The Kootenay Lake Millpond

Summer arrived in earnest a few days ago so we decided to take one particularly hot, calm afternoon and canoe over to the other side of the Lake, absorb some infra-red radiation, generate some Vitamin D, have a little fire on the beach, roast some hot dogs and paddle back home.

This is a view back towards town from across the Lake. There are many days when this big lake is just like a millpond - a 60-mile-long lake of flat, calm water.

The east side of the Lake is very interesting to paddle along. Very interesting shoreline with very nice rock cliffs that you can get right next to. Our destination was Campbell Bay which we see regularly from the west side of the Lake but had never paddled over to see.

The paddle back across the Lake wasn't quite as calm since a small breeze had started, but nothing alarming.