Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Camping at Loab State Park


Josh had a couple of days off so we all headed over to the
coast and stayed at Loab State Park. We were lucky to
get a campsite looking right over the Chetco River.
We had our own private trail down to the river below.








Catching Salamanders in the river.








This little guy would come over and try to pick up crumbs.
Winston (the dog)was tied to the picnic table and stayed as still
as a statue while the squirrel inched closer. He waited patiently
and then charged! The squirrel would run with his stolen goods
and just out of reach of the rope would sit
down on his haunches and mockingly eat his food then would
sneak back over and do it again.

One morning there were about six elk that crossed the river
not too far from our camp. It was so cool!

This one decided to take up permanent residence.






Playing water football

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Lone Ranch and Wales Head Beach

While camping we went over to the
beach when it was low tide and
let the kids find treasures in the tidal pools.
I know we go to the same spot
every time but the kids love it.
When we came
over it was forecasted to rain
and we were not too thrilled about the
idea of soggy
tents but we came over anyways.
After all we are Oregonians right?

Well, Luck was smiling down on us and it didn't rain a bit.

Watch out he's a little feisty !







(I was experimenting on the contrast and pigment on
some of the pictures and this is one I was playing
with just to get a different effect.)
When the tide came back in we rode on some of the waves!


Woosh!

Looking for crabs in the seaweed.









oops wave came rolling in

Good save Mom I'm all right






Hang 10