We have passed our first health board inspection! So we can open the pool this weekend, we don’t have to wait but there aren’t a lot of guests in the park and the pool is only up to 19 or 70 degrees. So not a big demand for pool time right now, and I’m just getting into the routine of the chemical checks on a regular basis so it’s ok not to have anyone in the pool right now.

I met the inspectors on Tuesday when they were in and we are not expecting anything inspection until some time in July, when we get a surprise inspection. The biggest task will be the paperwork as we are to inspect the reading every couple of hours. So we will fire the heater up on Friday to warm it up for Father’s Day weekend until then solar and pool blanket are in place and operating normally.

So we just finished our first weekend with the pool open, and still waiting to see an adult in the pool, lots of kids in there almost steady over the weekend. And it was not by any means a nice weekend, looked like rain all day Saturday with a cool breeze. But it did not seem to deter the little people…actually really good to see it getting so much use and as it was our weekend off it was not our concern with tracking the chemicals.

The beach access is open! It’s 4 o’clock on Saturday and we have just finished finished the sweeping and raking of the the walkway. Now I’m not one to complain about the heat but what’s the deal, today was the most strenuous day with lots of manuel labour involved and today the temperature was 27 or 86 degrees, and the breeze was off shore so no cooling effect today. Richard and I started at 10 this morning and other that a 30 minute lunch break we worked steady at this till 4 pm.

This task is normally not this bad but because of all the work at the bottom of the access, and the fact all the gravel had to be taken down a loader bucket at a time, add the steep angle and much spillage had taken place. We felt that there must have been a couple of cubic yards of gravel spread across the walkway. The walkway is pavement and the gravel has larger stones that just act like marbles as you step on them. So the walk had to be raked, and a blower was used to remove the sandy portion of the gravel so it’s hot and dusty plus a lot of work…but we were able to complete the task and safely open the walkway.

The three photos show the roughly the same view, the top has the large rock building up the edge that had washed away. The middle one shows the gravelled path with the stone all the way across the walkway and the last photo shows the swept path with the pavement re-exposed to allow easier access to the beach area.

The access to the water is a huge feature to the park, and many guests have chosen this park just because of that access. Needless to say we have lots of happy campers now in the park and traffic on the path was brisk this evening