Girls Gone Wild!! Not Quite!!

Feeding our little fox

This past weekend, Sandra, our best friend Susan and I went out for our annual camping trip to Otter Falls in the Whiteshell Provincial Park, one of our favourite places to go. We always like to go in the Fall, less people so we can be noisier, more space in the campgrounds so we're not in amongst everyone and we love to see the beautiful Fall foliage. It feels so good to go camping, even though I have a beautiful cottage, I still also love camping. But this was the first year that we have had rain, Friday night and Saturday were very chilly and damp, thank goodness Sandra's trailer has a heater in it. It had started raining on the way out, it stopped when we got there so we were able to set up the tent trailer, then rained on and off again. We made supper, have a campfire and a "few" drinks before it started raining again so we sat under the trailer awning. Within about 15 minutes of us moving, a little red fox came over to our campsite to check out the snack situation and ate the popcorn that we had spilled on the ground. We also fed him some pasta that was left over from dinner just so we could keep him coming back. It was such a nice treat to see! It rained all through the night and ALL DAY Saturday, it made it quite chilly. We all decided to have a nap in the warm trailer, something Sandra ALWAYS does, but Susan and I were ready for one also. We decided to go for a drive through Nutimuk and Betula Lakes, remembering all the fun we had in these lakes and campgrounds when we were younger, also broke up the day of sitting in the trailer. That night we saved the bones from our steak to feed the fox and he came back again with a friend this time also.

Campsite at Otter Falls

Our typical camping breakfast, sausages and cheese buns done over the fire pit as you can tell!!
Defiantly not in the Weight Watchers food plan!! :(

Otter Falls island, it's so pretty!

The shoreline never used to be like this, it used to have a short sandy beach area along the camping sites
that are right along the grassy edge. It's too bad they had to do this, probably due to erosion.

 

Who are the kids??

Typical kind of thing Sandra would do, steal corn for a fall display
 for her house from some poor farmer! And so proud! 

Well of course, just like most weekends, Sunday turned out to be beautiful. It gave us a chance to sit out in the sunshine ALL morning just drinking coffee, we didn't eat breakfast till about 1:00. The trailer had a good chance to dry out and we just enjoyed the day. Sandra will have to put the trailer in storage for the winter, so it got a really good cleaning before we closed it up. A funny thing happened, when Sandra woke up, she asked us what we did with her flip flops, she saw one of them about 10 ft. from our campsite. She was determined that we threw it there just to bug her, she wouldn't believe us but these are the kind of things we do to each other. She went looking for the other one which was even further and also found mine over there too. The fox was stealing our flip flops through the night and taking them away. Pretty funny! We went for a walk around the campground, enjoyed the views of the lake, we love looking at the island at Otter Falls, it would be neat to boat to it and check it out. We also had fun throwing leaves and taking self-timed pictures to add to our photo album. We've been doing this for 20 years  and we wouldn't miss it for the world, lots of laughs. We've missed a few, but always enjoy ourselves on our camping trips, a good de-stresser for everyone. I had lots of fun with you Sandra and Susan, but I'm really glad we didn't have to sleep in a tent this year!!

Talk to you soon!!