My Seadoo And Summer Camping Weekends
Saturday, August 15, 2009
By Josh Brodderick
Every summer, every Friday, I have the same old routine. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE the same old routine. It's a little hard for me to concentrate on work for the entire day, because I'm so excited about the weekend ahead. I'm talking about packing up my SUV with my camping and fishing gear, hitching up my seadoo trailer, and driving up to the lake for the weekend where I spend some get away time just hanging out and cruising around the lake on my pwc.
Every weekend of the warm summer months (except for the occasional wedding that we have to attend) I get out of town with my camp gear all packed up, and my seadoo hooked up and covered ready for trailering. This is my favorite time of year, and it seems that every year I convince another one of my friends to buy a seadoo and join my growing gang of buddies who also spend their weekends camping and seadooing.
The campground that me and my buddies have chosen as this years permanent weekend spot is about a 2 hour drive away. That means that I can finish up work a half hour early on Friday, and barring any cottager traffic jams I make it up to the site in time to setup the tent and put the seadoo into the lake in time for a quick spin. This still gives us time to get supper started before dark. If we start the campfire at the same time, the timing works out so we always eat our first meal of the weekend by campfire light.
The first day of the weekend is when I get the whole mini-vacation started. First thing Saturday morning I usually get up by myself so I can get out on the lake just to do a tour and see what's new in the last week. I take a travel cup of coffee with me, and get on the seadoo at super low speed so I can do the rounds without disturbing too many of my neighbors with the high speed pwc driving by. It takes about an hour, but then I make my way back to the campsite and join the family for a typical camping big breakfast.
I think that my buddies and I have just about the best seadoo outings on the lake of anyone else I know. If you have a few buddies to ride with, the seadoo activities you can do are endless. Sometimes we throw out some buoys to make a slalom course, other times we just end up holding doughnut and 360 competitions. Of course we don't take it overboard, and safety is our primary thought.
Sunday afternoons always seem to arrive by surprise and fair too early. Generally by 4pm, I have had my final Seadoo ride and I'm beginning to tear down the camp site. Any fish that hasn't been consumed is divvied up amongst the group and packed in ice for the trip home. With sadness we put our Seadoo covers on our Seadoo PWCs and make our way back to city.
Every weekend of the warm summer months (except for the occasional wedding that we have to attend) I get out of town with my camp gear all packed up, and my seadoo hooked up and covered ready for trailering. This is my favorite time of year, and it seems that every year I convince another one of my friends to buy a seadoo and join my growing gang of buddies who also spend their weekends camping and seadooing.
The campground that me and my buddies have chosen as this years permanent weekend spot is about a 2 hour drive away. That means that I can finish up work a half hour early on Friday, and barring any cottager traffic jams I make it up to the site in time to setup the tent and put the seadoo into the lake in time for a quick spin. This still gives us time to get supper started before dark. If we start the campfire at the same time, the timing works out so we always eat our first meal of the weekend by campfire light.
The first day of the weekend is when I get the whole mini-vacation started. First thing Saturday morning I usually get up by myself so I can get out on the lake just to do a tour and see what's new in the last week. I take a travel cup of coffee with me, and get on the seadoo at super low speed so I can do the rounds without disturbing too many of my neighbors with the high speed pwc driving by. It takes about an hour, but then I make my way back to the campsite and join the family for a typical camping big breakfast.
I think that my buddies and I have just about the best seadoo outings on the lake of anyone else I know. If you have a few buddies to ride with, the seadoo activities you can do are endless. Sometimes we throw out some buoys to make a slalom course, other times we just end up holding doughnut and 360 competitions. Of course we don't take it overboard, and safety is our primary thought.
Sunday afternoons always seem to arrive by surprise and fair too early. Generally by 4pm, I have had my final Seadoo ride and I'm beginning to tear down the camp site. Any fish that hasn't been consumed is divvied up amongst the group and packed in ice for the trip home. With sadness we put our Seadoo covers on our Seadoo PWCs and make our way back to city.
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