Yesterday I found myself on three different lakes in Muskoka. Lucky me. My morning started on Brandy Lake in Port Carling, then I travelled to Lake Muskoka and by the end of the day I was on McKay Lake in Bracebridge. We are so lucky here in Muskoka to have so much water around us. I think most of us take it for granted. As an appraiser and a real estate agent, I see things through a different lense than most. Yesterday, as I stood on a hard sand beach looking out at the morning sun on Brandy Lake, I tried to shed that analytical mind of mine that’s always looking at exposure, frontage, view, topography – and just breath it in and enjoy. I love my job. Who else gets to visit three lakes in a day and call it work! But my analytical mind can’t rest for long. I started to think about the different people that certain lakes attract – and they do. Just hearing a lake name will bring to mind a certain “type”. Now of course there are exceptions to every rule, but here in Muskoka it really seems to be true. People either want to be on the “Big Lakes” or the absolutely DO NOT. Some want the smaller lakes, but still be close to the big lake action, and others want to be far away from it all. Where ever you are, they are all beautiful. Muskoka and it’s lakes are an amazing resource for us. Their towering pines, granite rock outcroppings and varied terrain are one of a kind, and their beauty is something I will never get used to.