Pigpen and Licklog Falls

Who names waterfalls around here, anyway? They have the craziest names.  But today's hike was amazing! It took a bit longer to get there than expected, about an hour, and it was at the end of a long dirt road where we drove through a creek and such awesome things as that. We parked in a parking lot and got hiking, only to find about a mile later that we were at the real parking lot and the waterfalls were still .7 miles away. Oops!  It made for a nice distance though, more like 3.5 miles instead of 2.

The falls were gorgeous!

The first ones aren't that tall, but have a lovely pool at the bottom that we are already planning on coming back to in the summer to swim in. The moment Spencer saw them, he was doing his best to climb out of the backpack and get to them. 

So Bill took him down, took his shoes off, and he ran in, felt how frigid the water was, and ran back out as fast as he could. It was highly amusing, if a bit sad for him. This kid is a water lover. We'll definitely do swim lessons this summer.

Miss Genevieve was content to eat her graham cracker, the dirt, a rock, and basically anything she could get her hands on. Oh, and she refused to crack even a pleasant face for the camera.  Eating was far too serious an activity to bother to smile.

Spencer, on the other hand, is one photogenic chap. Well, Genevieve is too, she just gets serious around the camera. That'll change over time I'm sure.

We headed over to the second falls after eating and Spencer was a total trooper and walked there himself. It was only about 1/4 mile, but we haven't had him walk much when out hiking, so this was great. He was so happy to hold my hand and run down the trail. I didn't take any pictures, but we went way past the falls looking for a way to get down to see them, only to realize there wasn't one, and we discovered the big river the falls fed into. He was totally fascinated by it. We had been talking about the colors of the water and guessing what color it would be when we saw it.  His conclusion upon seeing it? White and green. Pretty astute, little guy. It was green with white caps on the rapids. 

Saw this beautiful little fern on the way, plus lots of trillium and beautiful spring growth

Genevieve was much happier to smile and giggle after we had seen both falls. Apparently she was just waiting on that. :)

We stuck Genevieve in the backpack and Spencer in the soft carrier for the trip to the second falls and back to the first falls, but Spencer was not cool with that, so we ended up switching them back for the last leg of the hike. We'd tuckered them both out and they both slept on the way back. I didn't get a shot of Spencer, but here's Genevieve. I have a cover that would have held her head up better, but I forgot it in the car. She didn't seem to mind or even be bothered enough to wake up. Ha ha! 

 So good day. Both kids conked out early tonight. Good for them, they deserve a good night's sleep!