Naevehjem Water Festival

August 10-12, 2007

 

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It will be hot, bring your water gear, water weapons and other heat defenses

Bring bug spray for the evening bugs

 

 

Location

Lake Diaz, 3 Miles south of Lone Pine.

 

Directions:

From the south: Highway 395 north to Lake Diaz, turn right to enter the park, loop all the way around the lake, clock-wise.

From the north: Highway 395 south, to Lake Diaz, turn left to enter the park, loop all the way around the lake, clock-wise.

Southern California Map  Lake Diaz site map

 

 

Silent Auction

People donate treasures to be auctioned, which are displayed with attached bid sheets. When you find something you can’t live without you write your name and bid on the sheet and lurk about anxiously. If someone outbids you – rush over and make the winning bid, repeat lurk. Objects with no written bids go to a “loud” auction where you outshout and outbid your competition to win the auction. So… everyone please bring exciting, semi-medieval things; arts & crafts, clothing, furniture, weapons, armor, jewelry, books, but not items that can be harmed by heat. Bid high and bid often, it’s a Baronial fundraiser.

 

Water jousting

Pretty much what it sounds like. Two people in a canoe, one armed with a long padded “lance”, the other with a propulsion paddle. The goal is to tip over the opponents canoe. Everybody wears a helmet, most people remain seated lest they tip their own boat over and save their opponents the trouble. It takes several passes and a lot of thrashing around and at least half the participants end up in the drink. Great fun on a summer afternoon.

 

Pit Battle

Hard to describe and harder to imagine in the competitive SCA. Fighters are bought at the helmet auction. Bets are placed, chips only, with the house setting the odds. Fights are arranged. And by that - I mean arranged. Anyone can place a bet and the owners can secretly instruct their fighters to win or lose. You need to see two competent fighters both try to throw the fight. Unusual. Pitiful. And a blast. Ask Ishmael of the Well for tips on underhanded skullduggery. The winner gets a pile of chips, to be returned to the house at the end of the night in exchange for bragging rights and a prize.

 

The site

We have reserved for us the entire northwest camping corner near the lake. There is a beach, flanked by water weeds, with shallow water with a smooth sandy bottom. Bring your water shoes. Ashore, the ground is hard, flat and level with a few trees in the area. The Baronial pavilion is set up near the beach for your viewing convenience of the water jousting and the warrior games. A nice place to play.

Town raids can be made in Lone Pine a few miles north of the site.