Welcome to The Cottage Chronicles
I’m Rob Dares, and this is my blog…It’s essentially about cottages and camps, but it isn’t always about cottages and camps, sometimes it’s about darn near anything that catches my eye.
Check out the categories/topics listed in the sidebar to your right. You will find most posts catagorized to make it easier for you to find what you are looking for.
Sometimes it’s a place for me to rant a bit, and sometimes it’s a desperate attempt at making you laugh.
I’ve taken advantage of blogging to be able to have an opportunity to tell you all about my cottage life, and hopefully help you with yours. I love reading about your experiences at the cottage, or camping or boating or anything else in the great outdoors.
My own camp is on the shore of Lake Charlotte, one of the bigger lakes in Nova Scotia, Canada, at about 12 miles long. It’s been our home away from home since I was a little tyke of about 2 years old.
Now, 50 years later, I am passing on what I have learned about the camp, my experiences, observations, and hopefully some laughs along the way.
I started writing The Cottage Chronicles in sometime in 2007 and have enjoyed every minute of it.
Well…I have stuck with it, mainly because I have met some fantastic folks along the way, readers, fellow bloggers and internet web hosting site folks, it’s always a pleasure.
I love the outdoors and in particular fishing and hunting, particularly fly fishing for atlantic salmon, although I mostly do both just for an excuse to get outdoors.
I live with the love of my life, Wendy in Nova Scotia, Canada. I have two other women in my life, my two daughters, and my stepson, who provide me with unending love and support everyday.
I hope you will join us regularly for updates and please, feel free to comment on anything you see here on thecottagechronicles.com.
If you want to contact me with a question, or to tell me about your own particular cottage life, email to rdares at hotmail dot ca. I have written the address that way to confuse the spammers…..
Our Correspondents
Lonesome Larry is our New Brunswick Correspondent, as well as being a skilled outdoorsman, hunter, fisherman, cottager, blog researcher, joke teller and spirit imbibler and part-time cottage campfire arsonist. He’s also a great man around hunting dogs, particularly retrievers, he knows his dogs, very well.
Larry can be counted on for some great color commentary here on The Cottage Chronicles, which is often a welcome addition to this otherwise pathetic attempt at online entertainment and information for cottagers and others with too much time on their hands. Lonesome Larry, together with his sidekick, another correspondent, “Alleghany Al” are excellent sources of information and color commentary here at the Cottage. Alleghany Al and Larry get themselves into some situations from time to time that have to be read to be believed. For example, read about their adventures helping the neighbor get her cat out of a tree and another favorite, their Moose Hunting Adventure
Here’s a recent, albeit foggy picture of Lonesome Larry posing in his best pair of chest waders beside Christmas present he bought his wife, who we call Gorgeous Gwen of The Lake, for Christmas. I think this explains why we call him “lonesome” and why he knows so much about dogs, Lonesome Larry spends a lot of time in the dog house !!!
Here’s Alleghany Al demonstrating his off road four-wheeling skills…
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