Photo above taken during the summer from the shore.

Photo at left from the top of Devil's Face.

Photo below was taken last weekend during a Fall cruise in our boat.

One Tree Island is on Skeleton Lake where we have our retirement home. It can be viewed from a boat, the shore or above from the cliff of Devil's Face. It is one of those places I've always wanted to photograph at sunrise or sunset, but have yet to do it. Negotiating the rocky cliffs in the dark can be tricky (if not foolhardy) business.

There is a legend behind the naming of the lake. When surveyors were working on the north shore of, they came upon two skeletons resting on the rocks. When they asked a local Indian chief where the skeletons came from, they were told that he and his people had camped one winter on Skeleton Lake. When food became scarce the tribe decided to move elsewhere. One mother, with a fourteen-year-old son too weak to move, refused to accompany them. They died together of starvation, and the lake was named in memory of this mother and her son. Natives had named it Pawkhuk Lake and when translated to the english it became Skeleton. "Spirit" is thought to be a closer translation.