Southwick Beach State Park (Fall visit)

Our RV on beach site #10 of Southwick Beach State Park

Looking South on Southwick Beach

Looking North up Southwick Beach

Mike relaxing on Southwick Beach

Southwick Beach - Horses and riders

Southwick Beach - log looking like an alligator

Southwick Beach - log looking like an alligator

We left Rochester around 4PM to head for Southwick Beach State Park on Monday Sept. 12, 2011. We left so late because our RV house battery died and we had to recharge it before we left. We really needed the house battery because we dry camp at Southwick (that means no elect., water or sewer hook-ups, use batteries the whole time). We got to campsite #10 around 6PM and set up. We sat and watched the sun set, so pretty, then went out to dinner. The people from Herkimer, Claude & Janet, were here again. The other couple, Bob and Diane from Endicott, were here also. Because our battery had to be recharged at home, our fridge didn't get cold enough till Tues. morning. We had our food in a cooler until Tues. morning. We went for a walk on the beach and this time of year the beach is nice and wide. In June it was real narrow, all due to the level of the lake. Every morning we rode our bikes and if a nice day we spent time at the beach. We also had a fire every night if no rain. We did collect drift wood for our fire so we did not have to buy any firewood this trip. On Friday Sue Miller's brother, Doug came up to visit us. We had a nice walk on the beach with his dog, Scout, then he left to go visit his Uncle but came back to go to dinner with us at the Sandy Pond Steak House. On Sat. Mike had to go to Keuka College for a faculty meeting, so he was up and gone by 5:00AM. We spent the afternoon on the beach, me dressed and in a fleece and Mike in his bathing suit. He did not go in the water today but the other days he did. While we were at the beach, we saw 3 horses and their riders come over the dune walk and headed away from us. We had cocktails with our neighbors, Janet and Claude. We exchanged cell # and e-mail addresses because we wanted to visit them when we went south for the 3 months during winter, they would be in SC. Monday, 9/19/11, we got up had breakfast and started putting things away and we left our campsite around 11AM heading home. We will be back in June 2012.