Thursday 12 May 2022
Sunlight (and my phone alarm) got me up by seven-fifteen in the morning. We must have been considerably farther east for sunrise to be so much earlier than home. Breakfast was over by nine-ish, and it was off to see the park attractions.
We pretty much hit them all. The only thing that would have been extra special would been Cedar Falls from the bottom, but that was a two mile walk. And the map is not clear if that's one-way or round-trip, either.
So we drove out and did three little quarter mile hikes, plus stopped at all the overlooks on the way. We saw:
Turtle Rocks
Rock House Cave--It's not a real underground cave, but a place where the rocks are eroded making an enormous shelter. (Which was full of schoolchildren for the five minutes we spent there. Empty, it would have been pretty cool to explore)
Richter memorial overlook
CCC Overlook
Cedar Falls overlook
Bear Cave area which was cool to the max. Huge boulders all over the place, with natural opening between and amid them. Loved it
As to birds, I kept seening Summer Tanagers but could never get one to sit still long enough for a picture. I saw a wren hopping around, again no pictuers. Robins galore; blue-jays, chipping sparrows, pine warblers, wood thrush (heard it only) although I saw a thrush that ocould have been an immature robin. He posed for me but I was too slow on the shutter. And white-breasted nuthatch.
We went for a walk in the evening...and Molly went for a swim. She stepped in, then realized it was over her head and the rocks were slippery. I let her swim for a minute, then hoisted her out by the handle on her harness.
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