Katrina here. Over the past week the team was lucky enough to visit 2 more provincial parks, and stay 3 nights at each!
The first was Long Point, and we had a beautiful site right near the beach. This park is probably the sandiest one we've been to. We had two shows at the park on a rainy Sunday and we were lucky enough to have the rain stop in time for both our shows- what are the chances of that?
Monday we had a nice relaxing day off and drove to the town of Long Point where Amanda and I had a lovely mini-putt tournament. We both shot over par, but it was nice to change up our routine a little. (Amanda here- Katrina is just being modest, she actually kicked my butt). While playing mini-putt Adam explored the Arcade. On our way back to the park we stopped at a trail explaining some of the future plans for the Longpoint Causeway, to build eco passages for the animals. We walked the 2km trail and saw a great blue heron, a hawk and a couple garter snakes. I decided to pick up a garter, which of course meant the garter had the right to musk on me! It was really smelly!- note to self: that is why we don't pick up wild garters!
Turkey Point was our next stop: after shows in Port Dover and Port Rowan. Again we lucked out with a huge campsite- it was a pull-through with two picnic tables and quite a distance between other campsites. Our first night there we had a show in front of the campers at Turkey Point.... little did we know our boss Jeff and Robin were in the crowd filming us! We had a nice visit with Jeff and Robin and had a lovely evening dinner of chili and card-playing! Side note: we had a park warden come by and say we were being a little too loud with our music (AND this was in fact our forth encounter with park wardens at different parks after driving a short distance without seatbelts, having fires after 11pm and parking in a no parking area). This is proof that park wardens do a great job! :)
Which takes us to Wednesday... on Wednesday we had 3 shows at Simcoe Library, Waterford Library and Backus Conservation Area. Thursday we had a day off at Turkey Point where Adam and I dropped Amanda off at her great Aunt and Uncles' (Carole and Stuart). She had a reat time catching up and seeing old family photos and meeting the neighbour: Gregor Beck. Gregor Beck is involved in the reptile world and has helped with several publications- Amanda picked up a wonderful herp. conservation guide off him (which is one I actually purchased in Pinery P.P.). Adam and I then went to the town of Simcoe to explore and get our haircut.
Which brings us to today! Friday!! We are currently stationned outside the Port Dover Library doing our second last display as part of a sidewalk sale on the Main street. Tonight we will be in Selkirk- our last provincial park of the trip. We are almost done our Ontario adventures and it only feels like yesterday that we departed for the Georgian Bay Tour....