I have never camped before in my life. And for our first time camp trip we went to Awenda Provincial Park, Ontario. We went without reservation, but we made sure that there were still available sites the night before and we checked again before we left the house that day by checking the Ontario parks website. We left the house really early too to make sure that we get a campsite. And sure enough when we got there we were ones of the few lucky ones to get those last first come first serve campsite spots. The campsite we got was in Snake campground, a radio and pet free campground.
After the registration, We went to the beach. Since we got there early we got a really nice spot. They have 4 beaches in Awenda Provincial Park. Most of the reviews I read online, people like beaches 3 and 4. But we found out that it was a bit of a walk to get there. Like 15 to 20 minute walk from the parking. Beaches 1 and 2 are the closest to the parking. As soon as we got there the kids couldn’t wait anymore to jump in the water, so we ended up staying at beach 2 which is where the dog beach is. The water is so clear and sandy. And enjoyed every bit of it.We left before noon as the beach got really crowded and we’ve been there for awhile.
can you spot me and my daughter? 🙂
see how clear the water is? and yes its warm. Just perfect for swimming.
Our campsite at Snake Campground. Campsite #289 for one night.
My son enjoying the campsite
Me and my daughter playing cards. We also played badminton and we have more than enough space.
After setting up our stuff in our campsite, My husband was able to do BBQ then we had our lunch, rested for a bit and we went back to the beach around 4:30 pm and waited for the sunset. We ended up at beach 2 again, but passed the dog beach part.
me and my daughter sitting on a huge rock waiting for the sunset
Then we headed back to the campsite. I was really nervous about the sleeping part. I was thinking of sleeping in the back of our van at first but they all wanted to sleep in the tent so majority won, fine! the tent it is. My daughter slept first, then my husband and son started snoring, and I’m between them! How the heck will I get some sleep! There was a moment that the wind was so hard that I thought it was raining because of the sound its making. I had to wake up my husband to put the tent fly back on. But the next morning we realized it was the trees making those rain like sound. Thought that was funny!
Still didn’t get much sleep! The sky was starting to get brighter, thats when I finally felt safe to sleep. As I slowly fall into my sleep my daughter woke up and announced that she wanted to go to the washroom. My husband stood up and took her to the washroom. And you know the camping bed when someone moves, everything moves. Hahahahahah! I didn’t get to sleep at all.
Regardless of that, we really had so much fun camping. My husband loves BBQ’ing, I love the fact that the beach is so close and if we want to bike, there are trails for that. We fell in love with it so much that we booked 3 more times and stayed longer.
campsite ground
Our swim before we headed home. Not a lot of people that sunday. It was cloudy, No waves, the beach was very quiet. Water is still warm and clear.
We passed by Pentanguishine on our way home to have some fish and chips.
fish and chips at Penetanguishine. Awesome!
Second camping trip in Awenda Provincial park.
We went to Kettle lake first thinking we could bike around the trail beside it but we saw that bikes are not allowed on the trail there. We saw kids with their parents boating. We really want to do the same maybe next summer. It is pretty huge and its really pretty too.
me and the kids
We headed to the beach after Kettle lake. We were lucky to get our favourite spot in beach 2 again.
This was our campsite. Back in Snake campground, this time we are in #310 which we reserved online
Privacy wasn’t that good but the campsites in Snake campground are far apart so it wasn’t that bad at all.
washrooms in awenda.
Getting dirty and I let him be
Went back to the beach in the afternoon and had lunch there. I don’t know about you but food does really taste better by the beach.
Back in Awenda PP again for the third time.
We wanted to go back again in Awenda but I have been checking online and there was none available. I kept checking and checking and one became available. I booked it as soon as I saw it available. This one is in Hawk Campground, Site #75. The privacy was poor, it even says on the website when you reserve it. Its open to the road and the 2 campsites across it. But we used our car to block one and used the huge tent we just bought to block the other, it turned out fine. We had our privacy. It was across the water faucet and close to the washrooms. We stayed here for 2 nights.
My husband doing his BBQ
Brule Trail.
first time s’mores for this girl.
We went camping again for the last time for the summer but we tried a different Park. We were supposed to go to Port Burtwell because we wanted to go to Lake Erie where the water is warmer but because of the longer drive we cancelled our reservation and changed it to MacGregor point Provincial Park.
HOUSE OF BENGBENG
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House of Beng Beng 