Have Camera, Will Walk

Tuesday, October 17…

Ice Guardian 
(at camp host site)

Lazy day. Greg went into town for a haircut and reappeared 2+ hours later. I walked all the campground loops, but still had barely 2 miles on the FitBit. In the afternoon Greg suggested a trail that follows about half of the lake shore. An hour later I’d added 3 miles to my FitBit and taken tons of pictures.

Regarding the camp map below... We're parked directly right of the F in Fool (lake name), and I started my long walk in the same area, heading south from the boat launch along the pale gray line. (My turnaround point was the playground on the west side. Not another soul on the path. (The gorge area runs E/W across the top.)

Sky & Pines

Silhouette 1

These ducks are not so happy to see me. 

Anyone seen Moses?

How polite... He left the bench for me.

Once I turn back, sunset has begun in earnest. I want to take gazillions of artsy photos, but... 1) I spend too much time framing each shot (hoping for perfection - ha!), 2) the sun sets fairly quickly, and 3) I probably don't have enough "film" left. (I don't manage storage well.) Anyway, I take what I can and later will crop or delete what doesn't work.

Silhouette 2

Day is done, safely rest - all is well.

BlogThoughts... The kayaks add a nice bit of color to the photo above, but we arrived one day too late to actually enjoy them out on the lake. Sometimes I'm sad, even feeling a bit guilty, because we haven't done any water activities this whole trip. I would have loved a whitewater rafting trip, but either the weather or timing always seemed off. (And I know that's a pathetic excuse - we could have done a trip. It just wasn't a high enough priority.) But there is life after this trip - we'll get that rafting in sometime!

Balloons for today...