Sibbald Point

I'm looking forward to going camping next week.

It will be the first time we will be going camping as a "complete" family. That is, the wife, son and young Tarah will be along. Tarah is deathly afraid of insects. This includes fruit flies, any piece of string or fluff on the carpet, any other insects she can't identify and calls "dragonfly." We have been encouraging her to 'just say shoo bug,' but I'm not sure this will work so well with more than one mosquito wanting to spear her skin and suck blood out of her. Thank God she doesn't know that this is exactly what some insects do to soft-skins like us.

We went to Sibbald Point two years ago and got rained out on the first day there. Marsh (my wife) and my son (who was 4 at the time) left while I stayed behind to enjoy the experience. Since then, we have not gone camping and I'm hoping this experience will be better for both the kids and Marsh.

We will be camping in the woods, near our car and running water and showers. The beach will be our daily destination, with a little fishing and maybe hiking. We have a kitchen tent as well as a good 6 "man" tent.

Photo Source: Cyclingelf