Phew!

We made it through unscathed. Relieved is an understatement. I called our camp neighbours Andrea and Dwight yesterday morning at 10:30am and things were wild but they didn't have anything to report. At around 2pm Dwight called me to say he had just done a walk-around the properties and other than a few big branches we were still holding up. They lost two trees but neither hit the house or shed. Dwight thinks Kharim's rope work on the trees helped keep ours from crashing down.

Holding down the fort

I took a photo today of Kharim and his handiwork. There's another rope behind him attaching the tree to another big one. That one makes a good clothesline. Our power was on this morning in the city so we had no trouble getting packed up to go to the camp. We arrived about noontime and it was very sunny and still very windy. That surprised me a bit because it was hot and calm in the wake of Juan in 2003. The bummer was that the power had just gone out an hour before we arrived.

After Kharim upgraded the poo pipe, we had lunch and then made our way over to the beach. We ran into Doug, Mary, Steve and Tracy on our walk out the road. There are a few more trees down on their properties. And some that were probably leaners from Juan. I think that was a big factor for a lot of the trees on East Chezzetcook Road. We saw a lot down and a lot more leaning. The chainsaws down there have been busy because it looks like many were crossing the road, but were cut and cleaned up before we drove through today.

Anyhoo, the ocean isn't bathwater warm anymore. It's still nice, but not that pre-hurricane warm that I was hoping to get in on. Diego was still liking the water and waves though. The wind was high so we had to bundle him up in a towel after an hour of playing because he started to get too cold. 

I was really hoping we'd get power back so we could spend the night but we were out of luck. After a nice visit to Mary and Doug (and their great baby swing!) we had a yummy barbecue dinner and packed 'er in. 

I did get the driveway mowed and Kharim secured a vent on the trailer and paddled his surfboard across the lake. All in all a good day. Just not as long as I'd have liked.

New sand bucket and lots of waves