Camping

After several mis-communications, resulting in 15 total hours of driving to camp 80 miles from home, we brought the family together and spent a nice afternoon and evening camping this weekend. We went to the Los Padres National Forest in the Santa Barbara area. Our campsite was quite remote (which accounted for 6 hours of the driving), but very beautiful. It was surrounded by oaks trees which provided plenty of shade. There was a nice creek about 70 yards from our campsite with a gravel beach alongside. We walked in the creek and built a dam and skipped rocks. In the afternoon we drove up the road to the "hot springs". They had built a few pools and piped the hot water into the pools. I was expecting something mildly lukewarm, but those pools were downright hot! They were hotter than the water in my shower! I couldn't even get in because they were so hot. I was quite amazed. We went for a long creek walk where we were able to see all sorts of wildlife, tadpoles, frogs, turtles and even a water snake. We topped of the evening with a round of the card game spoons, and s'mores.