The North Door

We went camping for two nights on Pelee Island (on the 11th and 12th of May), and were the only people to pitch a tent at Dick's Campground on the south shore. We did not see any other people camping with a tent on our drive around the island.

The weather was good enough for us to enjoy our stay there. At the north-east corner of the island (Lighthouse Point), the south-west corner (Fish Point), and the south-east corner (Stone Road Alvar), we walked through the nature reserves full of flowers, birds, and other little creatures such as frogs, turtles, squirrels, and snakes. Plenty of fish jumped above the water surface on Lake Erie. We left Saturday morning at 8 AM.

I later discovered that the writers Margaret Atwood and her husband, Graeme Gibson, own property on the island. Both are very active in naturist causes. Gibson has recently published The Bedside Book of Birds (2005).

A poster announced that David Suzuki (introduced by Margaret Atwood) was giving a talk that night (12th of May) at a banquet ("Singsong, A Celebration of Birds and Birding") at 8 PM at the Pelee Island Winery Pavilion, but we did not stay. I wondered if we might meet him coming over on the ferry in the morning as we were leaving. But one of the crew members of the MV Jiimaan said that she did not think he had been on board. She suggested that he might have flown over to the island.


some links:
http://www.pelee.com
http://www.pelee.org/
http://www.owtoad.com/ - Atwood's page
http://www.davidsuzuki.org/