Winter Excursion 7, Day 67 The Life of a Camp Host

We were off today, so it turned into laundry day. Cath had it all done by 1300.

After we got it all put away I jumped on the E-bike and hit the trails. It was fun riding and the trails they are really nice, hardly any roots.

We spent the late afternoon by the fire. It started to get cool as the sun started to set.

Dinner and a movie then off to bed. Temps will be in the mid 30s tonight!

 

Winter Excursion 7, Day 66 The Life of a Camp Host

Today was our first day off. We slept in until 0800!

We spent most of the morning hanging around camp. We said goodbye to two friends, Jim and Kathy (the folks we met at French Creek) they left around 1100. We will be staying in touch with them as we all get along great. Also, there was a couple that I struck up a conversation with. Turns out he was an Army Helicopter Pilot. He was also in 12th Aviation Brigade and deployed with us to Desert Storm...Small World!

We made a trip to Walmart for a few things and ate lunch at our favorite fried shrimp joint along the way.

Back at camp we spent the rest of the afternoon enjoying the weather, mid 60s and low humidity. Weather is forecast to be great for the next ten days.

We were off so there is no "Find of the Day".

Winter Excursion 7, Day 65 The Life of a Camp Host

With only six campers in the campground it was easy work this morning. No campers are leaving today and none are arriving.

The storms started around 1130. They were strong at times, but the wind was not bad and all was over by mid afternoon.

We had some friends we had met at French Creek SP, PA this year in camp. They spent the evening with us and are only staying for two nights. They will also be hosting at their destination campground.

The find of the day was this dart.

I'm thinking some kid shot it at me from the bushes!

We are off for the next two days with no plans!

Winter Excursion 7, Day 64 The Life of a Camp Host

It was a lot less work today. Checked the bathhouse around 0800, all was well. Raked a few sites I'd missed yesterday, drove to the office, and picked up today's slips. Only three new campers, so we will have 6 in camp tonight.

I stocked both host sites with firewood to sell. We should have enough for quite awhile.

Had a new camper arrive today and complained about how unlevel the site was. They are staying through the weekend so there is not a lot of wiggle room for them to get another site. I finally got them into their site and they are happy, waterfront and all. An hour later they came to our site complaining about the power at their site. They have a large Class C and are hooked to 30 amp service here. We changed all of their circuit breakers to newer ones and it seems to be working fine. There is a lot more to this story than I'm not writing. It all worked out OK. 

The find of the day is this Christmas tree ball.

It now lives in our Christmas decoration container.

Rain is forecast for tonight and tomorrow. Sounds like camper bound and cribbage.

 

Winter Excursion 7, Day 63 The Life of a Camp Host

Today was one of the busiest camp host days we have had (and it had to be our first day this year). This park has 22 sites, 15 of them left today after a New Years Weekend. I raked 19 sites! I'm sure I'll feel it tomorrow. I think everyone had a camp fire all weekend so the fire pits were the worst for clean out. I probably made ten trips to the ash dump pit.

OK, enough whining.

There is only four campers in tonight, so tomorrow will be a breeze.

The find of the day was this fire pit.

I've cleaned lots of fire pits, but have never seen one full of cotton. These folks are obviously not from Georgia, but it would have been nice if they'd burned them or took them home. It definitely stinks if you try to burn it, so I will give them that.

Cath & I cleaned the bathhouse together for the first time. All went well! I love my new Camp Host Partner.  

Winter Excursion 7, Day 62 The Life of a Camp Host

We spent the day getting the site set up and squared away. Ran into town for a few things we had forgot.

We got the bird feeder set up, hoping it doesn't become a squirrel feeder!

Late afternoon we just relaxed. Here's the view from the site.

The park road is on the other side of the fence.

This park is "famous" for this silhouette of sasquatch. Visitors to the park will walk all over searching for it and then get a photo. It's probably 100 yards away from us and across the street. The other thing in this pic is the cane grinder. The park staff grow and harvest sugar cane, grind it, then boil in down in syrup.

We are for the most part "set up" and assume duties tomorrow.

All is well in the Boss Camp.
 

Winter Excursion 7, Day 61 The Life of a Camp Host

The rain today was not as bad as forecast. We finished up what little packing up we had to do and were at the dump station by 0900. Then on the road by 0930, 30 minutes ahead of schedule, but actually we have no schedule.

On the way we witnessed a Police Office in pursuit of a vehicle. The vehicle went off the side of the road, with the Officer in pursuit. The Officer stopped in the right lane of RT 17, jumped out of his car, pulled his gun, and probably started shouting expletives at driver in the vehicle. The guy in the vehicle (young guy) exited quick with hands over his head. That was all we saw as we passed by at 45 mph. I wouldn't to be that kid or his parents!

We arrived at our new Campground, pulled into our host site around 1400.

Rudy (one of the maintenance guys and a friend from last year) greeted us. We met our new co-host (Carolyn) and then spent the rest of the afternoon setting up. Here's the new site, we were in host site #2 last year, but in host site #1 this year.

We are off tomorrow and will spend the day setting everything up. We will be here for four months. I'll post a few more pics tomorrow. Our first "work day" is Monday