Saturday, May 4, 2013

Bronte Creek Provincial Park


This is our first trip out in the Motorhome for the 2013 Season.

We are on our way to Bronte Creek Provincial Park where we will stay while we watch Karen’s Granddaughter “Alyssa” in her gymnastics competition.   Rather than take the major highways, which would be quicker, we take the slower, more scenic route along the back roads.

4270 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124

It is early in the season, but we see a group of motorcyclists out enjoying the day.

4271 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124

During the winter season, CR-124 through Singhampton is usually the first road to be closed due to bad blowing snow conditions.  This occurs so often that they have permanent signage installed and just turn on the flashing lights when the road is closed.

4272 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124 Singhampton 4277 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124 winter road closure sign

No snow today though as the road stretches out before us.  Spring has not sprung yet.  As you can see the trees are still bare.

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The farmers have been busy, plowing and tilling the land getting it ready to plant the seeds.

4283 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124 farm field

I didn’t know that Karen had taken this photo of me driving until I looked at the photos to write this blog.  I will have to be sure to get a photo of her driving (when and if that ever happens).

4286 Bill driving motorhome to Bronte Creek Provincial Park

Saw this large barn mural and this large “whatever” piece of farm machinery.

4288 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124 mural on The Highland Companies barn 4289 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124

We have now wandered our way through the countryside and have arrived in Erin Ontario.

4295 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-124 Erin

Lots of small lakes and streams and well maintained farms are along both sides of the road.

4293 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park Hwy 10 South Orangeville 4294 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park Hwy 10 South Orangeville 4297 motorhome trip to Bronte Creek Provincial Park CR-125 Ideal Training Centre Erin

We get slowed down in construction as we arrive in Milton Ontario.

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Then a few minutes later we arrive at Bronte Creek Provincial Park.

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We have a campsite reservation so we check in at the office.

4352 Bronte Creek Provincial Park sign 4349 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Entrance

We then continued on to our site #219

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We got backed into our site and then started to do our setup.  We are only here for the one night, so we are not going to put down our outdoor mats or get out the Weber Q bbq.

IMG_4323 Bronte Creek Provincial Park our motorhome in our campsite #219 IMG_4326 Bronte Creek Provincial Park our motorhome in our campsite #219

After getting all set up we went for a nice little walk through the campground.  Saw lots of Trilliums.  The Trillium is Ontario’s Provincial Flower.

IMG_4329 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Trillium IMG_4330 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Trillium

There were also plenty of Dog Tooth Violets.

IMG_4337 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Dog Tooth Violet IMG_4341 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Dog Tooth Violet

“Squirt” and “Dumbo” have a nice view out the front window.

IMG_4343 Bronte Creek Provincial Park view from front window of motorhome

They were watching this Red Wing Blackbird.

IMG_4344 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Red-winged Blackbird IMG_4347 Bronte Creek Provincial Park Red-winged Blackbird

Tomorrow we will have to get up early and leave because we want to get to the Gymnasium parking lot before the events get started and get parked before all the cars full of participants and parents start arriving and then we probably wouldn’t get a spot to park the motorhome.

To see all of our photos from today, you can find them all on our FLICKR site.

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