Only 6 or 44 degrees, it’s 8 o’clock on opening day, it is overcast and we are only expecting a high of 8 or 48, but no rain till Monday, and we have heavy equipment in repairing the damage done over the winter with the process of shoring up the bank. The water levels are very high on all the Great Lakes this year and we have flooding in many areas of Ontario. Many people have lost cottages in the Muskoka area with rivers flooding washing out roads, our issue is from the waves of Lake Huron washing away at the shore and bank.

The park officially opens at noon today and Rich and I have a number of small projects to complete this morning, blocking off the beach access, putting some wood chips down on a lookout point around the benches, trimmings a few small trees, and a last clean up of sticks and branches.

It’s noon and there has been a steady stream of guests entering the park. The first rush is about over its 4 o’clock and only a few issues, received one trailer, replaced one 30 amp receptacle, helped a couple of people with a few water issues, over all pretty smooth.

The next rush will hit at about 6 o’clock as people finish work for the weekend, and head up to the campground, just to let you know, it never warmed up at all today, in fact the wind off the lake has lowered the temperature.

The afternoon rush went very smooth with no major issues, Laurie was busy at the office/store with lots of last minute items and everyone getting registered for the season, although it has stayed cold all day, lots of camp fires. We took a tour around the campground to met as many people as possible and everyone seems very friendly.

Well just finished my security round, it 11 o’clock and only a couple of groups sitting around campfires, the furnaces running are noisier than anything else. So opening day done with minimal problems….easy peazy….lol

Sorry for the lack of posts, it has been the craziest of weeks, the last five days have been beyond busy. Weather has not cooperated at all, but we have trudged through and where possible we have things ready.

As you can see in this picture the lake has been very rough and churned up a lot of mud from the shore. We have had a busy day cleaning and preparing sites for the new seasonal guests, raking leaves, picking up sticks, and putting some fresh gravel on the sites. We still have some wet areas that are going to take a few days of sun to dry out.

The camp roads are in bad shape in some places, I even managed to get our work cart and trailer stuck in the road, to everyone’s delight.

We have received some new trailers, delivered by the RV lots to be placed on sites for customers, we do that with our tractor to do as little damage as possible, as the tractor has a very sharp turning radius. We have also removed some trailers to make way for new guests, but the fun really starts next week with many scheduled deliveries.

To day received the parts to replace the rear wheel bearing and axle on the second golf cart, I got to lube about 60 black tank valves in preparation for next weeks pump outs, we installed a new pump on the honey wagon, put out the park furniture, shuffled some picnic tables around, washed the golf carts, busy busy busy. But now we are less than 24 hours till opening! We are going out this evening for dinner with Bonnie and Rich, could be couple of adult beverages involved, just saying.