Killbear Provincial Park; Now We Like It

Yesterday we drove around the south end of the Georgian Bay to Killbear Provincial Park. We (blue dot) are now pretty much directly across the bay from where we were at Wiarton (red pin).

We knew they had a boil water alert at the park and we stopped and bought drinking water on our way. It was a long drive in the hot sun. Our site is close to the end of the peninsula the park is on and it was a fifteen minute drive from the gate to our site.

What we didn’t know was that the water tap close to our site did not have a threaded nozzle, so we couldn’t fill our tank for showers, etc. A fellow camper told us the trailer tank water fill station was all the way back the entrance road, almost to the gate.

So Bud had to drive back out of the very narrow campground roads and then 15 minutes back to the fill station, which had no signage and we would have missed if we hadn’t been told it was there.

But while Bud was filling the tank I took Matey to stretch his legs and in a few minutes we came to the shore and this view. Okay, this place has potential.

And this is our very nice site which has a shaded area for my screen tent. It also has 50 amp service, though the website said it was just 30 amps. That was great because the interior of the trailer was 91 degrees after being pulled for five hours in the eighty plus degree heat. Bud cranked on both the air conditioners and by supper time had it down to near 70.

Matey and I walked down to the little boat launch after supper.

It was pretty, but not as nice as the shoreline we’d walked to earlier.

Then this morning the three of us walked down to the end of the peninsula, Lighthouse Point. Ahh, that’s better.

Matey is doing pretty well, but when the trail turned this stony we didn’t think he could handle it.

Bud agreed to sit and wait with him while I explored the end of the loop.

It got very stony,

and very pretty.

I found the lighthouse and found the trail back the other side was much easier, so next time we can all get to the end.

So we are pretty happy with this place now.