December 2010, and our very first backpacking trip. Five-minute read, 21 pictures
Year: 2010
Our First Wilderness Hike. If we were going to give backpacking a go we thought it might be an idea to visit a wilderness first and discover what we were letting ourselves in for. Three-minute read, 12 pictures
Camped at Berry Bend – Truman Lake. 5 pictures
Berry Bend Campfire – We cheated on the fire. We didn’t want to spend a lot of time and energy gathering and cutting wood, so we bought some logs for $4 and I split them.
Camping at Berry Bend – This weekend we tried out our backpacking gear. Two-minute read. 3 pictures
Getzger Cat realizes that the pictures of him sitting on the bed yesterday might end up on Facebook.
“Oh Getzger!” That’s a fairly frequent exclamation here.
Kayaking and Fishing on Stockton Lake. One-minute read, 4 pictures
Pre-Dawn at Table Rock Lake. We were up late watching the Perseids meteor shower, which we did by laying in the warm waters of Table Rock Lake. 2 pictures
Still Waters – Waiting for the dawn on Table Rock Lake.
Red Bluff on Huzzah Creek, Davisville, Missouri – With Mick heading back to the UK, we had a couple of days leisure time before we had to collect the girls at St Louis.
A fairly scrawny looking deer, but it didn’t appear to be at all put-out by us watching it for a while.