Re: Where are the lakes of yesteryear?


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Posted by Jon on September 07, 1998 at 01:27:52:

In Reply to: Re: Where are the lakes of yesteryear? posted by Gordon on September 06, 1998 at 17:56:57:

I think what Spencer has so ably articulated for so many of us is not a patronizing approach to the locals, but the quest for a place where we won't be run over by the "Hullabaloos" on their motorboats and jetskis, but we can come to meet the permanent residents on their own terms. My aunt, and since her death, her heir my sister, have achieved this in a small Nova Scotia fishing village, where they were/are able to form friendships with the "natives" over an extended period of time (the family has been able to follow the ups and downs over the past 30 years, easing things somewhat by their permanent (vacationing, property owners) presence. I can remember our launching my father's sailboat and then being taken around the harbour for a sail in the fog by a (very drunk, as I recall) ancient mariner, eating lobster or herring fresh from the sea, or visiting the abandoned fishing village across the harbour (on an island, so when the road went in in the '60s, it was left out). All in all, an area where you can meet the locals and be seen not as a source of revenue, but as someone who appreciates the area, the inhabitants, and their way of life.

I'm not implying that e.g. the Lakes District residents view tourists primarily as a source of income; I think what this thread was started as was a quest for places where we can go and not have to be tourists, staying in campgrounds or marinas, crossing anchor lines whenever the wind shifts, dodging water-skiers and their boats, and worrying about whether the hullabaloos bearing down on us have any concept of the rules of the road.



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