2009 Newsletter

Our latest newsletter is now ready to download. Read the highlights from last year, see new offerings for this year including our new Adventurers Discount below, check whether you or your friends released the largest Walleye and Northern Pike last year or were winners in our Catch & Release Fishing draw.

Adventurers Discount

Bring Your Own Canoes and Kayaks
on your Canadian Wilderness Adventure Vacation in Ontario Canada

We have canoes and kayaks at our resort that are free to use by all of our guests. Many people however prefer to explore our wilderness with their own canoes and kayaks. To encourage you to bring your own canoes and kayaks on your vacation, and largely offset the freight fees on the Algoma Central Railway, we are now offering an Adventurers Discount. Bring your own Canoes and Kayaks on your vacation with us for these credits:

• Each 2 person Canoe or Kayak - $20/day Credit
• Each single person Canoe or Kayak - $10/day Credit
• Note: Shipping of Canoes and Kayaks on the train from Hawk Junction is $76 CDN Round Trip (approx $63 US)

Child/Youth Discounts

Many of our guests have been vacationing with us for generations and we provide child and youth discounts to make family vacations economically easier for parents. We have now extended these discounts to cover 17 year olds. This discount still applies in families or groups where there are at least 2 adults in the party for each boat provided.

Last Year's Fishing and our Catch and Release Fishing Awards from 2008

See who caught and released the largest Walleye and Northern Pike at our Canadian Fishing resort last year. See if you or your friends won discounts on your next fishing vacation at our resort in Northern Ontario Canada.

Enter the Great Ontario Canada Outdoor Adventure of a Lifetime Contest

We are proud to be a major partner in the Great Ontario Outdoor Adventure of a Lifetime Contest. You could win a free vacation for 4 people enjoying the best of our Algoma Vacation Region and the north shore of Lake superior hosted by Gary and Joanie McGuffin, the famous photo jounalist adventurerers of Ontario Canada. The first 2 days of this great adventure will be at our resort enjoying wildlife and fishing while relaxing in our wilderness comfort.

We recently registered our resort with TripAdvisor, one of the best sites on the interenet where people can tell other people about their experiences at vacation destinations, good or bad. If any of our customers would like to write a review about their vacation here please click this link, Trip Advisor-Errington's Wilderness Island Resort, or the Trip Advisor Logo. For those of you who would like to read reviews about our resort, this registration only became active August 16, 2006 so it make take a little while for reviews to come in but, please click on the same link Trip Advisor-Errington's Wilderness Island Resort and see how much our guests have enjoyed their vacations with us.

Thank You - Al & Doris Errington

Hello everyone
Stargazing season is starting here again on Lake Wabatongushi. Generally in June and July we don't do as much star gazing and looking for the northern lights because our days are so long up here we have to stay up too late. It is starting to get dark around 9:30-10:00 pm now. Last night we had some northern lights although the moon was full and washed them out a bit. This weekend we are going to stay up each clear night because the Perseids meteor showers are one of the most spectacular night events of the year. During the Perseids meteor you can see 50-100 meteors per hour. The Perseids Meteor shower is a yearly event from late July to mid August and the peak this year is the night of Friday August 12th. The moon will be just past full which will make it a little more difficult to see the fainter meteorites, but we will be staying up to see the show anyway. If you are not here but you have a clear sky to look at, the Perseids meteor shower should be towards the northeast.

Have fun
Al, Doris, Devin & Morgan Errington
and everyone here at
Errington's Wilderness Island Resort
http://www.WildernessIsland.com

2006 is a Walleye and Wildlife Babies Year

Besides the beautiful weather this year we have really been enjoying more than usual Baby Bears, Moose and Loons and we have had more than usual large Walleyes released caught and released this year.

The last few weeks we have had a significant number of large Walleyes released including a 33inch Walleye, a 30 inch walleye, and a number of 27 to 29 inch walleyes. It has been really great and we thank the conservation efforts of our guests in ensuring these large Walleyes continue to spawn and enhance Lake Wabatongushi's great fishing. So far Rocky Puska has released the largest Walleye of 2006 with the 33 inch walleye they released in late June. Rocky says he could not have done it withouth the able assistance of Alan Beamer on the net. Jean Vickers released the beautiful 29 inch walleye she is holding in the picture at right.

We have had more baby moose around this year than we have seen in quite a number of years. We feel there are at least 10 calf moose in and around the north end of Lake Wabatongushi where our resort is. The picture of the Cow moose with calf at right was taken by Jerry Urbaniak a few days ago. The calves are already geting quite a bit bigger considering they were born in late May to early June. We also have a few female Blakc Bears with cubs like the ones photographed by Pay Moylan above.

This summer has been warm so the swimming raft we built last year has been used quite a bit. It makes agret place for a refreshing break on a warm afternoon.

Well we hope you all are having a great summer.

Sincerely Al, doris, Devin and Morgan Errington

and the staff at

Errington's Wilderness Island Resort

Our Loon Call is backon our main page and entrance page. Just click on the small loon or the play button. We took our loon call off our website quite a few years ago because it interfered with loading the webpages and took a long time at the connection sppeds available 7-8 years ago. A sound file doesn't make any real difference in download times now so we felt it was time to put it back on. Let us know what you think.

Al & Doris Errington

Hello Everyone,

Well we have been open a week now and although it was a little cold last Sunday it was a beautiful week. The Walleyes spawned early and are biting well. We had some great shore lunches for our guests this week. Fresh Walleye is so good. Although this is not peak Northern Pike or Perch time, there are a good number of Northern Pike coming in and some large perch are being caught with the Walleyes. Usually the Walleyes are still coming out of the rivers from spawning this time of year but they have already moved out to the shoals and drop offs.

So far there are two mother bears at Bear Point where we leave the fish carcasses and food waste for them. One Bear has two ubs and the other has 3 cubs. The cubs are almost the size of basketballs right now and are still nursing. We have seen a number of moose around but no calves yet.

The Walleye and Northern Pike hatched a week or so earlier than usual this year. We are seeing large clouds of Walleye fry (newly hatched Walleye) swimming under the surface eating zooplankton. They are already about 1/2"/1cm long. Walleyes lay lots of eggs because about 90% of Walleye fry that hatch are eaten in the first year by larger fish, including older Walleyes that survived their first year. Devin and Morgan netted about 100 to raise in their aquarium. The Walleye fry are pictured at left and you can see a larger picture ofthem if you click on the picture. Walleye fry that survive should grow to approximately 2.5"/5 cm by this fall.

Devin netted a Northern Pike fry for their aquarium again this year. It was about 5/8"/1.5cm when he caught it about 1-1/2 weeks ago. It ate a lot of zooplankton, small insects and freshwater shrimp and is now 1-1/2"/3cm long. Northern PPike grow fast and it should be 6"-10"/15-25cm long by September. He is starting to eat some of the Walleye fry and should be eating small minnows in the next couple of weeks.

We have seen Bald Eagles and Loons nesting already and they should be hatchin in late June to early July.

Well we hope all of you are doing well and hope to see you sometime this summer.

Take sare of yourselves

Al, Doris, Devin and Morgan Errington
and all the staff at
Errington's Wilderness Island Resort

Emmy award winning video journalist Byron Goggins, visited our resort last summer and produced a great 1/2 hour program for his hit Television show Wild Weekend. It featuring our resort and the Algoma Central Railway. You can see a 4-1/2 minute exerpt from his show on his website at www.wildweekendtv.com/adv_video_featured.asp?id=196 and order DVD 6A-5. Copies of Byron's programs are $15.ºº US each.
For information on the cable channels where you can watch Wild Weekend, featuring the adventures of Byron Goggins, and his new radio program, you can visit his website at:

Happy Easter Everyone

It has been a beautiful spring up here with nice warm weather. We hope you all have been able to enjoy it too. We hope this weather continues into another beautiful warm summer like we had last year.

A couple of notes for everyone:

Ann Egan won the Titus trophy by releasing the largest Northern Pike last year at 40-1/2 inches. James Pett's Sr won the Gentle Fisherman Award for releasing the largest Walleye at 29 inches. We have all of our last years Catch and Release winners posted in our website at http://www.WildernessIsland.com/CanadaFishingVacations/fishing2005.html.

The Ontario government has changed the 7-day fishing license to an 8-day fishing license so people visiting on a week long vacation can fish both the day they arrive and the day they depart. Other than that there are no fishing regulation changes this year.

Our children, Devin and Morgan, are now maintaining their own page in our website. They decided to take things into their own hands in regard to attracting more children and families to our resort. You can check out their page at http://www.WildernessIsland.com/KidClub/index.html.

We are also working on something new for all you people who have been taking photographs over the years, our own photo contest. We will have prizes in 4-6 categories as well as random draw prizes for people who sign up as judges. We are still putting the finishing touches on the photo contest website but hope to have it ready in the next few weeks. The first year it will be open for all past guest of our resort from any year. So get out all those old photos and start going through them. Any photo you enter will have to be uploaded from a computer so some of you may have get your photos scanned at a local photo store. As soon as the website is ready I will let everyone know the details.

Have a Great Weekend

Al, Doris, Devin and Morgan Errington
And all the Staff at
Errington's Wilderness Island Resort
http://www.WildernessIsland.com 

Errington's
Wilderness Island

Lake Wabatongushi * Ontario * Canada

www.WildernessIsland.com