Camping Help !!!

I would suggest that you go to this location.

http://www.birchwoodcampground.ca/

It seems that your decision has been made for you and it's not worth upsetting her as she'll make your life a Misery. ;)

But if I was making a decision I would say [b]Where Does Purple What To Go? [/b] :0

Yes I know that it's a lousy place to go but if you don't keep the Monster that is known to everyone else as the Wife, Happy she's going to make your life a [b]Complete Misery.[/b] :-bd

I should add that hopefully when you get there PS will stand on a snake and not poke her head out of the car till you go home and will be asking all the time that you are there [b]Is It Time To Go Home Yet?[/b] Women are never happy when they get their own way. ]:)

Col 0:-)

as opposed to giving Sarah time with just Mom and Dad. The oldest girl just got back from PEI http://www.tourismpei.com/index.php3 plus the middle girl had a week of bible camp a few weeks ago and is spending last week and this week with her dad and one of her girlfriends http://www.brookfieldnovascotia.ca/ So the point is, this is the last little trip we can take the little girl on. Next week will be school shopping and hopefully a trip to New Glasgow to visit some of my family with all the girls http://www.newglasgow.ca/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=36&Itemid=164
that will bring us to the end of our summer.

So...anyone who would like, have a look at http://www.novascotia.com/en/home/default.aspx and let us know if you have any suggestions that we may have overlooked :) !

to her but she turned them away....she said it was just a little too far to travel after work with the 6 yr old in tow...then to set up a tent.

The water on the North side of PEI is always cold...lol...very nice beaches though.

We thought about maybe somewhere near Five Islands or something along the Bay of Fundy....maybe the North Shore on Nova Scotia.

PEI would be nice though...with the bridge, it's only about 2.5 hours to Charlottetown now....with the ferry, it used to take the best part of a day.

http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/about_the_canadian_seal_hunt/

It would certainly be an Education for her.

However it's probably the wrong time of the year and too far away for your present needs. Though maybe next year you could go. :D

Col

she's 6. One of the stipulations is that there are flush toilets on site that are relatively clean. She's had one camping experience this summer but that was to Grammie's cottage over on the north shore. We tented, but Grammie's cottage was right there, she did really well so we thought we would give a true campground a go.

Darryl and I are former avid campers, we would go anywhere pretty much, but she's pretty sheltered by mom and dad so we're trying to go in smaller steps to different types of campgrounds.

grant you, it is beautiful there. Darryl and I drove down to Sydney via the Cabot Trail almost 8yrs ago, it's very pretty down around there. We went in October just as the leaves were starting to turn, it's gorgous!

Edit: To keep folks up to date, I was called today for a job interview on Friday @ 4pm, so keeping closer to home now would be a good thing. I'm thinking closer to Pictou/Caribou maybe?

Sounds fantastic, though. It would certainly be a bit of a hike for me.

Congrats on the job interview - I hope it goes well.

Best wishes in finding a suitable spot.

Oo er, and thanks for the Thumb. ;)

I think we ruled out PEI for this trip....just a little too long of a drive.

That sounds like a nice stop for/if we want to take the ferry over & the bridge back....maybe include James suggestion about Brackley/Cavendish area.

I live 2 hours east of Melbourne. We don't have traffic jams at all. They call us 'country'.

I've seen, maybe once or twice in my life, a backed up roundabout(traffic circle? Don't know what you call them...). I don't know the meaning of hustle-bustle. Ha!

I do plan to, one day, visit the x.ca, only in the summer though. My idea of winter is above freezing point.

Purple's brother & I stayed at a place called "Protection" in the Rocky Mountains....it was the last campsite before the icefields.

It was great....end of July & nightime temperature was below freezing....bears....all kinds of stuff....it was great....loved it.

You'd never talk Purple into that though....although I did drive her through the area a few years ago.....that's just a little too much "on the edge" for her. ;)

but getting down around Kentville is a little far...slower roads but it's a nice area.

Parrsboro, Pictou, Amherst, Stewiacke/Shubenacadie....that's sort of our limit.

So nothing *too* fun.

Just boring enough to not get the attention of the other ones, but not so boring as to have her lose interest.

Cunning plan, you have there.

I always went to the one in Pugwash but it was July 1st.

http://www.pugwashvillage.com/gathering.html

I grew up a couple of miles from the Bell Homestead, where the Bell family settled in Canada. Bell did much of his experiemntation there, on summer leave from his teaching in job in Boston. His first long distance call was in the same area.

He semi retired to Baddeck but always kept working, and helped create the Silver Dart -first airplane to fly in Canada, along with the famous Glen Curtis. He had started experiments with large kites before the Wright Brothers flew.

James

Cape Breton already got ruled out. The Alexander Graham Bell museum isn't really a "day" thing anyway....it's more like a "stop" on the way to Sydney or Louisburg.

Purple & I would like that stuff....I don't think the 6 yr old would though.

most of the people are very nice also.

It's just a nice place to visit.

We had a bear incident a few years back at one of our favorite parks. We are in a popup trailer, but we still sleep under canvas.

A couple of sites over they didn't listen to the bear warnings everyone got. They ignored the bear traps.

First night the bear trashed their place cause they had left their smores supplies out.

Second day they went fishing and caught some nice ones, had them for dinner. Left their dirtty fishy dishes out while they went to a wildlife discussion at the ampitheatre (irony coming). Bear trashed heir place again.

This time we were awake, so we followed protocol - get out of your tent/trailer, stand tall, yell and make noise. We did. We even surrounded the campsite - with a little room to spare since we didn't want to crowd the bear. The rangers came along and shot at the bear with a paintball gun with rubber balls. It took 5 or 6 hits to get the bear to move on, then he broke into a gallop.

Bears don't traditionally hunt humans for food, but bears near parks often become dependant on human food, and will ignore humans to get to it. So as long as you are neat, don't have food in your tent or trailer (we stow ours in the van) you should be ok.

I've also done some wilderness camping in the same area, but bears in the "wild" are more likely to flee unless you are close to their cubs. I talked with one canoe trip guide who said in 12 years of tripping all summer, he'd never seen a bear, though he had heard a couple of them running away. When we canoe camp, the food is strung up by rope high above the ground, and at least 100 yards from the tent.

James

suggested it before I even posted the question here.

It's just a little too far for us this time around.....I'd much rather go in about a months time....the leaves would be changing by then.

right here in Nova Scotia we have Christmas Island :)

It's in Cape Breton.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_Island,_Nova_Scotia

She said it was great & that our little girl would love it.

Good pick G-Man....a little outside our 2 hour limit though...but should be able to fit it in some weekend before it gets too cold.

we really should take some pics tonight and tomorrow and post them on a site for folks to have a look at. The cottage itself may not be much to look at, but the beach is incredible. The girls and I often scan the beach for beach glass. Once in while we get lucky and see a couple seals too :) .

A couple weeks ago, when we were down, Sarah made a new friend; it would be really nice if that new friend and her family was there as well.