Sunday 28 July 2013

Fish from Delaware Seashore State Park and Cape Henlopen


toad fish very hard to take off hook  and have very strong jaws that can crack oysters


small shark off the Cape Henlopen pier

taking the hook out!


Delaware Seashore State Park, Rehoboth Beach, Delaware


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Stayed at Delaware Seashore State Park.  We also drove into Cape Henlopen to fish at the pier.

basically a parking lot - but.... we had a tree!

Delaware Seashore, the beach across the street from the campground!

This park is basically a parking lot. We had site 304, which had little traffic and the only two trees in the whole park. But... the beaches nearby are gorgeous. Bethany Beach is a really nice, clean little boardwalk/beach area. There is surf fishing, and fishing in the river right from the campground. Bathrooms are clean and fairly new. Park is quiet at night. Short drive to Rehoboth Beach and all the shopping, so definitely some pluses.
Hit a good sale at the outlets at Rehoboth Beach!
Love going into that area. Also drove to Bethany Beach, and walked around that little boardwalk/beach area. Just gorgeous. Neat and clean. It would be hard to stay at this campground in a tent or tent trailer, and is mostly large motorcoaches/fifth wheels. We were here during a heat wave, and it helps to run the air. We had stayed at Cape Henlopen before, without power and air, and really felt it, and also had a major tick infestation, which kept us away this time. We did drive there and fish off the pier, which is the greatest fishing in the area.
 
Cape Henlopen: The greatest pier in the world! You can crank in the fish! The perfect campground would be a mix between Cape Henlopen and Delaware Seashore....
A man gave Trent all these sand fleas for fishing. Sand fleas look like little crabs, about an inch long, that have a shell all the way around them, so they have lots of armour. We went to a Delaware Beach, and Trent was fishing and using them. My mom was lying down on a blanket, and she was asleep. So I thought, maybe I should take some sand fleas and put them on my mom's back. Before that day, she was giving me massages, so she thought it was a massage. Until Trent put one down my mom's bathingsuit and she felt the legs crawl on her. Then she realized it was a sand flea. She screamed. We laughed....
It's all fun and games, until someone puts a sand flea down your back!
The car story: Trent and Dad went down to go fishing. Me and my mom were supposed to come down at sunset in the truck to take pictures. So me and my mom got into the truck and started it up. She drove straight into a pole. There were no dents in the truck, but a few scratches. The neighbours said, “no one saw that....” but when we came back my mom had to park in a small area with a tree next to it. She drove into the parking spot and there was a branch about 3 inches long. The branch screeched and scratched across the top...   Mom got in trouble~

Bridge lit up at night beside Delaware Seashore
 

 


Friday 19 July 2013

Otter Lake Resort, Pocono Mountains, Pennsylvania

VERY windy, steep hills getting in – at least 6 miles of them. The entrance to one says “no trailers over 28 feet”, so be careful. You need VERY good brakes and a very good driver.  Luckily, we had Dad!   The campground is lovely - with outdoor and indoor pools, fishing and small beach. Trent liked fishing here in the small lake, and Will is living in the swimming pool. 



Really grew on us. Sites are big and wooded, which was great in the extreme heat.  Temperatures have been about 95 every day!    Well-spaced apart. Lots of activities, which are also very spread out across the park. Huge park.  We really like it here! 


 Otter Lake Rocks!  small bass in the morning, big one at night




The diving was great! There is a nice big pool, with a diving board. People were doing flips and dives.




One activity was baseball,it was lots of fun!I hit really far.

a very warm lake  where I caught the 2 bass
The nice pool at otter lake

swimming all day!


The sites were nice and big,  (rows A,B,C,D are great) there are lots of activities, and movies to watch at night.

Oneida Shores Park, near Syracuse, New York



Heat Wave!
The Beach


Oneida shores – great if you have a boat – want to pop it in and out and go fishing. If not, it is more of a parking lot. We were here during a hot spell and the beach was closed due to e-coli- so check before, just to make sure the beach is open – that makes a difference. Not a lot of sites – but far enough apart, grass, and gravel, so was great. Private and quiet. Wouldn't stay here for a long period of time, but just off the highway, near Syracuse, so great for a couple of nights, or one-night stop over on the way to somewhere else.