Before leaving Breezy Hill campground we emptied and filled tanks and then drove into some stormy weather with a brief but very strong downpour.

Our routing took us through Bancroft where the annual Gemboree was taking place.  This is a rockhound and semi precious stone collector’s haven and occupies both the arena and community center. Here you’ll find beads, minerals, meteorites as well as all sorts of new age healing crystals. One stand offered a stone from Russia that claims to be “composed of nearly all the elements of the Periodic Table”.  Another stand offered one with only 7 elements but still claimed to be able to cure pretty much anything that might ail you.

After a quick lunch we drove to the annual get-together of some of our friends at a cottage in Haliburton. About 40 people, mostly kids of our friends now, were celebrating the August long weekend by swimming, water skiing, canoeing, sailing, jumping off cliffs into the water and talking to good friends.