Our first date. Paradise Pool at the western edge of Temagami. A small, cliff ringed lagoon with bottomless visibility, a waterfall for climbing and diving and swimming underneath, and a small rock platform for sunning, surrounded by the sweet scent of ferns and cedars. Then that evening, a jury-rigged sauna on a large rock ledge about ten feet above the turquoise waters of Wolf Lake, under a full moon. Glowing coals, hot steam, Karen and I whipping each other’s backs with slender birch branches, then running and diving into the cool lake, and floating on our backs looking up at the full moon and the stars.