All the campsites here are on a first come first serve basis, which is a little nerve racking if you are hoping to get a campsite after you packed up everything and traveled all the way there. We however were very lucky to have made friends with the campground host who reserved a site for us ahead of time. A huge plus! This campsite turned out to be perfect.
While we set up camp, the kids found a slug to bother. :)
After setting up we decided to get right out and hike and check some of the trails. Believe it or not we FINALLY got Autumn into the backpack and she didn't scream at all! I guess if you try anything enough times with kids they finally give in.
Here she is just hanging out and enjoying the ride. Of course now that we had Autumn happy, Josslyn had to start complaining that she needed a turn in the backpack and that it wasn't fair.
So dense and lush!
A huge banana slug Joss found along the way.
Here we are trekking up to see the largest and oldest cedar tree. One of our favorite hikes.
Huge roots everywhere!
Part of the trail that leads up to the tree.
We made it. It was actually a pretty intense hike, but well worth it! This tree trunk was immense!
Looked like the inside of a cave in there. Kids had a blast in their new "fort."
Everywhere you looked you saw so much life! Gorgeous.
Back at the campsite trying to build a fire, which seemed near to impossible in this part of the country. It took about four tries. Things are just so wet out here.
Joss was starting to get annoyed at the fire for not staying lit and Auty just kept putting more and more wood on the fire.
They decided to forget about the fire and make a fairy house instead.
Everyone relaxing around the fire after dinner. :) Auty wanted a drink like daddy, so she filled up a beer bottle with water, but Josslyn on the other hand went for the real thing.
Thought this was a pretty neat picture of the water falling from the bottle.
After a night of Auty waking up about 5 times and screaming, we decided to power through and go for another small hike called the Rain Forest Trail, just down the road. This hike was more for little ones with all the educational signs everywhere, perfect for homeschooling that day. :) here is Joss holding a huge Maple leaf.
Oldest Douglas Fir tree
Being that I am very protective of my camera, it was hard for me to hand it off to a 6 year old to take photos with it. But Josslyn completely surprised me. She was amazing at it! She had, at that point on, became our new photographer.
A tree using another tree to grow from. Life just can't be stopped out here. It's quite incredible.
:)
"This we know, the earth does not belong to man; man belongs to the earth.
All things connected, like the blood that unites one family.
What befalls the earth befalls the sons and daughters of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life.
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself."
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