We barely backed the camper into site #112 when the locals came to visit. Apparently we are on a daily visitation route since they came back at the same time both nights.
They stayed for maybe about half an hour, especially when we started feeding them. We just gave them one slice of bread just to thank them for visiting. I'm sure the regular visitors feed them constantly. They were fat!!
Kay with her band of quackers.
There was a male duck in the group who was the dominant male. When we fed one of his group members instead of him, he angrily bit their tail feathers, even though it was our fault that we fed that duck. We often threw a piece to the member who was farthest away just to make sure they got their share. The dominant male would take food right out of your hand if you let him. The bravest I got was to drop a piece an inch or two from the air and have him catch it.
Random pretty leaf.
A nice view of our camper and camp site with the fall trees in nice color.
Our little friends eventually got tired of us and flew back into the pond and swam away. They disappeared in seconds.
A nice roaring fire.
The sun shed a little bit more evening light on the trees across the lake giving them an electric glow of orange.
Electric glow of last rays of sunlight while a random canoe passes by.
Last rays of sun.
Moonlight reflecting on the water. Play with the aperture, speed and ISO and you get all kinds of different results.
I turned down the ISO and sped up the shutter and you can see more accurately how dark it is on the lake. I still could not get the details of the moon in the photo. It shows up as a "dark sun" when it's really a bright moon.
View of the trees over our camper:
Trees at our campsite.
Trees at our campsite.
Another view of the camper and the campsite. We could not see or hear any other camper at this time of year, but even with the campground full, we would expect this site to be pretty quiet and private.
View of our campsite from between ours and the next campsite.
This is a view of the lake from our campsite. You can barely see into the campsite next door because there is so much vegetation in the way.
View of the bathrooms from the site next to us. This would have also been a good site but we didn't need to be so close to the neighbors. I thought the bathrooms would be pit toilets but they are regular flush toilets. They don't have hot water or paper towels though so it's cold. The campground had to close soon after we were there because the temperature starts dropping below 32 degrees and these bathrooms need to be winterized.
This is a shot of the campsite next door (site #111 or 110?). It also would have been nice but
A view of our campsite from the camp road. While the main campground roads are paved, the sites are not and they are pretty warn in. Also, there are a lot of trees so you may have trouble backing a big rig in to one of these sites. A fifth wheel parked a couple sites down from us and I think it took them an hour to back in to the spot. I wasn't sure they were going to make it but somehow they did. We had trouble just getting our relatively small rig in this campsite.
View of our campground loop. The spot straight ahead is where the fifth wheel parked later in the day.
Random trees overhead.
Random other campsite on our loop. Some of the sites had steep driveways and trees preventing long rigs from getting in them.
Random campsites in the neighborhood. Some campsites especially along the lake edge were very nice but other sites were just plain yucky or odd. There was a huge variation. This site does not look well used because you couldn't even see a "driveway" where somebody parked. Sometimes the spaces weren't even flat enough that you could figure out where to put a tent. Perhaps a backpacker or a cross-country bike might use a spot like this, but certainly not an RV, 2 cars or a large tent.
Site #98 doesn't look too bad either.
Another site.
Another campsite.
There was a handicap access fishing deck along the lake. This time of year, we had it all to ourselves.
A walk along the road near loops A, B and C and the campground entrance.
Walking to the other side of the campground to loops A, B and C.
The campsites on loops A, B and C were closer together, less used, and less desirable in general. The only plus was that there was nobody around so you could be as noisy as you wanted. There were 2 people camping in this area.
Site #92 would show on a map as being near the water, but it's quite a hike to the water and you can't entirely see it from your campsite. As a bonus, the people on the opposite side of the lake where we were are not going to see tent after tent on the other side of the lake.
Some red trees on fire across the lake. The sky was overcast and came out completely washed out white. I'm not sure why other photographers claim they love cloudy and overcast skies.
Furry caterpillar.
The bottle caps stuck to this table gave us an indication of what this campground may be like during the busy season.
Sites at this loop were very close together. You can see about 6 or more sites from this spot. If it was a busy weekend, there would probably be wall to wall tents in site. Many of these sites were too small for RVs and meant mostly for small tents. Barely enough room for a car and a tent. Most sites were covered with grass and no tire tracks indicating that they were not well used.
There were some brightly colored leaves in the forest. I don't know what kind of tree this is.
