| lakeside@magma.ca | One hour from Ottawa |
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.
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Very Stable "recreational" Kayaks
Easy and Fun
for all ages |
- 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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