We've booked our campsites at Cultus Lake for the May and July long weekends. Bookings began April 1, and I made my first booking for May long weekend on April 2. It took all day to get through to the switchboard. Thinking the lines to the booking office must be really busy, I decided to book the July long weekend, too. "They had two spots left"! for the full hookups, ie. water, electricity, sewage. There are 108 full hookup sites, and 133 sites without a thing, except a fire pit.
I then booked two weeks for end of July and was lucky enough to get good sites for all three bookings.
348 Seasonal sites, 104 Full Hook ups, 133 tenting sites
We have our name on the list to get a "seasonal spot" which is a payment of about $2,000 to have a campsite from May 1 to end of September. We are 107 in a list of 150, but only 20 new spots came up for renewal this year.
There are a few beautiful waterfront spots, but without electricity and water, and we have stayed in them before, since our trailer is self sufficient.
Except, all the poop gets stored in holding tanks, where we need to go to a special place to pump it out, and the battery power lasts barely three days, used sparingly.
Last year, however, our holding tanks backed-up, either due to our stupidity in using "real" toilet paper, instead of the expensive trailer kind you should use, or the capacity at the lake was "FULL", and the campgrounds own huge holding tanks underneath the ground got full. Sabrina had brought along a friend, who we also suspected of flushing down her sanitary napkins. Never, ever do that.
Here's what it looks like to have poop boil back up to the ground. They use this really potent deodorizer that stinks to high hell, like Bingo night for seniors.
Here's what they needed to bring in to unplug the mess we made:
Well, you know me, I complained and complained, look at the mess "YOU" made, and we had to move, the inconvenience, etc. etc. We got 4 free days out of the deal.
This year, I plan to stock up on the expensive toilet paper, $4.00 per pack of 4 rolls.
