Camp Day #3

The location for the third camp day we attended was Rock Bridge Memorial State Park.  We have been to the Devil's Ice Box trail, Gans Creek, and a few other trails in that are of the park, but I did not realize that the park was larger than that.  The park does not have individual camp sites, however, I have now learned, that they do have a special use area for group camping.  It is a really great area!  Two firepits, several picnic tables, a great open area, and surrounding woods.  There is even a trail that leads from the special use area to the Shooting Star trail, where we took a very nice nature hike.  The trail leads past bluffs over Gans Creek and to a shelter cave.  The cave required a bit of climbing, and Madeline was the only one of my three who was excited about climbing up to it.  She went up with a couple of her friends and one of the other mothers.  The other two found a frog in the creek and spent some time observing him.  I was actually surprised to see the frog since it was kind of chilly.  He was not moving very quickly, which facilitated the girls being able to catch his several times.

We tried something new for lunch as well.  I made some honey wheat bread to take with us, and we made grilled cheese sandwiches in our cast iron pan over the fire.  The first one was a bit over done, but after that we got the hang of it, and the rest were quite tasty!

This is the frog that the girls caught.  Actually, after they caught it, I looked in the water and saw a couple others. 

Madeline climbing up to the shelter cave.  She found several fossils inside.  I am actually looking forward to taking another hike on this trail in the near future so that I can climb up there with her and check it out!