for different natural flowers.  He recently told us about some amazing Showy Ladies Slippers that were still blooming nearby.  So we followed his directions to the exact location and were surprised at how big these were.   Such a uniquely gorgeous creation of God.  

  In late June, we had a visit from one of our dearest friends, Sandi Duncan.  We met her at the church we attend in Dryden, ON some years ago and became fast friends.  She has visited our resort on many occasions and really enjoys fishing together.  She moved to Manitoba a year ago from Dryden, so we don't get to see her as often as we used to.   This last visit, she caught the most and the biggest fish of all of us.  She was thrilled when she pulled in this Walleye.  What a beauty!.... the fish too.  :)

  Recently, one of our guests, Josh McDonald decided he would try fishing from shore on the other side of the bridge next to our resort and see if there were any fishing lurking there.  On his second cast, he caught this huge, 42 inch Northern Pike.  He was so excited as he reeled it in.  It was the biggest fish he'd ever caught and on top of that, it was his birthday.  I asked him what bait he was using and he showed it to me.  It was a plastic purple and gold colored fluke about 4 inches long.  He took it home to get it mounted.  Congratulations Josh!!

 It is always exciting and refreshing to get back up to Agimac River Outfitters for the new season to see our guests and do some fun fishing.  As it has been in the states in May and June, it has been lots cooler here this year than last year.   When we first arrived May 8, we noticed that the water level was still about two feet low judging from the water marks on the big rocks in the rapids by our resort.  Everything was dry and needing moisture.  Then the rains began to come and it has not stopped.  We've had a few warm days that hit the low 70's, but then it nose dives at night into the high 30's and low 40's which is quite cool for this time of year.  Totally different from last year. However, folks were still very happy with the fishing on lakes surrounding us as they are generally smaller and shallower than Indian.  I went out fishing on Indian twice with Joanna the middle of May and couldn't even catch a Walleye.  Of course other...