daveB110
British Columbia, Canada
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Joined: 04/19/2004
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Lauren,
Good to hear of you again, and that you folks had some good times in B.C. last year. Here on the coast we're getting 55 F. over night, and 70 F. in the afternoon. But it cools off fast and the sunshine of late is, alas, about to end. In a couple of weeks we just will not get warm again until at least mid to late February.
June here this year was the "coldest on record." Some plants in our back yard are doing now what they usually do in August. Climate change is apparently upon us, as witnessed by friends who ventured to Baffin Island this summer and had hiking curtailed to some extent by bridges that had been in place for years being washed out by great torrents of icemelt, and the Parks people were constantly issuing warnings about the unusual numbers of polar bears on the land that normally were away on ice floes.
Nevertheless the winters here seem to be mild (we're away) as the banana in our backyard survived and is flourishing, with eight "pups" poised to add to the plantation next growing season, despite my neglecting to cover them at all, last winter.
We will be be doing a drive-through of areas formerly resident to some of our forefathers, east of St. Louis and in southeastern Ohio, next spring on the drive north from Mexico, to eastern Canada, to visit grandchildren. I realize that things will not be quite the same there as when they lived there, generations ago!
I will add my admiration to the others who have mentioned Haynes Point near Osoyoos. We always visited in September, it is always on our places to visit while in our Interior. Besides being extremely busy (even with a one week camping limit, if I remember corectly) it can get very warm in that area during the summer months, often making it to the lofty position as the warmest place in Canada for the day.
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paulj
Seattle
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Joined: 06/11/2007
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The Washington state park at the south end of the lake is nice, though all the sites are on a well manicured lawn.
We stayed at Haynes Pt on the return trip to Washington some years ago. This was on a weekend in mid June, shortly before schools were out. In contrast to most other campgrounds that trip, this one had a large number of families in tents. Fortunately there were a few empty spots. We got one on the inner circle, with a good fence of rose bushes, but still too close to our neighbors and their music. The best thing was the kayak paddle in the marsh south of the point.
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John & Angela
Full Timers in Canada, USA and Mexico
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Well here's a little balance on the Desert Gem. We stay there every year on the way south and have never had a bad experience yet. We use it as a prestaging point before heading south of the border. The staff is always great, the park is always clean and although a little tight on some of the corners in my opinion it is far from a Walmart Parking lot. Hopefully it was just one of those annomalies. We'll continue to leave it on our highly recomended list. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
John and Angela
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Anyoltime
Strathmore,AB
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Desert Gem has always been a great place to stay and I have only seen a curt answer given out once.As I told the staff the individual should have been thrown out on his butt,they take way too much******from discourteous people who don't like rules.Well run.clean,and fun place,coffee group is always fun and informative.I do not have any interest in this park.If you don't reserve early you don't get a winter site.You get what you give.
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