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It was a great week-end camping in Goderich. It rained on Friday evening, but apparently not as bad as it did here, as I heard that there were some tornadoes. Yikes!

The weather really cleared up and became nice on Saturday night and Sunday. We spent one day at the Maitland River and the other day on the trails in Goderich, then at the beach. Awesome.

We ate like kings with our camping companions. Because of the rain, and everything at our site being wet, we had to bring our share of the chow to them, which I found to be an imposition. I really hope that next time we can either figure out how to fix the pop-up canopy, or even purchase a dining tent (with at least 2 walls...) better yet, hopefully it won't rain!

With the storm, the park became a shanty town, and I'd have to guess that there was thousands of dollars worth of tarps protecting everything from campers, camp fires, tents, picnic tables, and canopies. There were tarps tied to trees, posts, campers, signs posts, and my favorite: the side mirror of cars. People can really be creative when faced with rain and given some rope and a tarp.

The first night we were next to a seriously disturbed guy who decided at about 2 am to start his big ass diesel truck every 5 to 20 minutes for 2 hours. When someone finally had enough and yelled for him to give it a rest, he yelled back, 'Eye for an eye, brother!" I also should mention that he was hammered, swaying really bad. Although his site was a good 15 metres from ours and separated by trees, I could see him fairly clearly in the break of the trees where the electrical outlets are. A few times he staggered toward our site, I felt like he was staring at me. Creepy! Also, there were 3 bikes on the site, yet I never saw a wife or any kids. He also had a 19 inch TV in his crap pull-behind. Weird! The rain drove him away, he may have been kicked out, as I discovered after gossiping with some surrounding campers that there were several complaints.

Good times, pictures to follow!