 Friends         |  Caleb_M: Happy New Years, all, may you each be healthy, happy and blessed this 2020. Best wishes and prayers, Caleb 4 years ago • Report • Link 0  SunshineDeb: Happy New Year Caleb! 3 years ago • Report 0  Caleb_M: More of Lightning Crick. Fast and free and untamed. I used to swim her as a child and my mother and her brother and sister swam there as children too. I was in walking distance from the families homestead. Caleb_M: Another set of hiking pics, I guess the wildlife haven't gotten the memo that says they stay still until after I get the pic.....lol      Caleb_M: It is quite the spring Lovechild, 4 million gallons a day according to the signs. There are tons of turtles and lots of ducks, herons, and egrets, some squirrels and other animals too, but they don't seem to want to stay for pics. And of course there are the alligators. This pic is the largest I have seen there. She (I think female b/c she was so large-I believe female alligators are larger than males-but I didn't make her acquaintance).was only a couple of feet off the hiking trail that goes around the spring. Needless to say that trail wasn't used while she was there. I have seen four other alligators there, but they were all considerably smaller (4'-5' range, this one was easily (8'-10' and very assured of her dominance of the area. lol  lovechild5660: NIce pix Caleb, Id comment on each but, u didnt put them in that way  Still are nice, ty for sharin Caleb_M: You are very welcome. I hope you enjoyed looking at them as much as I enjoyed going to take them. I do love hiking in the woods. Caleb_M: Yes I did Lovechild, it was fine, the problem was getting to the bridge and then back out of the gorge, its about 1,200 stairs. Talk about shaky legs, lol. beautiful views though and the falls at the bottom of the stairs were absolutely incredible. View all 4 posts (Post deleted by staff ) Caleb_M in reply to SunshineDeb: Thanks Deb and Laura (do I still need to start with "Laur"...lol) I have been doing a lot of hiking lately. Got a lot of great pics, the profile one, isn't one of mine, its from a park website. But I have hiked some really beautiful places. Its good exercise and very de-stressing for me. Hope you are well. Caleb Caleb_M: Long Hike today, I saw a lot of wild life, three adult deer, too fast to get pics or even see enough to know doe or buck, 1 was so big pretty sure he was male, a tiny-tiny fawn, dog sized very tiny, also really fast no pic, two Osprey, pretty sure they were a mated pair, they were circling a wooded hill and landing alternatively in the same-ish tree, it was across a lake so not much detail and the only pics I got were too blurry to see anything. I red tailed hawk, flying really near but again gone by the time I got my phone out of my pocket. Three snakes, one pretty sure was a cotton mouth, the others were zoom-gone, couldnt see details, then the pics I did get, a turtle building a nest to lay eggs, I am fairly sure, a big ol' toad, who just sat there, didnt mind me taking a picture at all, and three Juvenal armadillos. They were about half adult size all in a group. In the pics U see one out of the ravine and the others in it, there were foraging and wanted into the ravine, the sides were just dirt and mud and steep. So one by one they tried to climb down, slipped rolled up in that ball that they do and rolled into the ravine. Then unrolled from the ball and started digging under leaves and debris. It was so comical i couldnt stop laughing. Hope U all enjoy. Caleb
      Jante_nut: I e only seen dead armadillos on the side of the freeway here. Thank you for sharing your hike with us. I hope it wasn’t as hot there as it is here lovechild5660: Cute frog. I have a frog here too, have only seen it once. Of course i gotta pic! Lol Caleb_M: So I finally got around to uploading pics from my hikes in Tallulah Falls and Red Top Mountain (again TY to Piney Memories for the hiking tip-Red Top Mountain is awesome). Both are incredibly beautiful places. Very tranquil and inspiring. And yes the water in that pic really is that color green, almost iridescent green. My guess is algae or some such phenomenon. Beautiful, but I would swim in the open lake rather than those small bays, they are all that really green color though and it is breathtaking. The house, I just couldn't believe it, it's so much like a cartoon Halloween witch's house. I had to stop and take a pic of it. It is obviously abandoned. I guess the witch moved, LOL. Hope U all enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed seeing them IRL. Great Hikes. -Caleb   Caleb_M: Lightning Crick (meaning creek or stream) in Northern Idaho. One of the places we scattered mother's ashes. Cold clear, clean snow melt water directly from the high peaks in the Rockies. Caleb_M to SunshineDeb: PS I thought anything ginger bread might just be a little too Freudian for my own good public standing.  |
oh caleb lhahaha but oh that gingerbread is good lol