Finally, a warm camping trip! Although… it was a little TOO warm Thursday afternoon but hey, no thermal underwear, gloves or hats for sitting outside at night around the fire.
Lula, surveying our view from campsite #1 (Wed night – Thursday morning).
Nice view! Pretty little reservoir that only allows wakeless boating. Makes for a much quieter place than nearby Carter Lake.
Our first campsite had some levelling challenges and had no shade come morning. Luckily we knew the campsite just up from us would be vacated Thursday morning and had good morning shade and was a little more private… so Thursday morning we left this site and moved up one.
Shhhhhh…..
The sun sets on our first camp site.
After we moved, we went on a nice walk in the adjacent Shockey Open Space. Lots of wildflowers.
Lula got a little hot in the 2 mile trek through the Ponderosa forest with inconsistent shade along the trail. Luckily, we came back down to the reservoir where she could cool off.
We continued on the 2 mile trail that goes around the reservoir.
Our new campsite had the perfect trees to tie our hammock to.
Ahhhhhhh.
Sunrise walk before we packed up and headed home. This time we just took the reservoir trail.
There is a nesting pair of osprey here! We were lucky enough to see one of them fishing Thursday night and Friday morning. Thursday night we could see one of the camp hosts out in the reservoir on her kayak and the osprey snatched a fish right in front of her. I wonder if that’s one of the perks listed in the job posting.
