The road into the campground is dirt/gravel and becomes washboarded over time. They are definitely due to get the grader out there again soon! Probably the second worse I have seen the road and the worst in over 10 years there. It took me almost 45 min to crawl the 4-5 miles from the entrance to the Ranger station.
You can see it in this photo and here it isn't even that bad (took this pic during my Sat hike). If I had any loose fillings they would have come out. My 50 year old vehicle was shaking really bad and since I broke a ball joint on this very road a few years ago, I was crawling at idle speed.
As you saw in the last post, I got settled on the campsite before 4PM. There have been a couple of changes to the campground with the addition of 5 Glamping spots. 2 were Equestrian loop spot, nd the other 3 came at the expense of a few of the horse paddoks.
View of the glamping tents from our site.
Front view showing the nice porch, fire ring and they also had grilles. Also AC! I did like the fact that the lights are red to help with night vision.
Shot through the window. There was no car but the new guests hadn't arrived yet. Two queens and bunk beds so 6 people easy! I heard they were $175 a night so quite a bit more than the $23 I was paying lol.
Back at the site, I'm all set up for the night. Even got our flag out. As you can see I have my pineapple sippy cup on the chair so the cocktail light was on!
I went for a short hike to the south side of the hammock on the trail that leads out to primitive camping. I only went about 5-10 min just to take a peek. As the wind was SW it was much more breezy on this side.
Spotted one of the local wild turkeys. Oddly, the only one I saw all weekend. Usually, they are all over the place.
The Golden Hour! Always a highlight of the day. If you look down and to the right of the sun you see several palms.
I strolled about 150 feet to line them up and got this great shot with one in the middle. I may make a print of this one if I can sharpen it up a tad in Photoshop.
As I was by myself tonight, I didn't care about flame broiled dinner, so I cooked my Columbian sausage and potatos on the griddle and then lit the fire for sport.
A near full moon (2 days later), the waxing gibbous was reflecting plenty of light. This was around 9:30PM.
Wide angle shot of our site showing how much light the pineapple LED throws off. Was neat how it lit up the oak tree. It was a low key night. Originally, there was supposed to be a Space X launch, but it got pushed out to the following eve (stay tuned!). I was in bed by 11ish and slept a whopping 10 hours strait (I rarely do that).
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