We took a weekend off from everything in September so we could go camping, hiking, and canoeing!!
Wild River State Park
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| Alfie standing on the sand island where we had lunch |
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| Maria building an inukshuk on the sand island |
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| The view from the canoe |
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| Coming out into the prairie from the wooded part of a hiking trail |
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| White chocolate s'more! |
Nerstrand Big Woods State Park
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| Alfie and the funny tree |
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| The fall colors were starting, so we got some yellow glow |
Frontinac State Park
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| We watched the raptors soaring from one of the overlooks on the bluff |
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| More fall colors |
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| The trail along the river bluff |
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| We found an awesome millipede and spent some time playing with it... |
Caterpillars!
We saw five kinds of caterpillars over the course of the weekend.
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| The classic Wooly Bear! |
We also saw a white one with black spikes, but we didn't have the camera along for that one. We hiked over 8 miles on one of the days - we haven't figured out the other days yet. It was a good weekend. All three of these were State Parks we had not visited yet. New territory! And we found a good caterpillar guide book that will probably be part of a future Amazon purchase...
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Funny, Renee has a picture of her and her brother in that same tree in Big Woods from nearly 20 years ago!
Then 8 years ago after hiking the trails with her parents I kinda hinted that Renee and I should get married. I think she said something to the effect that if that was a proposal I'd better do a better job than that! Ah Big Woods.
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