Welcome to Little Gull Marina!

How do you describe the weekend other than the May long weekend!! It was the usual mixed bag of weather that is for sure. The week leading up to it was the same and luckily the winds weren’t as bad as Thursday but nonetheless it was the usual “what follows two days of bad weather?, Monday! Hopefully, regardless of weather, everyone enjoyed their first big weekend away from the city and made the best of it at the cottage. The critters weren’t out in full force like usual so I guess we will be left to feed them ourselves this week when the temps start to warm up. The picture today is of the lake conditions on Sunday. There was a little bit of wave action on the big lakes to say the least. We enjoyed seeing everyone up enjoying the area (not the weather!) With the short week ahead we will continue to keep putting all the toys back on to their home docks for the masses to start enjoying the lakes again. If you have an extra dock hanging around please contact Sally so she can add it to the list and hopefully find it the owner to come and retrieve it. With all the high winds and high water they are ending up in the strangest destinations and we have a number of folks missing their perches for chairs, boats etc. to enjoy the view! Have a great short week and we’ll keep the night candles burning to ensure the toys end up at home soon!

Busy, busy, busy!! Between the weather and huge amount of boats we are trying to get in to the water there is no sleeping lately. The weather has been co-operating a little but the little critters haven’t! They are in good numbers late in the day because of the temps at night. I think they are hibernating until about mid-day. The water level has come up again and I am sure with tonight’s forecast it will rise again. We are looking at a fairly wet day tomorrow and another on Saturday so it shall be interesting to say the least. With temps in the evenings around the freezing mark late in the weekend it reminds me of (hmmmmm, May!). We are trying to get all the toys in on time but needless to say weather is playing a huge part in the process so be patient. The toy will arrive when we can get it there. It is always interesting trying to slalom through the docks, picnic tables etc. floating down the lake on 3 foot swells some days to get the boat back safely to it’s home. We are looking forward to seeing everyone up enjoying what the weather does or doesn’t do this weekend so stop by and at least get out of the weather if necessary. Last word was the newspapers should be showing up again as of Saturday. We hope everyone has a great week, safe drive up and better weather than the guy in the sky is forecasting!

Wow, the ice left and it has been crazy here since. We have alot of boats in and alot more to go. Thankfully, the trilliums came out a couple of days ago and so did the blackflies!!Haha! They are starting to bite today and being their usual friendly selves. The weather looks like it might keep them hidden this weekend but we will see. For those trying to travel North of Pencil Lake Rd. the 507 is closed for a few days just south of Salmon Lake Rd. The highway developed a big sink section when a beaver dam let go a few days ago. They are in the process of trying to re-construct the road and have closed it until further notice. Our hours for May have changed to seven days a week and 8-5. If you haven’t contacted Sally by now about the boat for the long weekend it would be safe to say you won’t be seeing it!! The list is long and not really able to be compromised at this point. If you haven’t received a reply to your emails then that means we didn’t get them!!! The trees have started to let their leaves come out and the grass is starting to grow so be ready for the gardens and the mowing. A chance of frost again in the forecast so be careful about bringing too many flowers up until the forecast looks a little warmer for next week. Have a great week and we look forward to seeing everyone soon!