Skipsea Bank Holiday Camping

I took the afternoon off work so we could get to the camp site early, but typically I got dragged into meetings and didn't leave work while 2:30pm. We jumped in the can and set off across West Yorkshire, just beating the rush hour traffic on the M62. Within a couple of hours we were at Skipsea Sands Camp site. We were meeting up with several friends and everyone had already arrived. Thankfully we were all pitches together, we got the kids bikes off the van and had a beer or two!

BBQ in the evening

 It was great to relax amongst friends and we had a cracking evening sat outside chatting and joking, good fun. The kids were happy playing together and looked after each other the whole weekend.

The weather was kind to us and we spent the whole weekend outside. The barbecue was heavily used, bacon sandwiches in the morning and burgers and sausages in the evening. 

On Saturday we went down onto the beach and I was amazed at the erosion, mud cliffs as far as the eye can see in both directions falling into the sea. The kids went for a paddle and quickly got wet through, Andrea conned me into having a 'paddle' I stripped off to my underpants and charged into the sea, Andrew one of my mates did the same and we spent 20 minutes swimming around, it wasn't freezing and as long as you stayed in the water it was bearable. Andrea and the other girls nicked our clothes and tool them back to the camp site. We had to walk back onto the site wearing only wet underwear, lots of pointing and laughing!

In the evening the kids hit the arcade, Finlay was determined to will a crab toy on the 2p shove. He sat all night loading 2p's into the machine and won the damn crab which cost a fortune!

Paul with his big fish!

Paul is a keen angler and bought a weekend license for the lake on the camp site. Finlay had been sat with Paul and had been eating maggots, his attitude was that if the fish thought they were okay it was worth try it out. All the girls thought this discussing, but all the blokes laughed at it, considering Finlay doesn't like veg and struggles to eat his tea to eat maggots was pretty good!  We were all sat talking when the kids came running over excitedly, Paul had a big fish on the line and we should come quickly! After a bit of fight Paul landed a nice sized carp, everyone was crowding around looking at quite a big fish, amazing!

We had another barbecue in the evening, it was a testosterone team effort to do the cooking. The girls sat back drinking wine while the blokes took it in turns to flip the burgers!

After dark we lit a small fire in an old barbecue, the kids used this to toast marshmallows.

On our last day we headed for a nearby car boot sale and market at Skirlington. Finlay was on the lookout for a small penknife, he soon found a suitcase and routed out an old knife, a bargain at £1.

Finlay spent the rest of the holiday whittling branches. He was only allowed to play with the knife while under strict supervision!

All too soon it was time to go home, Steve and his kids decided to stay on for a few days but everyone else was busy packing up. It was a quite run home, another great weekend, to say that there was 8 kids and 8 adults we'd all got on great.