Monday, April 30, 2012

Staying at Bay Landing Thousand Trails


We have just left Bay Landing a Thousand Trails campground.  We stopped here to do some paper work for a possible future job called "gate guarding".   It sounds like a pretty good deal and we are looking into it.

So anyways we stopped here because it was close to where we needed to be and it's free.  Well, sort of after you pay your membership fees.  I have to say we have been very pleased with the park.  It is suppose to be their  busy season but there is hardly anyone here.  The rv's that are here don't seem to have any  people.  I think they are long term campers, which means they leave their campers here for the year and come and go.  So you have campers but no people.  Last weekend there were people and kids around but after Sunday we have hardly seen a soul.  It has been so peaceful and quiet.  Except for the birds and the butterflies.  The birds are noisy but the butterflies are pretty quiet.  But they are everywhere.  I figured we would only stay a couple of days and we ended up staying the whole week because we liked it so much.



There was an area to ride the Ranger

There were butterflies everywhere

Plus so many things in bloom

Ed started taking pictures of the flowers and they all had
an insect on them
 

I know nothing about flowers, but
they were pretty


isn't this just a neat bird

When it flies the tail separates like a scissor, thus the name Scissor Tail

our back yard

our front yard
even thought there are rv's around us, we never see anybody
 because most of them are empty

the lizards are out

We came across a lean too hut over in the tent area,
wonder if someone tried to sleep in it

I have to say this has been one of the best TT parks we have been at.  But I am sure there are times when it is really packed.  There is a pretty big lake right next to it and some of these spots have some big boats sitting on them.  But right now it is the place to be.


looking out over the lake

you can see why people come here
There is also a pond.  I just have to tell you Ed's story about the pond.  He went fishing last Friday, in the evening.  There have been quite a few kids at the pond fishing.  He goes to the other side to get away from the kids.  There were 2 girls over there and they were complaining because they weren't catching anything.  They were using hot dogs for bait.  They were using big hunks which were falling off the hook when they threw it in.  Ed said one of the kids thought they saw a fish jumping and it was just the hot dog falling off the hook.  Another kid was eating the bait as fast as the others were fishing.   So, he finally felt sorry for the girls and put a smaller hook on their line and gave them a worm.  Well the one girl catches a fish and starts yelling across the pond to the other kids.  Before you know it the kids were all around him.  He said one was by his side and one was in front of him.  That was the end of his peace-full fishing.

Very nice pond but the fish were very small

We are heading out tomorrow to come back to Indiana.  After being gone all winter, I am ready to go home.  We are only going to be home for about 7 weeks and than we are heading to Georgia for a family reunion.  We may have a buyer for the house, so between that and Dr's app. and Dentist apps.,  it's going to be a fast summer.

We started out on Saturday with almost 1,100 miles to go.  We stopped one night and Ed decides to just make a fast trip out of it.  His back has been bothering him again and he didn't want to take the chance it would get worse and he wouldn't be able to drive at all.  So we would drive an hour or two and than he would lay down for an hour.  So we started out at 8am and we will be in Elkhart around 9am.  It was a long drive but I have to say it is nice to be home.

Love ya, Lyn and Ed

1 comment:

  1. We stopped at Bay Landing on our maiden voyage. It was in November. At that time we didn't realize the gem it was. We liked it and only after we visited other parks did we realize what a great park it was.

    Good luck on the house sale and also we hope Ed's back starts feeling better.

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