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Long Lake

I like being in the water. Maybe that's why I sometimes take two baths a day (only on bad days, when I really need to).

Baths are more of a winter thing; summer is for swimming. Swimming satisfies me in a way that nothing else does.

In the Yukon, lakes are rarely warm enough for luxurious swims. Here's Bella on one of the warm Long Lake days.



















When I was a kid, I went to the Okanagan every summer. Both sets of grandparents lived there, in a town aptly named Summerland. I could never stay in the water as long as my sister and cousins could; I got cold, blue-lipped and shivery. But I went in and out, diving up and down like a seal, scaring myself with thoughts of things underwater, floating and doing handstands and running out splashing to lie goose-fleshed on my towel in the heat.

I miss all that, living here.

But right now I am getting to swim lots in Long Lake and it is making things better. Tonight I went alone, at 11 at night, and jumped in quick in the almost dark.















(I wore my fine jewelry for a Long Lake picnic on Solstice this year).

This summer has been warm and swimmy.