Welcome to Deerhurst Resort. That's the turn to the place, up ahead where the traffic lights are.
Traffic was sparse this day, so I was able to take a second to snap this through the truck windshield. These are the ever-so-attractive security fences going up in honour of the day and a half G8 coming to town at the end of the month. Granted, security fences are there for security, not for good looks. The army is in residence now. Huge trucks and flatbeds carrying even huger vehicles in army green keep driving past.
The Hercules was circling overhead today, low enough I could almost introduce myself to the cockpit crew.
Security is the order of the day, and for good enough reasons, although yes, it does sound like a billion dollars for what is really only a one and a half day show is excessive by any standard. 
On the other side of the commotion and confusion coin is the "legacy" of buildings paid for by G8 dollars other than the billion for security and let us not even touch on that Fake Lake Muskoka travelogue built in Toronto.
Two of those legacies popped up in Huntsville. In the photo Brian snapped last week while flying with Nick Kohler from McLeans, you can easily spot Cann Lake. just to the top of that (real) lake is the site of the University of Waterloo campus. That's a wonderful addition to this town. To any town, really, but why not here? And just to the left of that is the huge roof of the massive Summit Centre Olympic size skating rink, $23 million (give or take) of our tax dollars in action. We're not sure what use it is being put to for the Summit. (after all, if they told people these things, how secure would the security be???) But we're pretty sure it's one helluva structure for a Summit of such short duration.
We were promised that this event would bring unprecedented journalistic coverage promoting the area... so sitting the journalists on a fake dock by a fake lake listening to fake loons should really draw out their very best literary efforts to encourage folks to come here. Mind you, the REAL THING is right here, just two hours north of Toronto. We'd be delighted to have those self-same journalists sit on a real dock, by our real lake. We'll even bring them real beer from a real brewery, but I digress...
We're ready to welcome the World, even if they'll only be in town so briefly. Although one can't help but ponder, if the problems facing the World today could be solved in a one day meeting, never mind that they are supposed to keep talking while dining or if they wander onto the links... if it was really able to be so swiftly solved, would we not have done it by now?
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