Camp meet camper

This is my first post in what I hope is an ongoing account of my attempt to bring Laurieland II back to full-functioning status.

A bit of history:

Laurieland II, or the camp, as it's better known, is located in Lower East Chezzetcook, Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia. It's on Meisner's Lake (aka Big Lake) and about 100 metres away is the sandbar that is Long Beach on the Atlantic Ocean.

The camp originally belonged to my Uncle Bill and Aunt Mary Patterson. When Aunt Mary died in 1996 it was willed to my father, the late, great Laurie R. Patterson. Dad re-christened it Laurieland II to signal his return to Chezzetcook. Growing up, I spent every summer at our family camp (the original Laurieland) in the Head of Chezzetcook, which my parents sold in the early '90s.

Dad was excited to be back but sadly only enjoyed a couple of years there. Cancer caught up with him in 1999.

Dad's death, a brother living out of the province, me going back to school and starting my career and 2003's Hurricane Juan all led to the camp being neglected and deteriorating to the point that it's uninhabitable.

But I have a plan. And that plan includes my new-to-me 1961 Avion camper.

Camp meet camper. Now let's have some fun.