Day 12 - Canadian Police and Airborne

Five boats deep, we cruised over to Leak Island again to swim and jump. Andrew and Gil were interested to see the big cliff I found, so we set out to find it. The cliff overlooks a beautiful deep spot in the river. I had yet to jump it, so I dove in and swam for shore. I quickly climbed to the top and stared down. It was definitely a big jump. The cliff is slightly overhanging and falls into water fifteen to twenty feet deep. I jumped off and felt the sting on my arms when I hit the water. I left them out a bit, so I would not go so deep on the first jump just in case.

I came up to the surface and Gil was already climbing and Andrew was in the water. I swam back toward shore, and suddenly Andrew jumped in and was swimming back to the boat.

'Police'.

We climbed into Andrew's boat and Gil was standing ready to jump. We heard the police on the horn.

'Sir, you're going to have to climb down from there please'.

Luckily, they were not too interested in us, just making sure we were not on private property. Nevertheless, we were in Canadian waters and Kerry and I had not checked into Canada yet. If they run your numbers and they want to, they will impound your boat and slap you with a massive fine.

We lucked out. We are heading into Canada tomorrow to check in with our passports. We spent the rest of the afternoon jumping off the rope swing at Cement Point.

We cruised back to Rockledge in the evening and Evan and Alex were biking out to the airstrip on the island to go up in Al's plane. I decided to ride my bike out to the airstrip to watch them land. The airstrip is just a field that a farmer mows with a windsock in it. They came in over the trees and landed smoothly.

They motored up and Uncle Alex offered me a ride as well. It was a great surprise and I took him up on the offer. I was a bit nervous taking off in such a small plane, but once we were up it was unbelievably beautiful. The sun was setting and the bird's eye view of the islands was incredible. We saw Rockledge, the Acorn and the Farm Cottage, as well as Wolf Island, Beauvais Point, Wellesley Island and Lake of the Isles. I even had the chance to take over the controls for a brief moment.

Great day!