Simple Pleasures (6)

OK! You caught me! I said I’d move on from these posts last week but I have one more to do. This coincides with the last week of summer, so I figure it’s fair game.

Next week’s post will be writing-related and it was inspired by a guilty pleasure – stay tuned for that …

This week we look at Simcoe Island. Also a place which might make an appearance in a future work, also affordable ($1 each for the ferry).

It started as a bike ride:

As you can see, not a too-long bike ride – just a pleasant one.

Then we got on a much-smaller ferry than the Wolfe Islander III. This is a three-car cable ferry (so they tell me, but I think they’d have to be small cars) which crosses the Bateau Channel from Wolfe to Simcoe Island.

The view out to Lake Ontario is beautiful.

We had a destination on Simcoe – it was a buried house! It’s built under a hill. Isn’t it great?

That was the front and this is the back. It’s very light inside – you can see right through.

And this is the “roof”. We climbed it and enjoyed the view from up top. Apparently cows have been found grazing up here.

We had a fantastic ride to Simcoe and, other than $4 for the ferry, it only cost us our own muscle power.

I’m convinced it’s doing stuff like this that keeps the writing juices flowing!