The Frary children lived happily on Antelope Island despite being four miles from their nearest neighbor and having no church, school, or town. They explored nearby canyons, picnicked under trees, played games on boulders, and spent summer hours floating and swimming in Great Salt Lake. They climbed Frary Peak, then known as Fremont Peak, several times despite its steep, rocky cliffs. Mr. Frary took them sailing to other islands to collect bird eggs and pick wildflowers, and they made holiday day trips to Saltair Resort. When the children were older, they took vacationers sailing by moonlight on warm summer evenings. In winter they studied, read, sketched, wrote stories, and gathered around the kitchen stove by the light of coals to tell ghost stories or play word games. Bill Nye's joke books were a favorite evening read, often read aloud by Guy. Family friend Captain David Davis, who founded the Great Salt Lake Yacht Club, also shared the area's sailing culture; his Cambria II was built in 1901. Saltair, built in 1893 across the lake south of Antelope Island, had become a major resort by the early 1920s, drawing nearly half a million visitors a year, and Grace Frary recalled seeing Charles K. Harris perform "After the Ball" there.