Compliments of a good friend here at JPL, Sarah and I got a free canoe rental and decided to cool off in the 30 degree heat by pottering around Lac Beauvert.
The water looks incredible, so clear and colourful that it didnt look real. Sadly, things like that tend to bring to mind videogames to me, so I looked at how fantastic the water looked and thought of the fancy-pants DX10 water of Crysis. Sad but true.
Lac Beauvert is essentially a big bowl of ice-water, so while the water looks incredibly inviting as you swelter under the noon-day sun, its actually bloody freezing cold.
Perhaps the most incredible thing about our brief time on the lake was the visit of a pair of loons. We've been camping many times, Sarah and me, and Loons have always been, to me, the sound of the dusk and dawn and stolen glimpses of dots on the horizon. Evidently the loons around here are quite accustomed to the presence of people, they glided singing by our boat with little caution, only diving under the water when it looked like we might collide. The clarity of the water meant that we could see them swimming, an impossible sight in the murky lakes of Ontario, and an incredible one.
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