The Boathouse
Left early this morning and headed out to the Reynold’s Boathouse. Dan’s in-laws were kind of enough to allow us to stay at their family retreat for a few days, so this post will last for a few days as it’s a bit of a ‘holiday’ retreat. The Reynold’s boathouse is a beautiful place, right next to a dock connecting to a huge river. It’s quite densely populated, with houses not less then 5 metres surrounding the house. Very clean and very organised, everything is in boxes and categorised. It has everything a holiday house should, including three large beer fridges. As expected, we ran out of beer on the second day and had to make a beer run.
Dan asked for some LS style spag bol (or as Amanda puts it - ghetto style spag bol) so we got the ingredients and cooked up a storm. Not bad with the local ingredients and I have to say I haven’t cooked for eight people before but it turned out quite scrumptious. Speaking of food we tried out smores, it’s a combination of graham biscuits, Hershey chocolate and marshmallows melted all together. We tried and tried again but in the end we were all unimpressed, a little to sugary tasting perhaps.
The boathouse is right on the edge of the thousand island area, where there are over 1,800 islands and lots of little alcoves. Lauren asked the question if thousand island dressing comes from here, and after a little asking it does! In the early 20th century, Sophia LaLonde of Clayton, N.Y., served the dressing at dinner for guests of her husband, who was a popular fishing guide. One of the dinner guests was leading actress May Irwin. It was Irwin who christened the dressing with the Thousand Island name, and the dressing was served by Irwin’s request at the Herald Hotel in Clayton. The actress also introduced the dressing to the wider world when she gave LaLonde’s recipe to the owner of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York City.
The local’s or holiday people are pretty ‘wholesome’ in the area. There was even a family of about twenty or so people singing ‘We are family!’ out loud and proud. Seeing so many happy families in the one place is pretty interesting, I can understand why families would want to spend their time here, it’s a very good family atmosphere.
The only unsavoury thing I’ve found is a huge dead carp near the dock (almost a metre in length) washed up. Not only is a big carp, but also a smelly carp which is not what you want. Dan picked it up with a pitchfork and dumped it next to some boat owned by people he despises. Their boat sure did smell.
Dan has shown us the past few days how to freak out on a three seater jetski with a floating biscuit. As hard as we tried, none of us could hold on to the biscuit for each of our trips. Dan was the only person with the papers to use the jetski, but some how I think he had a great deal of fun throwing us around. Greg would definitely have the prize for the loudest person on the water as he screamed like a piggy as he was being thrown around. There were some spectacular crashes and one of the fun things to try is to be thrown off and skip off the water for a bit, I think I flew twenty metres or so before I bit the dust. Lauren decided she’d keep her feet on the firm ground.
Had a nice camp fire where we chilled out some more and drank more and more beer. We even grabbed Greg’s three million candle torch and pointed it at people in the dark across the bay. Man that torch is really freaking powerful, I think some poor bystanders were temporarily blinded.
All in all it was a great little get a way and I’m very happy that we were able to spend this time with Daniel.
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