Scary campground encounter
This happened last night, and I’m still feeling sick over it.
My boyfriend and I have been on a road trip through Nova Scotia, and we were spending our final night of the trip at a walk-in site at a provincial park. It wasn’t a super private site and our tent was in clear view to anyone walking by, but it was in a secluded enough area of the campground that we opted to sleep with the fly off.
At around 4:00 AM, I woke up to what sounded like footsteps outside the tent. I was only half awake at this point and thought for sure I had imagined it. A couple minutes later, I woke again when my boyfriend reached out and grabbed my arm. Turns out, he had heard the footsteps too and thought it was me outside. We looked up and sure enough, a man was staring directly into our tent at us. We reacted immediately, loudly asking what the fuck he was doing, and he just walked away.
Obviously neither of us slept the rest of the night. I didn’t think to check my tent zipper until we were actually getting out of bed a couple hours later, and the door on my side of the tent was completely unzipped along the bottom. We notified the campground staff first thing in the morning, but beyond that, I don’t think there’s anything we can do/could have done in the moment to remedy the situation. If anyone has any input on whether we should have done anything differently, I’m all ears.
Not a fun way to spend our last night of vacation. We couldn’t get out of there fast enough this morning and are very glad to be headed back home. Moving forward, I will be locking my zippers with a carabiner and probably won’t be sleeping with the fly off anytime soon. Stay safe out there!!!!!