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We we survived the first camping trip of 2011! A couple weeks ago, I pulled the camping trailer out of the corner of my yard, and popped it up to make sure everything was dry inside, and there was no animals living in the trailer. To my surprise, since we had SO much snow, the trailer was completely dry inside, and everything seemed to be in working order. Tessa and I popped up the roof, and folded out the beds, and made sure it was stocked of all our camping necessities, and of course it was. The only problem we had was with the propane fridge. I think the burner tube was a little dirty, as the flame was backfiring through the breather tube. But after a nice clean-up, it was good to go! That was about all the maintenance we did on the trailer before taking it out.

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We left Friday right after work, and had a beautiful drive up to The Pinery. The weather the first day was great, with about 5 minutes of light rain. We got everything setup in record time, then enjoyed our night. We had a couple nice bike rides, and a great campfire, then off to bed.

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

The next day, and the following, were absolutely beautiful! 15 degrees, and not a cloud in the sky. After a huge breakfast, we went to Grand Bend, and took a walk on the beach. After that, JP left to go home, and Tessa had the campsite to ourselves. We went for a nice walk, then started the campfire, and supper, and relaxed the night away.

It was a great trip, and went off without a hitch!

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

From 06 – Pinery Campgrounds

Since buying the tent trailer in November of last year, I’ve been ITCHING to use it.  The weather was looking up this past weekend, so on a whim, we booked a site at the Riverside campground at the Pinery.  We really lucked out with this site, it was RIGHT by the river, and very large and private!  The weather for Friday was awesome!  So good that we felt the need for a swim in the river behind the campsite.  Saturday morning was a little rainy, but by the afternoon, it was warm and sunny again.

Overall, the weekend was awesome!  Can’t wait to go again!

This post is just my BLOG post for Six Mile Lake. For my official review of Six Mile Lake, click HERE

I’ll start with Six Mile Lake Provincial Park.  This park was awesome!  It’s right near where we used to own a cottage, so I was very familiar with the area.  Our site was VERY private.  There was a small driveway that went to our site, and it was situated on a nice open rock, with lots of room for picnic tables, and tents, etc.  It was a open site, so there wasn’t much shade.  From our site, we couldn’t even see the camp road, or any other campsites. 

Other sites seemed pretty private as well, some sites were even up on a hill, overlooking a pond. The park was very nice and clean, but the main problem was there were no flushing toilets near the sites.  You had to go to the beach area, or front gate for that.  The beaches were also pretty mediocre. 

We didn’t spend much time throughout the day in the park.  We went to the cottage and did alot of swimming, and some 4×4’ing with the ATV.  We also visited BALA, and Port Carling (really nice small port towns).

That’s about it.  Had a great relaxing time!

The second spot was Pinery.  We all had a great time.  Mostly sat at the campsite and talked, but we did go to the beach a couple times, on walks, etc, etc.  The campfires at night were decent.  Our campsite was OK, a little close to the neighbors.  We also had a tent trailer with us, which was awesome!  Waaay better then a tent. I even played my first game of Horseshoes! (next goal wins!). I enjoyed the Pinery. Ate like a king!

There will be more camping, and more cottaging to come!