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Introduction
This
website contains pictures taken during the John and Pat Dickinson extended
family Houseboat Adventure in August of 2006.
We rented a houseboat on Lake Vermilion from Lake Vermilion
Houseboats near Tower, MN for a family adventure August 14 –18,
2006. We were fortunate in that all of
our children and grandchildren could make the trip with us.
In
addition to more food and drink than we could possibly consume in twice the
time we were there, we took along one of our canoes that we stored on the upper
observation deck of the houseboat when not in use. We also rented a fishing boat that we towed behind the houseboat
when not in use and on one of the days, we rented a water skiing boat for the
day.
On one day
we broke up into three groups, one group used the portage service and portaged
into Trout Lake with the fishing boat.
The second group took the canoe and portaged into Trout Lake via the
canoe portage and the third group held down the fort at the houseboat. Each evening, we would motor to a new site
to dock the houseboat for the evening and fish the new area.
We did
manage to catch a few fish. Although
none were extraordinarily large, we caught Walleye, Northern Pike, Perch and
quite a few Smallmouth Bass. We even
managed to catch a few crayfish.
We had a
fun but tiring day water skiing. The
water slide on the houseboat got a good work out too. The weather was cooperative and we enjoyed the challenge of
driving and navigating the houseboat.
Everyone who wanted, got a turn being “captain” at the helm.
Everyone had a great time and it
was an interesting experience to vacation on a houseboat.
An
assortment of the pictures that we took on our trip are grouped
in various topics. Use this link to access the Topic Menu.
From the Topic Menu, thumbnails of each picture are provided to use as
poke points to access an expanded view of that picture. Use your browser’s forward and back buttons
to navigate through the pictures and return to this page.
If you
wish to contact us you may do so using the contact information below. We enjoy answering any questions you may
have about our trip. We also enjoy
hearing about trips that you may have taken.
John and
Pat Dickinson jrdpad@aol.com
Last
revised: October 2006