St Malo Provincial Park
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©Ashauntae(2020) St Malo Beach
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Having just acquired our first motorhome, it was time to start planning trips to campgrounds. We would start in Manitoba and work our way across Canada and eventually to the United States. To our surprise available campgrounds were in short supply. It seems like due to COVID-19 and stay at home orders, campgrounds had become a high demand commodity.
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©Ashauntae(2020) Tiffen Allegro Motorhome
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With perservance we managed to find three nights in the St Malo Provincial park in mid July. The highlight of St Malo is it's family friendly twin beaches. One of the beaches called sunset beach is the ideal location to watch the sunset. St Malo beach is also great for swimming in this motor-free waters here which also makes it a great location for canoeing, kayaking and sailboarding.
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©Ashauntae(2020) Sunset Beach St Malo
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©Ashauntae(2020) Sunset at St Malo |
Other attractions included a mini golf, several hiking trails with easy access to the beach, an ampitheatre and just outside the campground is the Grotto at St Malo which hosts an annual pilgrimage in August. We had hoped to do some fishing but didn't find many adequate fishing spots. While there were several access points for sifhing the water was covered with weeds. We did do some fishing but no luck.
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©Ashauntae(2020) Grotto at St Malo |
The RV spot we had was adequate but with a full campground, privacy and quiet times were at a premium. The days we were there seems like there was some type of celebration involving several families of a religious group who occupied several camping spots near ours. The last night we were there must have been the finale of the celebrations as it got extremely noisy and carried on late into the night.
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©Ashauntae(2020) Concession stand at St Malo Provincial Park |
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©Ashauntae(2020) Mini Golf at St Malo |
Our first RV trip went well except that on day 2 we ran out of water when we thought we had a full tank. We didn't have water hook-up, just electric and made the big mistake of traveling without a water hose of containers for collecting water. Luckily we were referred to the campground host who came with a hose and helped us conntect to water and we were good to good. Very grateful to the campground host who helped us.
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©Ashauntae(2020) St Malo Beach |
St Malo Provincial park, is about 40 minutes drive from Winnipeg. It is ideal for families with a well stocked consession stand in the form of a train carriage. Beaches are clean and spacious, sunsets are gorgeous and hiking trails are easily accessible and not too challenging.
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©Ashauntae(2020) Eastern Kingbird in St Malo Provincial Park |
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