25 April 2019
It’s overcast this morning and just as I finished breakfast, it started to sprinkle. The phone app called Dark Skies said expect moderate rain for the next hour with 100% chance of rain today.
This was growing in my campsite. I’ve always been fascinated by this plant. It was one of the first I learned to identify in Boy Scouts.
I did a quick drive through the rest of the park. There is only the family campground I am in and a horse campground and two parking lots. Like I wrote yesterday, this is a hikers park.
While on the very short drive, I saw several big leaf magnolias in bloom along side of the road. I stopped and got several photos so you can better see what I meant in yesterdays photo. The zoom shot didn’t show any detail.
I scoped out some potential hikes for this afternoon and then returned to camp. I figure its a good curl-up-in-the-sleeping-bag morning and read a book. If the rain abates, I’ll think about the hike.
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It then merges with the Turkey Ridge Trail (I saw no turkeys but I did see two deer) and from there, I branched off to the Hidden Cove Trail (I also didn’t see the cove).
As per usual, I managed to get turned around at the point the Turkey Ridge Trail merges with the Hidden Cove Trail. If you start your climb in the opposite direction than I did, you will see the trail plainly marked. However, if you start the climb where I did, just before the actual junction of these two trails is another trail leading off. It was not marked. To make sure it wasn’t the trail I needed, I hiked it a ways and realized it was not what I was thought. I probably added 1/2 mile to my trip this morning/afternoon with my little side adventure.finished up at 2 pm so my 5.9 mile excursion took me 3 hours with rest stops and a lunch break.
Tonight’s meal is Chicken Vindaloo. I may pay for that later tomorrow. In any case, I’ll pack up (probably in the rain tomorrow) and head to Boone, NC to see an old friend Terry Hamilton. He taught Anatomy & Physiology on Central Campus while I taught Biology on South. We’ve been on a few field trips together and it’ll be good to catch up with him. After I have lunch with Terry, I head to Greensboro, NC to visit my cousin Jimmie and her husband Stephen. Showers and a bed!
