Veebyes wrote:
...Don't complain about close CG sites when this is what a typical weekend with friends looked like.
Veebyes, in 1999 we were invited to a wedding that was being held ON lake Monroe in Southern Indiana. We took our new pop-up to a marina where the wedding couple made arrangements for us to camp at. We arrived the night before the wedding.
Next morning they greated us and took us (my wife and 2 kids) on a pontoon boat and away we went. I thought was was pretty cool, but the best was yet to come. The wedding was being held on a houseboat, but not just 1 house boat, 7 of them tied together (like your photo here). 6 of them were divided into 2 rows with all the front decks facing the middle toward each other. The 7th house boat was tied to the end, making a T figure. The wedding couple was on the first boat and all the guests were sitting on their lawn chairs on their decks. With second floors, and roof's over the decks, it was like being inside a building (like a church with the pews on the side and the platform at the front). Really cool.
What was even better was, several of the guests were swimming in the water below the boats. Where the 3 came together, 2 facing each other and the third in the T shape, there was a gap right there. There were as many people in the water, under there, looking up while the wedding was going on. I though it was hillarious because the kids swimming under there all had water guns and when the preacher said "I now pronounce ... you may kiss..." at the "kiss" all those kids started shooting their water guns at the couple. Just that quick, they stripped out of their wedding clothes, and underneith they had swim suits, and right in front of God and everybody, got down to their swim suits and jumped in the water.
I will say, that was the absolute coolest most fun time I ever had camping anywhere. I think, 5 of the 7 boats had slides from the top deck to the water, diving boards, and all kinds of water toys. Our kids had a blast, so did we.
At the end of the day, they took us back to the marina. Did I mention this was July 4, 1999? Then the home-grown fireworks started from all the folks docked, and those bottle rockets came flying at our pop-up! Scared the hee-bee-jee-bees right out of all of us, but looking back, it SURE was fun. Next day the took us back out their houseboat. The group had broken up and it was just the one house boat. The kids had so much fun.... and we did too.
Before the 5er our recreational lives revolved around this. Most years we overnighted something like 40 nights aboard, always anchored out. Never at a marina.
Don't complain about close CG sites when this is what a typical weekend with friends looked like.
Don't complain about close CG sites when this is what a typical weekend with friends looked like.
Nautical buff? I'll let you decide. Hate to go to a lake without the 'Doo though (weather permitting LOL).
