Naevehjem Water Festival
August 10-12, 2007
Watch this space for more information
It will be hot, bring your water gear,
water weapons and other heat defenses
Bring bug spray for the evening bugs
Location
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
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.
