We knew the campground has a quiet hour starting at 11pm. We didn’t make any noise as we stayed late by the fire – no singing, no loud laughing, simply quiet talking. We had 4 kids sleeping in tents just beside us. At 11:30pm young gentleman came to us and said that he doesn’t mind us sitting by the fire as long as we are quiet. So we were.

At 1am an older man came with a very upset face telling us that it’s very rude to stay up so late and that we have to go to bed IMMEDIATELY. We suddenly felt like little kids reprimanded by the principal. But well, off we went. Next day we spent half a day at our campsite before we left to Tobermory for few hours. In the afternoon we got back, made dinner, went with kids at 7:30pm on the wagon ride and all this time nobody approached us from the camp people. Suddenly at 9:30pm a young girl came and asked for a deposit that we didn’t pay the day before – the day we came to the campground. We came by 3 vehicles, at 3 different times and on none of the occasions nobody told us about any kind of deposits. We inquired our neighbors on the campsites next to ours and learned that none of them was asked to pay anything like this. Finally the girl told us that deposit is to be a penalty for violating the quiet hour, in amount of $250 per site (we occupied 2 sites). Total of $500. Please note we were at the campground where we paid $80 for 2 nights, and now they are talking about $500!!! It seemed to be extreme and we refused to pay, especially that was already late and we were planning to leave next morning anyway. Half an hour later few stuff people came with a recording video camera and gave as a notice of eviction. It was already dark; our kids were sound asleep in our tents and it was past 10pm. They said that if we leave in 30 minutes they will refund us for the second night we already paid for. 30 minutes! We had 3 tents, lots of meal accessories on the tables, sleeping small kids (2, 3 and 5years olds) and it was pitch dark! And they had the whole day to evict us, but they were waiting till night to tell us about it! That was outrageous!

It very much resembled the World War 2 movies with Germans evicting villages at night. The resemblance was magnified by the conversation that took place right above my head. One of the gentleman asked the other in German: Jews? The other replied also in German: Poles. The first one commented: that’s the same thing. The conversation was very short, everything was said within two steps of my chair and none of the talking persons did any effort to hide it. We called police, so did they. Police woman came an hour later, and said that she is very sorry, but yes, we have to leave the place now. In the middle of the night! All motels close by were full. Which was no surprise to the campsite personnel. We had to drive all the way home! And as much as I can understand that they have rules people have to follow, I cannot understand why they were waiting till late night, knowing - oh so well - that we have small kids to tell us we have to leave. Never in my life I met such a heartless people!