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Muskoka misty sunrise over Gull Lake
An early morning sunrise viewed from Tuktawayin is a sight to behold. You might be curled up in your pj’s in the Muskoka Room, doing the crossword puzzle at the breakfast table or lounging on the dock. No matter…the view is the same.
It’s a special time of the day when you rarely encounter anyone else and you feel like the whole world is yours. You can’t help but connect with the earth and be grateful for so many things.
For me this beautiful, wondrous sight is usually what instills in me the need to get onto the water, where I love to start to my day if the conditions are right, such as they were the day I took this photo late in May. When I see this from my bedroom window I know the conditions are perfect for rowing and I quickly get my act together and get down to the dock with my oars. Getting out on to the water is for me, excuse the pun, very grounding. My whole body sighs with gratitude as I take those first few strokes with the oars. I feel the same thing when I step off a road and onto a trail while hiking or walking. It’s like entering another world, a dream world. No traffic or noise. Just complete simplicity. Me and the water or me and the earth.
You too can enjoy this from Tuktawayin. If you are a paddler you can take out the canoe and explore Gull Lake. Paddle across the lake to where it flows out of Gull Lake on its path to Lake Muskoka. This is not a navigable waterway but there is a wonderful bay well worth “putzing” around. You might spot the local otter, scare up a beaver, startle a few turtles off their logs or see a Great Blue Heron on an early morning fishing expedition. There is a family ducks and two families of Canada Geese, all with babies at this time of year of course, cruising the lake every day.
