The Best Camping Weekends Are Seadoo Weekends
Almost every weekend during the months of July and August I spend the weekend camping, fishing and riding my Seadoo PWC. In my opinion, it’s a pretty perfect weekend getaway. I have managed to convince a few of my friends to spend most of their weekends this way as well. I have been spending my summers this way for the past 3 years. As each year passes another friend buys a Seadoo and gets to experience this joyous way of life.
The weekend begins immediately after work on Friday nights. The lake we’ve chosen this year is less than a two hour drive away, which is a perfect amount of time to unwind from work, listen to a couple of pod casts and some new itunes on my ipod, and just enjoy the drive. I generally have time when I arrive to unpack, setup, get the seadoo out on the lake, and enjoy a quick trip to say hi to some other campers I know that are just arriving for the weekend as well. Getting back before dark means we can get supper started and end up eating our burgers by the light of the campfire.
Bright and early Saturday morning is my favorite part of the whole weekend. I make a quick pot of coffee, have a little snack, and grab my travel mug and fire up the seadoo. My favorite alteration to my seadoo has to be the bolt on coffee holder that I use for my super slow, check out the lake rides on Saturday morning. I get to see what’s been going on during the weekdays I’m not here, and sometimes if I get out early enough I turn off the engine and just float for a while enjoying the morning quiet out on the middle of the lake. After an hour or so I head back, and help make a huge camping breakfast, and really start the whole camping weekend.
My seadoo ride on Saturday afternoon is definitely a different pace than my early morning trawl. I meet up with all my seadoo buddies and we head out for a combination of touring, visiting other campsites, and we inevitably take part in some watercraft games and races. Wave jumping another seadoo wake has to be my personal favorite. Although seadooing in a group is tons of fun, I don’t want to fail to mention how important it is to keep your eyes open and follow some basic common sense and safety rules so your weekend isn’t ruined with an unnecessary accident.
The end of the weekend inevitably arrives way too soon. Before I know where the time has gone it seems that it’s Sunday afternoon and the sun is on it’s way down. Some thinking ahead means that the seadoos have had enough time to dry out since the late morning spin around the lake, so we don’t have to put the seadoo covers back on wet pwcs. All there is left to do is to pack up the gear, hook up the pwc trailer, and head back to the city, before we get to do it all over again next weekend.