Travel update - July 9th

Yesterday's journey to Port McNicoll was uneventful except for construction along our route.  That took some quick thinking and on line map review in order to work our way around 2 road closures along Highway 89.  The roads we took were great.  Pavement was in excellent shape.  Very little traffic.  
Port McNicoll is adjacent to Midland, Ontario and is home to the vessel SS Keewadin.  She is the last Edwardian passenger steamship of its type in the world! (Five years older than the Titanic!)

The vessel is currently for sale!  If it is not sold, it will be dismantled and a piece of wonderful history will be lost forever.   The tour is wonderful and the slope inside the ship is even greater than how it appears in the picture above.
Here is a link to their site for more information.
https://sskeewatin.com/

June 25-28th - Camping Season has begun!!!!!

Well, it finally came!  We were so excited (mostly me!) to go to Wheatley Provincial Park along the shores of Lake Erie for our first outing.  We arrived on the Thursday around 5 pm and set up camp. 

It was a beautiful evening.  I always review the weather network while camping so we are aware of what is coming during our sleeping time.  We don't need any surprises to wake up too!!!!  Well, nothing in the forecast for Thursday so that was good. 
Friday morning and afternoon were HOT and clear but around 4 pm we started to hear a constant rumbling in the air.  It sounded like a very heavy truck continuously driving close by with no interruption in the rumbling sound.  It was very strange indeed!  I decided to look at the weather network and there was an approaching storm that was close by but not going to hit us.  I decided to zoom out and take a wider look.  Oh OOOO!!!!  Things don't look good to the west, south west.  Storms are approaching and if you use any weather network's radar, you know that the colour RED
is not a good sign!  In the picture above you see where we put the picnic table over which we put up our shelter.  Well, this was in a VERY LOW SPOT.  Kevin called it a "wadi".
I took a second look and said to Kevin "We had better move our shelter because when it rains it will be in the middle of a lake!"  So we did.  It ended up being way back on a small rise away from the RV.  We decided to bungie it to the ground and to the picnic table just in case a wind came up.

In the picture above you can see the dining shelter way back behind the RV.
We just got finished cooking supper on the campfire and doing the dishes when all "hell" broke loose!
Man did it rain and it kept raining!  It drove us inside the RV for the remainder of the night.
Next morning I looked out and where the table used to be was now "Lake of the Woods!".  Glad we moved it!
Saturday cleared up just in time for getting the campfire rolling for supper.  Again, we just got finished cooking and cleaning up and down the rain came.  This was short lived so we continued to stay outside under the awning and play cards.  Round 1 came and went and then round 2 hit.  With it came the wind so we were driven inside once again.  
Sunday ended up being quite nice so things dried out just in time for pack up and heading for home.
So much for our first outing!