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We did a lot of things with the Bezewskis, including a vacation to Sandy Pond in update New York every August. We stayed in cabins that had no heat or hot water, but were close to the pond and the Wigwam Hotel for nighttime entertainment. Dad & Mom loved to fish. They would go out at dawn and again before dusk, fishing for pike and bass. Today's photos are of a day's catch.
Mom would clean the fish, wrap them in newspaper and bring them to the hotel freezer. At the end of each vacation we'd collect the frozen fish and put them in a cooler for the 8 hour drive home. They always made it fine and we had fish dinners for months.I learned to bait a hook and fish too. If I didn't go out on the boat with them, I fished off the dock for sunnies and perch. Whatever I caught, I had to clean, so I learned to do that too. I don't know if I would remember how anymore, since it's been a over 40 years since I had to clean a fish.
email from Janet:
ReplyDelete"Gail was as old as Kenny and I. When we were younger we used to hang out with Gail at Sandy Pond. There seemed to be several families that always came the same weeks we did. I remember a family from Binghamton, NY was there too with their 2 daughters. Plus the son and daughter of the Wigwam Hotel. They were all around our age. We all got along pretty well. There were about 6 or 8 cabins, plus the hotel. The cabins where very small. Barely fit a double bed in each of the two bedrooms and the kitchen was just big enough to fit a small table, small stove and sink. Really not much room to turn around. Trying to remember if it had a bathroom inside or not. The hotel had a dining room, bar and lounge down stairs and several bare basic rooms upstairs. (we stayed in one of those after I was married and I'll tell you, they sure were small and basic, with squeaky wood floors. Like you would expect in an old western. Only had one bathroom upstairs to share with all the other rooms) So we would either take a boat across the pond over to Lake Ontario (which was only seperated by a sand bar reef) or we would walk or get a ride around the side of the Pond (which is 3 miles across) to the sand bar and go swimming in Lake Ontario. The owner's son had his own boat, so we did have motorized boat transportation too. Besides the little fishing boats.
The area by our hotel really wasn't that great for swimming. Sometimes we would walk over to the "Hotel" about a 1/4 mile away and go swimming from their beach. It had a nice sandy bottom by the shore.
One of the nice things we did was lay out on the wood picnic tables or the huge lawn in the evening and just look up at all the stars and watch the meteor showers. You could guess we usually were there in August. Took me a long time to realize that we used to watch one of the famous meteor showers that occurs every year around the same time. I am guessing but I think it is the Pleiades."
OK, Sandy Pond may deserve at least one more post next weekend. There are so many memories there. I will say that I'm pretty sure the tiny little cabins did have indoor plumbing. I know I would remember if we had to go out to an outhouse. Over the years we found better cottages to rent, but that was when it was just Dad, Mom & me.
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