Lake Duluti

Our dear friends Tony and Ann Porter from South Africa recommended that we take a trip to a place called Lake Duluti, for a day out, while our Swedish friend Anna Sanberg was here visiting with us. We had heard of the place, but we didn’t know where it was or anything else about it.

We found out that it was quite an easy place to reach and struck out for our destination one warm Saturday afternoon in January, the warmest month here.

When we arrived, we found that there was a nominal entrance fee, which seemed to be promising. As we entered, we saw a bar playing noisy music, right there on the bank of the beautiful tree-lined lake. How relieved we were when we found out that we could rent a rowing boat for our party for a few dollars. We bought some cokes and clambered aboard the boat. Since there were no seats in the boat, the staff had taken some plastic garden chairs (the kind you see literally everywhere around here) and hacked the legs off them. Then they are placed on the flat ‘deck’ of the boat – perfect!

 

Once you are out of earshot of the bar, the lake is tranquil and beautiful. We quietly rowed all around the lake, taking in the sunshine and the extraordinary variety of bird life. There are diving birds and storks and herons and other birds, either enjoying the sunshine, drying their wings, or actively engaged in hunting down a tasty tilapia or bass.

We were quite sorry to have to head home after so little time, but we loved it so much there that we went back a few weeks later. a perfectly relaxing way to spend a sunny afternoon.