When crossing the border into Canada you don't really need to do much, all the border guy wanted to know was where we were going and if we brought our guns. The answers were Port Buwell and no. As soon as we crossed the border Kinsey and I started looking for differences in Canada from the U.S. we soon discovered that other than some stuff being in french and Target being a gas station instead of a department store, there wasn't much of a culture shock.
When we arrived at Port Burwell we were greeted by a polite ranger at registration and beans (some type of bizarre promotion). As soon as we got to the campsite Kinsey and I scouted out to explore, we were banned from taking any trails due to the strange lack of signage in Canada and our previous incident at Hueston woods. Once we got to the field area Kinsey made a beeline for the playground and proceeded to climb into the obstacles that she was most likely to get stuck in. I heroically raced after her to save her from this certain doom. In my attempts to save her I ended up getting stuck myself. As it turns out, Kinsey was fine. I eventually got unstuck and we headed back to the campground where we finished dinner and ten headed off on a small hike to to the beach. The path down to the beach was well maintained and we had the woods to ourselves. We spotted a lot of deer in the field beyond the woods and even a few cute bunnies in the bushes.
Kinsey chasing seagulls
Mom and Dad
The beautiful sunset
We went to sleep that night knowing we would have a fun day at a clean beach tomorrow!
The campground was the most crowded we had seen all trip long, It was full with kids on bikes and dogs trotting around hunting for leftovers. Our part of the campground used to be thickly wooded with ash trees before the invasive species of the Long Horned Asian Green Bug or something started to eat the trees, so they had to cut them all down. Another discovery we made about Canada was that when U.S camp grounds were mainly crowded on weekends, Canadian camp grounds were crowded all week long. We discovered this when we arrived on a Tuesday.
Wednesday morning we drove to the beach and swam in the clean, ocean like side of Lake Erie.
walking to the beach
playing in the surf
Kinsey found this stick fort and spent half the time we
had there playing in it
The water was cold at first but once
you started to swim around in it,
it warmed right up
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