"It is fashionable to call any occupation that does not contribute in some dull way to the world's material wealth an "escape". It is a ridiculous fashion, as little connected with reality as acute insanity. Many people spend their lives in work that is materially quite unproductive, yet has a closer touch with reality than any simple, straightforward job where sweat yield. I remember a sympathetic left wing friend once wondering what would become of me in his revolution. "A writer", he said musingly. "Well, I supposed a writer is a producer in some sort of way. Or is he?".
   "Feeling the liquidation squad close behind me, I said boldly, "Producer, hell. A writer's a natural resource." He puzzled over that one for a long time and never did come up with an answer.
   This has slipped a long way from the point. What I started out to say was that it is fashionable to consider most forms of recreation "escape". Perhaps some of them are. Habitual and heavy drinking may be, several forms of gambling seem to be, intense preoccupation as a spectator with spectator sports may be, just as a regular attendance at shallow movies undoubtably is. But I think the list had better close just about there, and close with the admission that the "escape" generality can have plenty of exceptions. Strange as it may seem, lots of people do things because they just like to do them; they get a kick out of doing them, and don't give a damn whether the thing they are doing is productive or unproductive, whether it provides an escape from reality or a highway to reality.
   Reality for any properly constituted man in a properly constituted society can never consist solely in materially productive work. A balanced and rounded man who is really living a life instead of enduring it will have many interests beside his work, and they will all be part of his reality. Sports like hunting and fishing, actively and positively followed, are an important and integral part of living for many men. They are not escape from problems or work or reality, but are complementary to the more ordinary, and often less exacting, routines of living, giving substance and meaning and rounded form to a life that would otherwise be a monotonous passage through some seventy years of the world's history."

- Roderick L. Haig-Brown, A Fisherman's Spring

   The picture above is the scenery looking off the Red Rocks cliffs near Round Lake of the Renfrew County. I am not aware if the small lake at the foreground of the picture has a name. However, from this vantage usually one would have a sweeping view of the actual Round Lake, not the town, the actual lake, but with the low visablity brought by a storm not much can be seen. The lake to the left corner is a part of Little Pike Lake.

From yellow pin, the photo looks West. Note little unnamed lake and Little Pike Lake