Welcome to Little Gull Marina!

Halloween was here and then it was gone. The water was here and then it was gone! Even with the torrential downpours of Friday night the water level is a tad on the low side. Needless to say I haven’t been back because the weather person has kept us very busy trying to put all the toys to bed. Trying to keep them dry, happy and content(boats and employees) has been a challenge the last few weeks but we have perservered and I think we are definitely the winning team in the home-stretch!! We are now in to November hours and that means 9-4 Monday to Saturday(we are still working just not dealing with phones or drive-bys!) This ensures we get the rest of the boats to bed in time and as it now will be dark by 5-ish we need to make sure we can run un-interrupted for a few minutes each day to succeed!!We are closed Sundays until the Snowmobile club says the trails are officially open. We are also closed the week of Nov.9-13th for inventory and year end stuff! Today was an absolutely gorgeous day out on the water with a shallow draft boat. The critters are everywhere. Deer standing on the shoreline, loons grouching about their end of summer and the muskrats busy building winter homes. It is a great time of year up here but Saturday’s weather made it seem like a good day to watch the fire and see the leaves blow by! We just take the good days with the less than good days and consider ourselves lucky to enjoy them from here as opposed to the alternative. Have a great week and well you know the routine, I will be back when the time comes!

Thanksgiving, here we come. The final countdown to the traditional summer-ending weekend. It looks like the forecast is not even going to let us down with the weather that seems to be normal for the last few Thanksgiving weekends here in Ontario. The water level is continuing to decline and well I don’t have to tell anyone about the weather the last week. Today, with the winds, it was a tad bit wavy on the lakes to say the least. Add the monsoon rain from time to time(hmmmm, most of the day!!) and it felt like Mother Nature was just trying to put a fitting close to the summer that started in late August/early September. We have, as usual been putting lots of boats to bed and trying to keep ourselves dry. (not very successful on that front.) We are looking forward to seeing lots of faces over the weekend to enjoy the weather whatever it may bring. Remember, the last few weekends the weather person hasn’t been totally right and we have seen some nice days. The snow in the forecast seems a touch early but well I guess it is October. The west can’t have it all and not share!! If you are trying to decide about shutting down the water or not the forecast is suggesting -4 for next Tuesday so that might help with the decision. Have a great end of the week and we’ll see everyone soon!

Well, the weather wasn’t totally as predicted and Sunday afternoon was not too bad at all. The lake level is dropping fast so lots of people were out enjoying the water while it is still here. Even the leaves are starting to fall. It looks like next weekend will be the weekend to enjoy the height of the fall colours. There was a few people even trying to get their docks and boats moved out to prevent the boat being fully out of the water.(trust me, been there done that, not fun!!) The forecast for the next couple of days isn’t pretty but it is looking nice for the end of the week.We hope all the kids are enjoying the back to school thing and are getting out enjoying the fall as much as possible. Have a great week and we will see everyone out enjoying the end of summer over the next couple of weeks counting down to Thanksgiving!