Family, then & now. El Nino and stocking the lakes at Santee.

January 1st - 15th, 2016

Happy New Year to all.  Lets start with some cute pictures of Trystan.

Tinnie had to go and this was the nearest place for him!!!!!

I have been known to sleep just like this.

Here's two wedding pictures of his paternal great great grandparents, Sue's paternal grandparents.

Charles & Elizabeth Varney on their wedding day, July 1st 1923

Here is a VIDEO showing my hometown, most of it before my time.  The church is where a lot of my family got married including my mum and dad and I was a bridesmaid for my Aunt Jean.  A lot of memories for me.

Back to the present time……..

January 5th, 2016

The heavens opened and the rain poured, causing flooding at the campground.  El Nino had arrived.

The view from our side window, not too bad

However, the road on the other side of the motorhome was now a stream!!!

January 7th, 2016
Two days later and we still had some problems.  It's a good job that the campground wasn't fully booked.

At least you can see the road now

There was mud and debris left behind

There were mini lakes in many of the campsites, fortunately a lot of the flooded campsites were empty.

There was a raging stream of water flowing through the ravine behind the dog run.  There is normally no water here and it had subsided from a couple of days ago.  This is actually outside the park and we think the coyotes probably have a den here as they were seen in the campground during the day for a few days as their den was probably under water and they were desperate for food.  Bryan & some of the volunteers became the "Coyote Wranglers" steering them back out of the campground on more than one occasion.  They are known to come through during the night but we haven't seen them during the day before.

This was the stream that flows through the campground.  It cleared up very quickly.

This little fellow looks as though he is looking for something!!

The area by the side of the motorhome dried up pretty quickly as well.

January 9th, 2016

Ryan, Christina and Trystan came to visit and after all the rain we went for a walk.  Well, Ryan rode his bike.  

Trystan wrapped up well with Mickey for company

January 11th, 2016

As the sun was starting to go down today the sky was beautiful.  This picture really doesn't reflect it fully but it was beautiful. 

January 12th, 2016

Today's picture of Trystan.  He's looking so grown up. 

 

January 13th, 2016

Trystan is 4 months old today, pictured with Woody.

January 14th, 2016

Aimee made straight "A's" again at school.  She is also part of the chess team and has been made Postmaster of the post office for her school which has recently become a micro-society school.  All is good in Aimee's world and we are very proud of her. 

Here she is "dressed for success" and ready to interview fellow students as employees of the post office. 

January 15th, 2016

Two of the lakes at the park were stocked with trout today.  They do this quite frequently but this is the first time Bryan managed to get pictures.  

The truck arrived with the trout

The trout are fed into the lake through a tube 

There are three in this picture

 While he was out Bryan went around the park and got more pictures.

There is a playground for people with disabilities, we are very happy about this.

This egret keeps appearing outside the park by the road.

Floating cabins for rent

RV's in the park, lakeside view

The stream in our loop

Bye for now, take care.