Holiday #5 (2009) - A beautiful park

Our last holiday of the summer was over the September long weekend – after school had already started. I took off a tad early from work and, about an hour and a half after the kids got home from school, we headed out, leaving Lovely and puppies – now four weeks old – once again in the care of Chuckles. This one was the longest drive away, up in the Shield area.

Actually, given the busy after-work-long-weekend traffic, we got only a couple of kilometres from home – still in the heart of the city – and pulled off the freeway to a McDonalds parking lot to have a bite of supper. Picked up some fries to complement our soup, ate in the bus, and played a bit. Finally, about an hour later, traffic had eased up the point where it was worthwhile heading out again and, tummies full, we trundled on our way.




We arrived at the campground shortly after sunset, found our campsite, and settled in for the night. This was also a fairly large campground, but not nearly so spread-out as the previous one. The kids and Laoye had their bikes and sped up and down the roadways, while even walking it went quite quickly to reach the main beachfront area. You could tell this was a well-used and serviced campground – the interpretation centre had some nice displays and talks on a daily basis, and there was both a ferry service to take you across the inlet to the path up the cliff on the opposite shore of the lake and a boat ride along the cliff edge where you could see some of the rock paintings – and observe intrepid climbers doing a technical climb up the cliff face.




We spent our time swimming, hiking, playing, and just plain having fun! The weekend was over all too soon and then – back to the city to settle into the fall routine of school, work and puppies!