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Activities (Indoor/Outdoor)
Entertainment
- Premium package satellite TV with several movie and music channels for
all tastes
- Small AM/FM radios. Component CD & DVD players.
- Small library, playing cards and a variety of board games
- Bird watching: many, many hummingbirds (we’ve seen an albino!) - feeders and
food provided; finches, including beautiful black&yellow american goldfinch & purple
finches, blue jays, chick-a-dees, woodpeckers, nut hatches, warblers, ducks, loons,
etc. Even a stately heron that sometimes visits our dock (must like us as it has
never done it’s deed there yet!)
- Animals: lots and lots of friendly chippies and little red squirrels that
always scurry about and love to be hand-fed unshelled peanuts! Our larger pets are
the raccoon families that come around just as the chipmunks go to bed. For the more
adventurous, they will, ever-so-gently, take pieces of peanut butter sandwiches from
your fingers! More often in summer lately, there are deer on the property. Will you
be lucky enough to see them swimming across the lake? In the other seasons, especially
winter, their numbers increase dramatically. They too love our bird’s sunflower seeds,
and come within a few meters of the cottage to get it! Eventually, deer no longer run
away when they see us! You simply cannot buy these kinds of therapeutic
entertainment!!
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You Just Can't Buy Entertainment Like This! |
- Excellent swimming.
- Non-motorized watercraft: canoe, paddle boat - life jackets provided. Misc
noodles, tubes, fins, masks, snorkels, also provided. 3 recreational kayaks can
also be made available.
- Outside games: badminton with good quality rackets, crocket, bocce, horse
shoes, ball gloves, etc.
- Sunken bonfire pit for your safety and evening entertainment under the stars.
Wood provided – marshmallows not.
- Star gazing: an ever increasing interest in the planets, moons, clusters,
nebulas & constellations. The annual recurring "Perseus" meteor showers are
around mid August – no equipment needed - you only need to sit outside or lay on
the dock to witness this grand spectacle!
Nature Park
“Papineau-Labelle”(provincial) Game Reserve is uninhabited and situated on the
opposite side of the lake. Imagine, you can look across the lake with binoculars
and not see anyone with binoculars looking back at you! There is a "SEPAQ" park
office in Val-des-Bois village (443 Hwy 309) where hiking/fishing and other related
info/maps are available. SEPAQ
website (819)454-2011
Fishing
Lake Trout, Bass, & Pike are the predominant game fish. Licenses are available in
the village.
Horse Back Riding
Locations are within a 20 minute drive.
Golf
Royal Papineau
(819)766-2626: very nice 18 hole public golf course set in a scenic mountain valley.
Reasonable green-fee rates, club rentals, electric carts, driving range.
Fruits and Vegy
In season "UPick" or buy, strawberries, raspberries, and sweet corn from the local
farms.
Autum Colours Visit
The LakeSide properties and the closest mountain are primarily treed with sugar maples
(and some oak) which transform into a spectacular display of fiery autumn colours in
Sept/Oct.
Spring Flower Garden Visit
Yet to be discovered, are the extensive perennial rock gardens, which are in best
bloom from mid-May until mid-June. Imagine winding stone pathways set in 1m wide
rivers of beautiful purple and pink thyme!
Christmas Week & New Years Week at LakeSide
A very different but equally beautiful winter paradise. After the lake is completely
and “solidly” frozen (usually by Christmas), it remains safe to be upon all winter
(about 4 months). It is great for cross-country skiing, skating and snowshoeing – 2 pr
snowshoes provided. The closest “down-hill” ski resorts are
“Mont Cascades” and
“Edelweiss” which are about 45 minutes away in average winter driving time.
"Mont Saint Marie",
the largest Ottawa region resort is about 1.5 hrs away.
"Mont Tremblant", an
International resort, is approximately 2.5 hours drive. Depending on what days
these holidays fall on, we divide this time into 2 one-week rental periods.
We even provide a boxed tree and decorations for you to put up on arrival to
“ratchet up the spirit” and a bottle of wine to “spirit up the ratchet”!
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Winter Bliss |
Touring Ottawa
Being the National Capital, there is of course, a treasure trove of things to see
and do. Detailed information is available at
www.ottawatourism.ca.
To check the Availability of this getaway
click here!
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