Oh, no! you say. Alligators in Muskoka!
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Well, it's true. There used to be many alligators in the lake. Not the biting kind, of course --that was left to the mosquitoes-- the pushing kind.
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An alligator Muskoka style is a flat-bottomed, steam-powered boat used to push logs around and get to the end of the lake where the saw mills were.
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They are called alligators because they had a steam winch at the front end of the boat used to drag itself across land to the next lake or river. Hook onto a tree, winch the boat along. Hook another...
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It took a lot of winching.
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