North South Lake - Try Again Without The Fog

Ahhh, our favorite campsite.  Oh no!  An army of children parked outside our campsite!!!

 For Saturday, we chose to go fishing.  The weather was perfect. 

Advice to first timers: they are serious about

checking fishing licenses and life jackets.

  

Slippery!!

 

Time to dry some wood for cobbler later!

On Sunday, we went for an impromptu hike.  The pictures here show the lookout, which was the final point of the hike.  See the other post (July 1) about the Otis Railway for the rail area photos along the way.

These photos are from the lookout at the end of the trail.  Rt. 23 is below in some of the photos.

Ron braved a snake to bring us these shots.  I refused to go that close to the edge, 

and was eating blueberries while he was risking life & limb.

Little Pond ~ Big Pond

Wow are we off to a late start with camping this year!  Between family events and really awful (WET) weather, it took a while to finally get out to camp.  First stop:  Little Pond.

Ron was able to leave work a tiny bit early and we got a great start setting up.  We were quickly visited by a camp ranger, warning us about some very aggressive bears in the area.  She reviewed the rules and assured us that they would patrol for our safety.  Well, that's a good way to start!  Two weeks later, we found out that the rangers had to "destroy" the bear because of it's threat to people.  Guess they were not kidding.

Speaking of wildlife, last year Amy swore on her life that she saw a mountain lion near the Pepacton Reservoir as we drove to Margaretville.   We asked the rangers about mountain lion sightings.  The "official word" is "bite your tongue."

Trying out the new EZ Up.  Chance of rain 40%. 

I think this is a good luck canopy, with no rain for the weekend!

Day 2:  Fishing at Big Pond.  We did not catch ANYTHING, other than these pictures of nature:

Beaver Lodge

 

I seriously took about 10 pictures to try to capture a school of fish jumping.  

This was the only one that worked! 

 Camping season is official with the first peach cobbler of the year!

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