Camping at Dugan Lake

 

We'd been planning to camp at Horsefly Lake with our friends for weeks, but all of us kept having appointments in town, so we decided instead to camp at Dugan Lake (second annual).  It's only a 17 minute drive from town so we could each drive back into town as required.  In fact after my band practice on Monday night I switched the pickup for my car to save on gas for the next trip into town.

We arrived early in the day and managed to snag the best site in the campground.

The only site that's right on the lake

Most people like to camp right next to each other in the level sites in the meadow at the entrance to the campground which are more suitable to large rigs, but we like the sites that are in the trees.  Most of them are perched up above the lake but this site you drive down to the lake.  

Last year a fifth wheel was parked on this site and the occupees would show up mid-afternoon and hang around for a few hours and then take off at supper time.  They weren't even staying overnight!  Then when I got home I checked the website and they showed a photo of the exact same rig and setup to advertise the rec site! 

The culprits (note 2016 date - they'd been there for at least 5 years!)

 I figured they had some kind of deal with the camphost to occupy the site all summer and would be hogging the best site this year too.  

But there was a new host this year who was presumably enforcing the 2-week maximum and we snagged it!  In fact, we fantasized staying for the full 14 days and just driving into town to do our business as required. (In the end we went home after 3 nights.)

Leo just had carpet tunnel surgery so we didn't bring a boat, but we went out in Mark and Patty's boat a few times.  Last year the fishing was so good people were giving us fish, but this year they were not biting (or it may have had something to do with the ineptness of the fishermen).

Patty and Mark return empty-handed.

We did lots of short walks around the campsite and up the adjacent atv trail.

May and June (endless) showers bring flowers:

Clematis

Lots of Arnica in bloom

We also found calypso orchid but I neglected to photograph it.

Made some good camp meals over the fire.

Mom, cheesy jaffles

And we needed a good fire since much of the time it was cold and windy.

Leo tends the fire

Woke up to this view out our bedroom window:

A damsels landed on my wrist.

Not a bad life.