Holiday #3 (2009) - the River

In late July 2009 I took a Friday off and we headed to a campground about an hour south of the city for a long weekend. Once again, it was cool and a bit rainy, though we had mostly sun and decent temps during the days and rain only at night. This was a fairly small campground with not too much to do, but we borrowed kid-sized fishing equipment from the campground office and the kids were happy just standing on the dock and fishing.

With bucket full of river water to the side, they spent hours just standing there catching sunfish after sunfish. On Saturday afternoon at one point they had 72 sunfish in the bucket. We kept five of the biggest ones and cooked them up just so we could say we’d caught supper – they were rather bony, not the most tasty things, but who cares.

Other than fishing, we spent some time walking along the river trail (not very far), playing in the little playground, catching frogs (what else!), swimming at the dog-friendly beach, and reading.

Came home Sunday aft as it was again starting to rain. A nice weekend, and close enough to the city we could easily go there for a day. (April 2010: Mustang has already asked if we could go back this summer; she wants to fish some more.)