New Cottage Property

I've been missing in action from the forums because of life being so busy! Beyond doing the renos to our house, we also just purchased a 7 acre property up in cottage country.

I was casually looking through the MLS listings and came across this gem. Rob and I went up to see it and we purchased it on the spot. ;) For those of you who know Ontario, it's located right under Algonquin Park and it is a true cottage property. None of this Muskoka 'clear cut everything in sight, place a mansion on a rock and pollute the waters with your giant boat' type of property. I'm purchasing a cottage property so it stays as natural as possible.

It's going to take a lot of 'cleaning' up since nothing has been done to the property over the last while. The last owners barely used it. Since we hope to use this as our retirement home in the future, we have to plan carefully so we can build something small for now, and expand later. We hope to do everything off-grid (solar panels etc) so we have quite a bit of research (fun!) ahead of us.

This pic taken in mid-April when we first went to see the property. The rough road leading into our land. It looks like everything is dead! ;)
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Here is the same road, pic taken on Sunday! Look at the difference in the landscape within a month! We have some serious 'bushwacking' in our future. :D It's going to take a good couple of months of just clearing out some of the bush and making some basic paths. We only have time on weekends to go up there so it will keep us busy.

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Very tall trees!
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Walking down towards the lake
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Our shoreline. We own everything to the left, curving around to the tall tree located in the middle of this pic. I'm in heaven! :)
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:) Yes this property does look very nice.. Great for retirement.. Many Congrats..

WWWOOOOOWWWW! I know that area, and how lucky you are to get an unblemished site!

Gorgeous. I wonder if you are thinking of building an outdoors cat enclosure so the furkids don't meet up with predator types?:)

Congratulations!:D

How lovely! Congratulations!

It's beautiful! Congratulations, indeed! :D

It's gorgeous. Congrats!!!:D

Looks like you found heaven on earth - Congratulations!! :D

Thanks everyone for taking a look. :)

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Originally Posted by Catty1

WWWOOOOOWWWW! I know that area, and how lucky you are to get an unblemished site!

Gorgeous. I wonder if you are thinking of building an outdoors cat enclosure so the furkids don't meet up with predator types?:)

Congratulations!:D

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As soon as we saw the property, we knew we had to purchase it. It's so rare to find a 'natural' property up north. Plus, the lake only has 3 other properties on it and all the owners have kept it as natural as possible. I can't even see where one property starts or ends!

I don't understand the mentality of purchasing a property up north, cutting almost every tree down, place a huge energy sucking building on the land and rolling down sod? Why do people want the north to look like a subdivision? Bleh! I'm trying to escape that by going north!

Yes, we'll need to figure out something for the furkids. We have already found many animal paths, probably moose and deer (and even a few bear). ;)

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Originally Posted by Randi

Looks like you found heaven on earth - Congratulations!! :D

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Yep, we did! :D

My gosh, I did a double take here...this looks exactly like my bro's property so my eyes widened up. He was talking of selling but never did ask if he did. That lovely bush road (trail) could be worked a bit and you could just park a trailer there for now while you plan your future cottage.

What an utterly gorgeous place! Congratulations!

Its breathtaking, congratulations!

Congrats, what a neat piece of property. I know you all will enjoy it for years to come.

Of course, we are all invited to the housewarming, right? ;)