Today we visited Andrewsville, a good place for swimming, exploring, and the like. It’s not far from Nicholsons Locks, which are part of the Rideau Canal Waterway (between Ottawa and Kingston).

Other more biologically inclined members of the day’s party had scientific pursuits, inspecting the zebra mussel population (and lamenting its effect on native unionids). To their credit, the mussels do help to keep the water relatively clean…

Yesterday was fishing at Charleston Lake, where — between the three of us — we caught about 70 fish. This was apparently a mediocre take, as I’m told that some nights you can get almost 200 in only two hours! Now, they’re sunfish mostly, but a few perch too – and when they’re cleaned, you can get bite or two of perfectly good meat. We caught a number of bass, but threw them back on account of them not being much good for eating.