We were lucky. The campground is set up so that one half of it, the wooded area, is able to be reserved. This is nice if you are coming from far away and want to ensure that you have a place to stay for several days. The other part of the campground is non-reservable and is first come/first served. Luckily, we found the very last site in the wooded area and were able to lock it in for one night. We quickly set up our camp and enjoyed some lunch.
Jack airing out his feet after our hike.
After munching, we decided to head to the visitor's center and orient ourselves. We had heard about the canyons here and were excited to see them. Jack was anxious to see a canyon and maybe a waterfall for the first time that he remembered.
This is the first canyon we hiked. It is called French Canyon.
French Canyon had lots of water in it, but none coming down the falls area. We found a little pool at the bottom of the falls that had some fairly large, young fish in it. Not sure how they've survived or how they will as the summer lingers. There was a nice person at the canyon who took our photo for us.
Jack scrambled up into one of the many caves in St. Louis Canyon.
This is St. Louis Canyon. It is the only one in the park that still has water coming down from it at this point in the summer.
We had a good day yesterday. We relaxed and I learned how to play the card game called: Magic The Gathering. My son is really into it and he was very excited to share it with me. It's a lot like what I remember of Dungeon's and Dragons. I wasn't a big player, but I got the concept. He and his buddies are huge players in it. It was fun to be able to share that with him.
We wished we had brought our shelter with us at about 7 a.m. this morning. We heard a thunderstorm roll into the park. It sounded worse than it really was due to the trees and all the leaves that held and dropped the rain. It was enough that everything we had left out was quite wet, but that's when we were very happy to have been in the teardrop. We were warm and dry inside.
However, everything was slippery and wet in the park, so we opted to head home and unpack. It was a short trip, but a really nice one.
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