We left Friday, June 19 for our "traditional" Father's Day Camping Trip to Deerfield Lake, Whitetail #10, our favorite camping spot at Deerfield Lake. The lake is full of water and overflowing! What a beautiful sight to behold!! After 7 years of drought, I never thought I'd see the lake this full again!!
Driving into the campground and across from #10 a tree had uprooted the night before, thank God there were no campers in that spot! We met the new camp host Damian, and found out the night before there was a storm with high winds and about 6 p.m. the tree had just uprooted, probably due to the wet grounds from all the rain. A young boy that had come for the weekend to camp with his family, was so upset by this, that they had to take him home, he refused to camp here! I have to say it was a sight to see this magnificient tree had just fallen over!
We got every thing set up and went for a short hike, there were threatening clouds all around us, and felt lucky we didn't get rained on or worse! Whitetail was almost full by the time we got back, we had supper, and went to bed early, we were tired! It did rain during the night, with a little thunder, but no high winds or lightening!
After a lovely breakfast, complete with brewed coffee, we drove over to Dutchman Campground, just to check things out, and it was closed, temporarily, due to falling trees!!! That kind of freaked us out!! We found a trail and went hiking/ throwing the ball for Maggie, as we walked. We found all kinds of little streams and dams! And everything was so lush and green!!
Maggie and Marlee enjoy hiking and exploring, they didn't bother crossing on the logs here, like we did, they went full steam ahead right through the water!! And Marlee proved to be the daredevil again, going to the highest point in the forest, logs, stumps...the weather was perfect for hiking, and we all got some much
needed exercise.
On the way back to the truck, I threw Maggie's ball and it ended up in a pine tree, we thought it was probably gone for good, and Maggie was having a fit!! We couldn't even see it!! After 15 minutes of trying to get it down, Darrell finally was able to get it for her......her hero!!! She was what we call a "happy
camper!"
We had a wonderful lunch of hot dogs, beans, smores, roasted marshmellows over the camp fire, and then it was rest time!!!
Marlee took a much needed nap in her favorite spot in the camper! She loves napping and watching what is going on in the campground! She's so nosy!!
After napping, we went for another short hike, with threatening clouds all around us again, and felt lucky again that we weren't rained on or worse, by the looks of those clouds. We made pizza for supper and went to bed early again.
The next morning we drove around the lake and found this family of Canadian geese and enjoying watching the babies on the shore and in the water.
After a much needed break and some "down time" we had to pack up and go home, realizing that once again we had been fortunate enough to visit "God's Country" once again!
