Saturday, September 27, 2008

9/24-25/08 - Letchworth SP, NY

Captain’s Blog

Before leaving Four Mile Creek State Park we walked the park with Jewel. It is definitely a place that we would return to. There are tons of weeping willow trees in the park that are huge and spectacular.

We arrived at Letchworth around 2 pm. We had hoped we could get the same site we had on our last visit here but since we have a dog now we were banned from that area of the park. There are very strict pet limitations here and three of the six loops are doggy banned. This was the only place besides the border crossing into Canada that we had to show proof of rabies vaccination. We had a light lunch and headed out to tour the park.

Once again we were not disappointed in the park. It is beautiful here and a place to wind down and enjoy the outdoors and wildlife. We saw many deer, squirrels, raccoons and one lone red fox.

Again, Ron set Jewel free in the many fields only to find that she would return covered in sticky birds. Cleaning her up without hurting her took some time. She is a patient dog and lets us do just about anything to her so eliminating all the sticky birds from her fur was not too stressful for her or us.

We did our daily mandatory hikes to the three waterfalls in the park that did not disappoint the second time around. We returned to the Middle Falls by the Glen Iris Inn after nightfall to view them when lit. They were beautiful but
Check out the video.
unfortunately Ron did not put the camera on night lighting so the pictures did not come out.
We spent our last night at Letchworth by the campfire reflecting on our trip and how much we enjoy life on the road. Tomorrow we plan on visiting Watkins Glen, a gorge with guess what- almost one thousand steps with only one way up and down. We have climbed and descended so many steps this trip that we do not need to buy stair-stepper. Climbing stairs is not a problem for us anymore and we do not even get winded – I think we are finally getting into some sort of physical shape. Of course when we get home we’ll have to force ourselves to continue to exercise –

HAH!!!

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