Cam.card folder: d485 - Init: 2018-07-29

2018-07-23 Day 1. Presqu'ile camping. Arrival.

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18-07-23 - Look, up in the sky. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? ... No, it's a flying tent. Wind conditions sometimes lift an unanchored tent off the ground.

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18-07-23 - MnA arrive and set up . With new tents, both sleeping and dining.

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18-07-23 - The fly goes on over the top.

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18-07-23 - Now, where did I put those ...?

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18-07-23 - Tent-in-a-tent for Isabel.

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18-07-23 - Our tent is across the road.

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18-07-23 - Cousins.

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18-07-23 - In case we decide to buy one. I'd like a tent with more floorspace and headroom, and with a clip design where the inner tent hangs from the poles. We've been mystified too many times in the dark and rain trying to thread poles through sticky sleeves.

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18-07-23 - I've got my Boy Scout badge ... Fire worker's qualification. Something about rubbing two dry sticks together? Or maybe it was ...

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18-07-23 - Rubbing two hind legs together to start a fire. Or was that about the grasshopper mating-call for the junior entomologist badge? ... Merle says it's easier if one of the sticks is a match. Why is everybody looking at me?

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18-07-23 - The rigours of camping.

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18-07-23 - What's for dinner, Dad?

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18-07-23 - Merle returns from shopping. Hunting and gathering actually. But in the park we're not allowed to hunt. Except for water-taps and toilets.

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18-07-23 - Eminance grise exudes an air of ...

quiet desperation.

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18-07-23 - Can I come in to your tent?

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18-07-23 - Low ceiling. Our hi-tech LED chandelier is missing.

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18-07-23 - Derek tests the bedding.

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18-07-23 - ... and the avilable elixir.

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18-07-23 - Almost dinnertime.

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18-07-23 - A light unto the nations. Seven "eyes" in total.

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18-07-23 - Also one of the Presqu'ile illuminati.

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18-07-23 - Careful Beatrix.

Could mean something naughty in Italian.

Or maybe, "two cell-phones" in Mime-ese?

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18-07-23 - Exactly.

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18-07-23 - Double insulation.

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18-07-23 - Showers.

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18-07-23 - In Nathan and Lison's dining tent. Waterproof.

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18-07-23 - Lison certainly understands camping protocol.

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18-07-23 - Derek actually wrote his novel down a coal mine. In case you were wondering about certain dark and obscure passages.

2018-07-24 Day 2.

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18-07-24 - Drink out of the cup, Isabel. Not direct from the tap.

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18-07-24 - A toast to outdoor life.

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18-07-24 - Ouch! Where's the Deet?

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18-07-24 - Damn nice outhouse.

2018-07-24 To the lighthouse. MnD by bike. Presquile, a good park for radlers.

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18-07-24 - Looks like a pagoda. Same thing on Lake Huron, near Kinkardine where Lison rented a house.

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18-07-24 - Mystery hazard.

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18-07-24 - Old lighthouse keeper's cottage.

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18-07-24 - Museum and gallery.

2018-07-24 At the Beach.

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18-07-24 - Sorry, Isabel. Would have been a great pic.

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18-07-24 - Voyeur.

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18-07-24 - The neighbors.

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18-07-24 - Ready for some serious natation.

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18-07-24 - Hey, no wake.

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18-07-24 - Twinkle-toes.

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18-07-24 - Let's not rush into this.

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18-07-24 -

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18-07-24 - In the warm shallows.

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18-07-24 - Beach-read.

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18-07-24 - Organic sand.

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18-07-24 - Happy face.

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18-07-24 - My windmill won't go round.

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18-07-24 - Hey, no kites allowed on the beach. We're not quite sure why.

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18-07-24 - Little boy blue.

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18-07-24 - Interpretive session.

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18-07-24 - Was once a squirrel.

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18-07-24 - Windblown tresses.

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18-07-24 - Presquile bei nacht.

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18-07-24 - Lison reflects.

2018-07-25 Day 3. Rain.

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18-07-25 - Indoor activities.

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18-07-25 - Lison has something up her sleeve. What, though?

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18-07-25 - Reading to Isabel.

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18-07-25 - Our old JanSport tent, not used.

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18-07-25 - The ferns love it.

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18-07-25 - Route to the facilities.

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18-07-25 - Recall UBC Campus gun access.

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18-07-25 - Better in here, than out there.

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18-07-25 - Near the camp store. Walkies. Shopies, actually. Bought a new camp stove.

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18-07-25 - Stop shoving!

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18-07-25 - Surprise! I have an appointment ... somewhere else.

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18-07-25 - Somewhere dry?

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18-07-25 - Dining tent chit-chat.

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18-07-25 - Lighthouse beach.

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18-07-25 - Trail.

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18-07-25 - Beatrix likes climbing trees.

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18-07-25 - Five, six, pick up sticks.

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18-07-25 - Souvenir shirt shortage.

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18-07-25 - Turtle.

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18-07-25 - Presquile harbour for lunch.

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18-07-25 - Same resto we once visited w NFNC? Or very close by.

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09-09-12 - 2009: Dinner at the marina. With the Niagara Falls Nature Club group.

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09-09-12 - 2009: Brighton bei nacht.

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18-07-25 - The whistling Duck.

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18-07-25 - Inside. Nice colour co-ordination. Including server shirt, towel and chairs in small painting.

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18-07-25 - For the bar collection.

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18-07-25 - Gecko on the post shows way to patio.

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18-07-25 - Eating with a view of the hbr.

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18-07-25 - Not a classic Boy Scout knot. But keeps the punters from going dunkers in the marshy edge of Lake Ontario.

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18-07-25 - What to order?

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18-07-25 - Last chance at the beach.

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18-07-25 - The weather moves past.

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18-07-25 - Round the campfire.

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18-07-25 - We fumigate the campsite.

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18-07-25 - Drying stuff.

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18-07-25 - Looks like penne.

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18-07-26 - Last day. Homeward bound.

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18-07-26 - Sunshine.