A first for us, a weekend on a Bank Holiday and also the start of the half term school holidays, what went wrong? Well Cath’s work went wrong and due to other staff’s holidays we had to move our weekend to this one, horror! The only safe bet was an adult only site, not too big, ideally CL size. My attention was thus drawn to a brand new campsite, only opened 1 month ago, namely The Oaks Lakes Caravan Park in Sessay, North Yorkshire.
Adult only, no dogs, this sounds like a good bet for this weekend. And in the end it proved a successful choice, as we were one of only 4 caravans on the site, along with one tent in the – tent field! The site is a new development on an existing site for fishing, with around 10 fishing lakes. Very popular with the fisherman, competitions and fun fishing to be had in abundance, although not for us! The site is easily accessed via a bone shaking track leading from the main road which leads past the fishing lakes and up to the site itself. A free opening barrier separates the site from the lakes whereupon you are presented with around 12 pitches to chose from. Although the last three at the bottom of the site had no EHU connection which we didn’t know, so oblivious to this duly headed there and pitched up. As the nearest EHU point was a couple of pitches away, I had to deploy the extension cable to reach it, a first in our outings! I thought I might need it in France, but not in the UK!
Weather was very variable, showers, sunshine, cloud, rain – and the cycle continued. We therefore didn’t get much ‘outside’ time and resorted to relaxing for the weekend. TV reception was fine, fresh water was provided by one lonely tap at the top of the site by the gated entrance, from here also ran the path to the toilets and CDP/Grey water disposal point. Now this is something to be addressed. The CDP point is fine, very well done – but here you are also to empty your grey water? A two foot lift from the floor, balancing on a breeze block with your 40l wastemater? Not an easy task even for the fittest of us! I had to let a little water go in the grass by the side before doing the final almighty lift! Something the site needs to address, not adequate by any means! Toilets were nice, no showers though. Although they were free entry so were used by the fishermen (fisherwomen?) of the lakes, so not exclusively for the use of the caravan site. With the land area available for the caravan site, a dedicated toilet block would be a better solution.
We had another great relaxing weekend and awoke on the Monday to a very sunny Bank Holiday Monday. This made for a nice relaxing pack-up with the ‘van nice and clean, following its clean on Sunday. Back to storage, not too busy (just yet!), we put her safely back in her spot and then thoughts and conversations turned to France! Woohoo!
- Date: 24th May 2014
- Nights: 2
- Pitch #: 54.179428, -1.306474
- GPS: 54.179404, -1.306347
