Monday afternoon Tim decided we should go for a quick camping trip. He didn’t have to ask us twice. Three hours later we were on our way. We hadn’t been able to go camping since Tim started school so we were very excited to get up to our special spot.
With views like this who can resist camping here?
We arrived Monday night with just enough time to check out our camp site and then get everything ready for the night. Our idea of a quick camping trip is to skip the tent and lay all the seats in our van down and crash in the back. This cuts hours of set up and prep time down to maybe 30 minutes.
Tuesday we woke up very early….thank you boys…..built up our fire and enjoyed our traditional quick camping breakfast. Fresh fruit, yogurt, bacon cooked over the fire, donuts and chocolate milk. (Usually hot cocoa, but in our excitement we forgot our cooking ware) Tim and I enjoyed the fire while the boys ran around exploring the area around out campsite. We didn’t get much time to enjoy the fire as the boys were anxious to get the inner tubes in the water.
Johnston and Jameson checking things out.
Johnston getting his tube ready.
The water was freezing! (It wasn’t even 10am! Craziness!)
We couldn’t keep Coalette out of the water. She was in doggie heaven!
Jameson did so well sitting on the side of the tube without falling off.
These guys are such awesome kids!
Johnston enjoyed the challenge of rock climbing up and down the creek bed.
This is the creek bed right beside our campsite. Johnston and Tim climbed up to the first waterfall and then came back a "safer" way for the rest of us to climb up.
Coalette swimming in the pool beside our campsite.
Thumbaleena had a blast camping with us for the first time. She wasn’t the best at swimming, but she climbed the rocks and hills like a mountain goat.
I ran out of battery power right before we hiked up to the set of falls that are beside our campsite. It was beautiful up there. The first falls we came to had a pool about 40 feet by 10 feet. The water was about 4′ at the deepest part. We had to slide down a rock face to the pool and crawl up carefully to get out.
The second part of the climb meant crossing the creek above the first falls, scaling a rock face with a rope and other adventurous things. This was definitely something Jameson and I did not want to tackle so we stayed behind to play in the pool while our guys braved on. Tim told me later that Johnston did great going up the rock face, but coming down was a little tricky. I’m so proud of him for doing it though. I look forward to the day that Jameson and I will be able to tackle the next stage of the creek hike.
We hiked, tubed, explored, and completely wore ourselves out. We would love to get one more overnight trip in, but if we don’t we are so thankful to have gotten one fun filled, adventure packed camping trip in this summer.
With views like this who can resist camping here?
We arrived Monday night with just enough time to check out our camp site and then get everything ready for the night. Our idea of a quick camping trip is to skip the tent and lay all the seats in our van down and crash in the back. This cuts hours of set up and prep time down to maybe 30 minutes.
Tuesday we woke up very early….thank you boys…..built up our fire and enjoyed our traditional quick camping breakfast. Fresh fruit, yogurt, bacon cooked over the fire, donuts and chocolate milk. (Usually hot cocoa, but in our excitement we forgot our cooking ware) Tim and I enjoyed the fire while the boys ran around exploring the area around out campsite. We didn’t get much time to enjoy the fire as the boys were anxious to get the inner tubes in the water.
Johnston and Jameson checking things out.
Johnston getting his tube ready.
The water was freezing! (It wasn’t even 10am! Craziness!)
We couldn’t keep Coalette out of the water. She was in doggie heaven!
Jameson did so well sitting on the side of the tube without falling off.
These guys are such awesome kids!
Johnston enjoyed the challenge of rock climbing up and down the creek bed.
This is the creek bed right beside our campsite. Johnston and Tim climbed up to the first waterfall and then came back a "safer" way for the rest of us to climb up.
Coalette swimming in the pool beside our campsite.
Thumbaleena had a blast camping with us for the first time. She wasn’t the best at swimming, but she climbed the rocks and hills like a mountain goat.
I ran out of battery power right before we hiked up to the set of falls that are beside our campsite. It was beautiful up there. The first falls we came to had a pool about 40 feet by 10 feet. The water was about 4′ at the deepest part. We had to slide down a rock face to the pool and crawl up carefully to get out.
The second part of the climb meant crossing the creek above the first falls, scaling a rock face with a rope and other adventurous things. This was definitely something Jameson and I did not want to tackle so we stayed behind to play in the pool while our guys braved on. Tim told me later that Johnston did great going up the rock face, but coming down was a little tricky. I’m so proud of him for doing it though. I look forward to the day that Jameson and I will be able to tackle the next stage of the creek hike.
We hiked, tubed, explored, and completely wore ourselves out. We would love to get one more overnight trip in, but if we don’t we are so thankful to have gotten one fun filled, adventure packed camping trip in this summer.
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