» photo album 2010/0618 ~ Motorhoming! Douglas Provincial Park, SK

Time to try out a ‘new’ destination! We had heard good things about Douglas Provincial Park on the shore of the big man-made Lake Diefenbaker. It’s a 2.5 hour drive with the motorhome and it was the first time with our on-and-off foster kitty Smokey, who’s staying with us again for a while. He did great, not too scared when we were driving and loving the camping as much as all of us 🙂

The campsites in the forested area are all private and it was a short walk to the beautiful beaches. There is a concession stand / store with great homemade food (delicious burger!) right by the main beach. And the lake… just wow!

The next day we tried to walk the Sunset trail, but we were cut off by some flooding. We went back and took the other trail (we think it was how we would’ve come back, but we’re not sure) and after walking through bushes, grassland and a bit of forest, we ended up on some really gorgeous beaches! Again… wow! We decided to follow the beach back to the campground, but were cut off by a swampy part. We at first went too far to the left and ended up walking on clumps of grass but in more and more water… this was not going to work. We went back and stayed closer to the beach (and most importantly in front of the beaver dam) and found a place with less water to go through.  Later on at the campsite we made a fire again and barbecued on it 🙂

Sunday we had to leave again, we visited the nearby town Elbow. We went to the marina and had a great lunch (high quality and creative, but also big and below $10!) at the Boathouse restaurant in town.  A place to visit again!