Trip Report : Quebec and New England
It's March 2012 and Silversand (AKA Derek) and Silverdunes (AKA Nikki) are sharing a beer with me in a heatwave in Bromont, Quebec. It's 24 celcius and I'm starting to doubt Derek's descriptions of ic...
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Sunday 6th September : Bromont to Mont Orford
We have a casual start to the day and load the shopping, bedding and other stuff Nikki has arranged for us - saves us 'renting' amenity kits from the RV guy.
Derek has a go backing the rental RV down his drive. They had previously ruled out possibilities of a future class C at that property, but this 19ft model was proving access wasn’t too much of a problem. Despite seeming to be fitted with ABS the E350 still locked a front wheel in a couple of places and slid leaving a couple of 10ft gashes in the gravel we had to kick over afterwards.
Mont Orford isn't far away, but being Labor Day there is a huge queue for the park entrance.
Nikki booked us two campsites, but they got moved due to maintenance work, and to top it off when we arrived another camper was still on our site, which they didn't need to vacate until 3pm. So we both went on to Derek's site and parked there. Since the class C was a bit more difficult to manoeuvre Derek and Nikki kindly suggested we take that site and they would wait until the other one was free and then take that.
We walk to the lake edge - it is beautiful, but packed (being labor day weekend):
We decide that canoes would be the best bet, but it is far too hot this afternoon - we would fry out there, so decide to revisit the idea first thing tomorrow morning. After a rest we get together at our campsite to cook a meal:
Stay tuned for the canoes...
We have a casual start to the day and load the shopping, bedding and other stuff Nikki has arranged for us - saves us 'renting' amenity kits from the RV guy.
Derek has a go backing the rental RV down his drive. They had previously ruled out possibilities of a future class C at that property, but this 19ft model was proving access wasn’t too much of a problem. Despite seeming to be fitted with ABS the E350 still locked a front wheel in a couple of places and slid leaving a couple of 10ft gashes in the gravel we had to kick over afterwards.
Mont Orford isn't far away, but being Labor Day there is a huge queue for the park entrance.
Nikki booked us two campsites, but they got moved due to maintenance work, and to top it off when we arrived another camper was still on our site, which they didn't need to vacate until 3pm. So we both went on to Derek's site and parked there. Since the class C was a bit more difficult to manoeuvre Derek and Nikki kindly suggested we take that site and they would wait until the other one was free and then take that.
We walk to the lake edge - it is beautiful, but packed (being labor day weekend):
We decide that canoes would be the best bet, but it is far too hot this afternoon - we would fry out there, so decide to revisit the idea first thing tomorrow morning. After a rest we get together at our campsite to cook a meal:
Stay tuned for the canoes...
