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Adventure on a Frozen Island
This is a story of how two seniors spent a winter isolated on an island in the Muskokas, Canada. They were completely alone, waiting for the lake to freeze up. Then the only way out was to travel with a snowmobile across frozen lakes and bush trails.
Read the adventures of overcoming all their problems of firewood, propane, stove oil, gasoline, food and the necessities of life. How to get water from a frozen lake.
There was the problem of the change-over from boat to snowmobile. The race with nature to get the skidoo parked across the lake, the boat in to the boat house and lake freezing only one day later.
While travelling by snowmobile, they dug themselves out of snow banks on the bush trails and dug themselves out of 16" of deep slush on the frozen lake. How could they, miles from their warm cottage get out of the slush, get their machine back on the hard trail and reach safety?
Read about this and many adventures, learning to snowmobile and being able to travel the trails.
Who was sabotaging their four wheel drive truck? Not only did they battle nature, but also a vindictive ex-husband.
Book Review
Today I am reading "January" when the temperature at Mohawk Island reached minus 38n degrees Celsius. Agnes and I don't have the slightest imagination of such low outdoor temperatures. Both of you are writing nice literature about these very difficult circumstances, being always in a good mood and overcoming every set back. I think you two are about heroes. Surprising is that good physical condition apparently you have Vincent, at your age. Dianne, you succeeded very well in describing all your sentimental memories as well as the bad memories. It was lovely the way you wrote the Campbell history. You could have written more about it for my part.
To my opinion it is a joyful disclosure to read about you as two elderly people, who decided to join lives with each other, having so much joy of living and joy of sexuality. Fabulous!!! This looks like a long lasting honeymoon.
We are astonished about your courage. You wrote rather relaxed about all the times you fell off the snowmobile in the snow. It's hard to believe that you never got upset about it, not one time! A spectacular scene was the clearing of a big tree close to the cottage, when Dianne climbed on the roof to throw a rope over a high branch. Very clever writing, we experienced your stress as if we were present at the spot ourselves.
Best wishes to my Canadian friends.
Your friend Eddy Engels, Holland |
