Well imagine that a day off and we are on the beach, not sure this beach has a name. Richard told me about this beach, it is one that the locals frequent, it is mainly sand and we were able to drive right down to the beach, it’s Monday afternoon so there are only about a dozen people in sight, but the day is warm and feels quite humid, so the breeze off Lake Huron is refreshing.

Of course one can not go to the beach without some refreshments, Miss Laurie has headed off in search of some beach glass and I’m just trying to stay refreshed, while listening to the waves lap on the beach. Lake Huron is calm today, and I think this could be called one of those hot, hazy, humid, days of the summer at 26 or 84 degrees, I think it qualifies. And with the humidity it feels like 31 or 92 degrees which makes it one of the warmest days that we have experienced this summer, nothing like the folks in Niagara area have experienced with temperatures in the thirties and feeling like forty with the humidity, not missing that so much…just saying.

It is almost crazy to think the Summer is nearly over, but Labour Day is closing in fast at at that point our park will fall back into the slowed down pace of just a few retired folk, the grand kids will be back in school and we have been told that the park will be back to the quiet peaceful park that we first enjoyed. We have done very little exploring this year, and have decided not to look for any work camping positions this winter, but instead just enjoy some down time to catch up with friends and make some new ones.

Well Miss Laurie said this beach is a bust for beach glass, and with the breeze is picking up, and the peace and tranquility has been shattered by a jet ski, I know they must be fun to skip around on the water but they are just so noisy compared to a boat. That is one of the things we have enjoyed about Lake Huron, has been the quiet, it’s unlike Lake Ontario or Erie with the crazy boat traffic or even worse Florida. So when we got here we were amazed at the peacefulness and to see a boat was unusual we quickly started to enjoy the quiet and being to hear the surf. So as we pack up to head back to the park this is a beach that we will return to I’m sure.

Just to update the beach name is Zion Beach…

Well this was truly some great entertainment both for the participants as well as spectators, as 29 teams of 2 people had to circumvent the park in the search of clues and cards to form the best poker hand, there were prizes for best costume as well. Obviously there were multiple cocktails involved which seemed to make some of the challanges a little tougher for some than others, in fact some were just down right challanging for the stone sober so imagine how a few chugged shots, could effect with ones ability to complete a dexterity puzzle.

So all 29 teams started in the community center, then all had to head to the same area of the park, to find a multiple plastic eggs to piece together their first clue, with that clue they had to detemine thier starting point then dispersed to different areas of the park to one of the different stations, at each station there was a skill test as well as their next clue and a card for the poker hand, oh yea there was also a shot of liquor that had to be consumed as well.

Some of the clues were a little complex and took some thought, to determine where they should be heading next, if you got out of order than you could miss some of your cards to make that perfect hand, with completion of the whole race you should have collected 10 playing cards to make the best five card poker hand possible.

While there were no royal flushes, there were some pretty good hands, with the winning hand being four 10’s with an Ace high, Four of a kind is really rare but with over ten decks of cards your odds get considerably better. So the winning hand was owned by a team called “The Beaver Liquors” (yes I can’t even make this stuff up) and the best costume was “Fred & Wilma Flintstone” which was well deserved.

And the Lady, Miss Shelly that put this all together, spent weeks of planning and making arrangenents to have people in place to control the handing out of the clues, ran 50/50 draws on all the holiday weekends to put the funds together for the drinks, as well as the prize monies. It was very obvious that this project could not have been put together with out a lot of time and effort, our hats are off to you Miss Shelly…job well done.

And to the whole team that spent a Saturday afternoon, judging and controlling each clue box job well done, we had heard about this event all summer and I think it lived up to the hype, as I said there had to be more than one hundred people involed as helpers or participants.