Keystone State Park 2009
It was a no-weenie weekend at Keystone State Park. Andrea introduced us to geocaching, and we spent part of Sunday traipsing around the Oklahoma countryside with a GPS device tracking down hidden caches. We found six. It was quite fun, actually, like searching for hidden treasure. It's a new dimension to the world; after checking the website, it turns out there are several caches within walking distance of my house. I will have to track them down, now that I know they are out there.
Most of the ice along the shore had melted by the time we went hiking, but a few spots still remained.
The shoreline below our cabin.
Looking towards the dam.
We found a bunch of these rocks that looked like petrified trees. I don't know if they were really fossils, but they were fun to see, anyway.
A twisted tree. It looks like driftwood, but it's still rooted and alive.
If you look closely, you can see that Andrea is pointing at a driftwood log that is caught in the branches of this tree. This shows how high the water in the lake was at one time, and how low it is now. The base of this tree is 15-20 feet above the current water line.
My first geocache!
Contents of my first geocache. We took a blue plastic salamander.
This was a microcache concealed on a guardrail.
A little branch off the Arkansas River beneath the dam. We saw several eagles.
For Rhiannon... this is a titmouse. We fed birds on the railing of our cabin's porch.
I usually don't like lens flares, but I thought this one was rather pretty.
Beautiful winter sunset.
And I'll end it with a nuthatch butt. :)
Most of the ice along the shore had melted by the time we went hiking, but a few spots still remained.
The shoreline below our cabin.
Looking towards the dam.
We found a bunch of these rocks that looked like petrified trees. I don't know if they were really fossils, but they were fun to see, anyway.
A twisted tree. It looks like driftwood, but it's still rooted and alive.
If you look closely, you can see that Andrea is pointing at a driftwood log that is caught in the branches of this tree. This shows how high the water in the lake was at one time, and how low it is now. The base of this tree is 15-20 feet above the current water line.
My first geocache!
Contents of my first geocache. We took a blue plastic salamander.
This was a microcache concealed on a guardrail.
A little branch off the Arkansas River beneath the dam. We saw several eagles.
For Rhiannon... this is a titmouse. We fed birds on the railing of our cabin's porch.
I usually don't like lens flares, but I thought this one was rather pretty.
Beautiful winter sunset.
And I'll end it with a nuthatch butt. :)