I know you sense another story coming up written by Trevor, and you would be right. But first, to fill you in on where we went from Niagara Falls. Canada is truly a beautiful country and we decided we would head toward Sault Ste Marie, but drive as far as we could on this particular day.
Traffic Jam between Highway 88 and Highway 89
Problem with that idea is that we bypassed Toronto to get to Highway 400 which would take us all the way up North West toward our destination. What we didn’t count on was a highway closure due to an accident. We managed to crawl our way to another exit, and take all of the back roads trying to get back on the Highway 400. By the time we hit a small beach town called Wasaga, we decided it was time to pull up stops and camp for the night. What a gorgeous little campsite with people as friendly as ever.
Main Office at the campsite
Enjoying dinner by our RV
The campsite had a few other kids for Flynn, Amber and Jai to play basketball with and all of the kids enjoyed the heated outdoor pool.
Kids in the heated pool
Baby Akaisha rugged up in the afternoon chill
So now, onto Trev’s story………………
The Cat, the Squirrel and the Skunk!
We stumbled upon a beautiful little camping ground at Wasaga Beach on Huron Lake (Great Lakes area) in Canada. Just like a real ocean beach except the water was fresh water! Lots going on whilst we were there with a triathlon in town and hundreds of teenagers doing Hip Hop dancing on the beach.
Back at camp I was having a cuppa outside early in the morning sitting on the lawn in amongst scattered tall trees. I watched as the resident ginger tabby cat was stalking a black squirrel. The cat looked large and fierce and determined to have squirrel for brekky. However, something wasn’t quite right! The unusual thing was that the squirrel didn’t seem to be the least bit bothered about this feline predator. As the cat crept closer the squirrel wouldn’t run. He seemed to be teasing the cat. He danced about on the lawn with his tail bouncing around high in the air going about his business of snooping around the grass. Suddenly the cat made a dash and squirrel darted about two metres up a tree trunk, turned around and looked teasingly back at the ginger cat. Ginger, sensing that she had lost the game, turned and slinked off, ignoring the squirrel. The little squirrel then jumped back down and danced around once more as the cat reorganized herself for round two.
I suspect this game goes on everyday, as the two seem to know each other. In fact I think they are buddies!
That night I left a bag of rubbish outside the motorhome. It had our leftover takeaway chicken bones in it. Well, I think this delighted the local resident fauna, namely a skunk. In the early hours of the morning I awoke to something going on outside. An animal was feasting on our chook bones and making a huge mess. I jumped up and saw something black and white dart off (the resident cat was ginger so she wasn’t the guilty one!). After cleaning up I went back to bed.
In the morning there was this horrific stink around our RV, in fact it seemed to stink everywhere. Now I can tolerate bad smells (I do live in a motorhome with seven smelly kids!), but this was awful! When the kids woke up they also complained about the smell. All I could think of was that my little mate from last night had got his revenge!
Well as it turned out, the smell was coming from a skunk! One had been run over about 150 metres down the road just outside the camp. I just hope it wasn’t my little mate from last night.
A skunk equivalent to 7 of our grandkids- you are disinherited Trevor !!!!
Love
Pat and barry
No probs,
aren’t you spending all the inheritance on your trip 🙂 🙂
Cath and Trev
Oh, my goodness…wasaga beach…we spent a long weekend there with some wonderful Canadian friends…it was beautiful! Don’t you just love those skunks! Never smelt anything like it!
Safe travelin
The Dewars
Hi Denise,
What a co-incidence for us to stay in the same place you did when you were in Canada. Yes, very pretty countryside. Hope we don’t have any close encounters with a skunk! 🙂
Cath
Love Akaisha in the white jacket….so gorgeous! XXX
Yes, she is a gorgeous little thing! Been so good on this trip. We are blessed! Has had lots of attention from her brothers and sisters. Not sure what she’ll do when they all go back to school next year.
Cath
*6 smelly kids and one beautiful teenager 😛
All of you are beautiful, but you can still be smelly 🙂 🙂 🙂
Love Mum
But I don’t think you’re smelly…….just your dad does 🙂 🙂 🙂
Maybe not 7 of your grand kids Mum and Dad – but definitely 10 of them 🙂
What happened to the other four?
Cath
Hi again, friends of ours live in Ojai california and James happened to be over for tea tonight. We told him about your trip and he said you are all very welcome to stop in for a night, if it’s on your path. Fingers crossed we’ll see you in Honkers! X
Hi Katie and Dave,
We are planning to go to California. I will look up Ojai and see where it is. Did you tell them we have 7 kids!!!!!!
Cath