A look at the Oceanside RV Resort, and Sidney By the Sea
We didn’t get much touristing done on Day 11. We did have a good look at Sidney while working to get our final plumbing problem in the RV repaired.
Oceanside RV Resort gets top marks except in the wifi department. Our site, #16, is quite close to one of the routers and we still can’t get a reliable signal. The clerk said when we checked in that new router towers are being installed this year. When I need wifi – generally that means to post the blog – I go to the cookhouse, which is very nice.
As well as having a kitchen, the cookhouse has exercise equipment, and the laundry and bathrooms are here.
I don’t know how old the park is, but everything looks fairly new, and is very well maintained.
Showers are $1 for 5 minutes.
The children’s playground, seen from the cookhouse. We saw very few kids, but that might change when school is out.
A general look at the lower part of the park. This is the section closest to the beach, which isn’t very good in any recreation way.
Our campsite, #16, and the empty #17. The full-service sites are large for a commercial park, almost level, and many are pull-through.
I had started the day off by calling 3 nearby plumbers to get the work on the rig done, but none returned my call. I decided to go into Sidney to talk to the folks at Home Hardware. I’d never seen this type of heat-shrink plumbing and had no idea how to work on it. We started off, though, by taking a long walk through town and along the waterfront.
We had heard that there are a lot of sculptures around town, and this was the first one we came to. I consider resist joining the old man and his doggie 🙂
Beacon Park is the heart of the waterfront, and is clearly a very popular spot for locals and visitors. Another dog sculpture – I like Sidney! 🙂
The waterfront walk is wonderful, with grass, flowers, sandy and rocky beaches, and a spectacular view out into the Gulf Islands and the American San Juan Islands
Around the corner to the south from Beacon Park, houses move closer to the shore. We had by now seen enough of Sidney to put it on the extremely short list of places we could live some day when we’ve had enough of winters.
Up to the north on the waterfront walk is the marina, where some kayak training was going on.
Two trips to Home Hardware, talking to 4 very helpful employees there, and $68 for a tool and supplies later, the rig is leak-free and fully functional again. If I left Whitehorse later, once it was warm enough that I could use water in the rig and work on the plumbing, this all would have been so much easier.
Island View Beach Park was once again the perfect place to end the day. Three herons were fishing quite successfully.
We had so many things to do and places to see that were just not going to get done or seen. The next day was a “must-do” drive out to Port Renfrew and hopefully a big-trees circle trip.
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