Tuesday, 1 August - Mackinaw Mill Creek CG, Mackinaw

White Rabbits!!  ABDIP, sunny and hot, 25C.   We pack up and are ready to move to our new site before 11 am.  I walk to the office to organise it all, as we noticed there wasn’t much room up there to turn the coach around.  Contrary to what we were told yesterday we now need to come back, say between 11.30 and 12 after the supervisor has cleared the board of goings and comings for the new day.  So I walk back grumpily - it was a long way, I was hot, it was dusty and I had to dodge traffic and bikes all the way, plus I was gone 30 minutes!

We sit around inside in the AC, make a coffee, do some computer stuff and research more places where we should go.

In the end we take the coach back up to the office to get our new site pass and receipt etc.  They try and fob us off with a site just a couple along from where we were last night, but yesterday the assistant showed us we would be down by the lake!!  Then, because we are grumpy, both of us, we dispute the $4.00 reservation fee they charged for both nights!  Felt slightly mollified after that.  I bet they were pleased to see the back of us from the office!

Kim declined to go over to Mackinaw Island today, but we will see if we feel more like it when we get to the UP, another ferry leaves from there.

Our new site is next to a cabin on one side, it’s empty so far and we can look out our front window and see the lake and the bridge.  It is hot enough today to warrant a swim so we take chairs, the lilo, books etc down to the lake edge and ensconce ourselves there for the afternoon.  The water was nice, coolish but it was hot enough out to win the argument.  The lake where we swam had a stony bottom, not a nice smooth sandy beach, but the water was refreshing and really clear.

The breeze picked up and the geese (Canadian?) wanted to come ashore and poop everywhere so time to head back to the coach.

Each night the Mackinaw Mill Fire Truck picks up loads of kids, and some big kids too, and drives around the camp, siren sounding!

Mackinaw Mill Fire Truck

Tomorrow we will cross the Big Mac bridge to the Upper Peninsula where we have booked into the Brimley State Park for two nights.  Hope we have cell coverage but if you don’t hear, you know we don’t!