Keep Calm and Camp on seems to be the catch phrase for this year’s camping season. It certainly was the way of the campground at Medicine Lake while we were there. We were there for a full 9 days and during that time we found fellow campers were calm and taking things in stride, as […]... Read More

HI Everyone, Camping during Covid19 with a new Dog is certainly different and tiring. We are now two trips in and have found that the first trip was the better of the two, in the sense of practicing social distancing. Our first trip to Sibball lake was the best in terms of distancing, every second […]... Read More

Meet our newest family member, Finn the Dog. Finn is a 26 month old Welsh springier spaniel, with boundless energy and love. He came to us through Lorraine’s best friend, who inherited him from her ex-husband when he died. Jackie unfortunately already had two dogs and two cats and the five of them were not […]... Read More

Hi Everyone, Post Covid19 - Plan C and another trip to the West Coast, well if nothing else this Covid19 pandemic makes for interesting times. How plans change. Once again We have had to change our plans amidst this pandemic and reevaluate what we are doing for the summer. First off it looks like we […]... Read More

Post Covid19? and Our change in plans..Well it is official, Today I got an email from BC parks stating that camping season in BC will be open to residents only, and all others will be on the bottom of the list for any camping sites this year. So, it looks like our Plan A camping […]... Read More

Post Covid19? Camping Season begins...Well who would have thought two months ago that there was going to be a camping season. Well much to my surprise it appears that camping season is on. In Alberta Campground bookings opened up post pandemic on May 14th, 2020, I think much to the surprise of the Albertan Camping […]... Read More

Covid19 Wow! No Matter where you are or who you are Covid19 is affecting you in some way. Listening to the news here in Calgary on a daily basis, life appears surreal, on one hand they are preaching the end of the world but intermixed with the normal mix of weather and traffic and of […]... Read More

Camping Season Cancelled? Never...? Wow all because of a virus!  19 days ago i was lauding the start of booking season and getting ready for spring. How life can change in a blink of an eye. Has the Coronavirus impacted your life yet? Here in Calgary we are just starting our climb into pandemic. Currently […]... Read More

The Alberta Government has released it plans to reduce the amount of Parks and make systemic cuts to the Alberta Park system all in the name of saving 5 million dollars. To me this seems short sighted. To delist a third of our parks and either shut them down, reduce services, or privatize them will […]... Read More

The Alberta Campdown is on! Yesterday the Provincial Government made it official and announced the date that individual campsites can be booked. March 17th is the day that bookings will open. This is a month later than last year for some reason, I am sure it has to do with cut backs; alas Alberta is […]... Read More