Saturday, July 23, 2011

CT - Hopeville Pond State Park

 This is a pretty nice state park fairly close to home.  The sites are big, but a little odd shaped and in some areas have little privacy between them.  Still, we had a great weekend and would return again.  We had glorious weather and got to swim, kayak, fish, ride bikes, do some geocaching and some trail running.
We were on site T10, which is one of two with electricity.  Since we just weren't sure if it would be hot, I booked this site...but we ended up not needing A/C.  We determined that there are some nicer sites close to the water and we'd try to get those next time and just camp completely dry.  This site was right next to an outhouse, which didn't always smell the most pleasant, and it was really tricky to back into with the trees and boulders and narrow road.  Had the nice guy who backs trailers for a living not come and guided us (and move a boulder...yeah, tiny guy)...we would have been there for hours trying to back in inch by inch.

 Not to mention, the site was set up so we had to have the camper door facing the opposite way from camp.  kinda weird walking around to the other side all weekend.  So, another site next time for sure.

Theo on his kayak - the camper's beach is in the background.  Nice little beach that we made good use of!

Kevin and Theo...and the tip of my boat.  Glorious looking weather, huh?  It really was that nice!

We've had this old open fire popcorn popper in our basement for years...since we have so much storage space in the Visa, I decided to throw it in the hatch.  The jury is still out as far as where it came from - both Kevin and I recall our parents having one at our respective lake homes growing up...and we both have the same memory of it never having been used - funny.  So either way this thing has to be at least 25-30 years old, and finally saw it's first use...aaaand it works!