Chance : Making friends at the lake

Hey it is me!!  Chance!!  The most handsome blogging Border Collie ever!

I got to go to the lake, with all my sisters kids.  While I was there I met lots of other dogs.

This was the first dog I met, an older Golden Retriever.  He was pretty cool, but he was fish obsessed.  He kept dunking his head under the water looking for fish.

Then there is Riley who lives on Star Island.  I have met him before.

Riley is stick obsessed.  He fetches them just fine and then takes off with them and chews them up.

Look at how far that dog will go after a stick.  Far Side actually got the stick in the air..how cool is that?

My sisters husband is just about ready to get that ball for me as I am belly deep already.  The blip in the distance is Far Guy out on the kayak.

This is at Lake Windigo..this is a spring fed lake on Star Island.  Star Island is totally surrounded by Cass Lake which is a river feed lake.  This is the only lake within a lake in the Northern Hemisphere.  The water was very calm on Lake Windigo.

I was the coolest dog on the lake that day.  When I got home I needed a really long nap:)

Lake Windego

Yesterday we took Adam to meet up with his parents and his brother.  We kidnapped the grand-girls on the way and took off to Cass Lake.   Cass Lake has a number of islands.   One of them is called Star Island.  Inside the confines of Star Island is a spring fed lake called Lake Windigo.  Windigo is an Objbwe mythical creature with burning feet that could posses people and inspire cannibalism, Far Guy used to tell the girls this story around the campfire late at night when we were camping..it used to be accompanied with much squealing and them moving closer to me for safety.  Anyway Lake Windego is the ONLY lake in the Northern Hemisphere that is a spring fed lake enclosed by an island that is totally surrounded by a river fed lake.  Kinda cool. Should it ever be one of those trivia questions for a million dollars..remember where you heard it!

 Chance is pointing the way to Star Island.

We went ashore and had sandwiches for lunch and walked down to a pathway that went over to Lake Windego. 

 Lake Windego, Noah and Paige are teeny tiny specks in the distance. 

The kids and the dogs played there for quite some time, it is a very shallow lake..you can walk all the way across some parts of it.  Noah and Paige gave it a good try.  They were way too far away for my liking..finally Andy went out with them.  When they finally returned I was greatly relieved.  Jen kept saying "Mother they are fine, for goodness sakes they can stand up."  Well I guess they could ..but it didn't seem like it could be possible to me.  The shoreline is very abrupt on this lake, it goes from lake to a poision ivy filled shoreline  just like that..people were stacked up on chairs in the walkway.  Some people had their chairs sitting in the lake.

On the way back I stopped to take some photos in the walkway between the two lakes.

 Looking toward Lake Windego.

 Looking toward Cass Lake.

The kids went fishing..and Little Elvis had a nap.  It was a beautiful day to spend on the lake, it could have been less windy for Far Guy.  His short sleeved hooded sweatshirt was a blessing. It helped to keep the wind off of his face.   I took tons of photos.. the kids had a blast:)