Camping

A few weekends ago Logan and I went camping w/ some friends of ours, Andrew and Stacy. We picked out a place with a fitting name, Andrew's Cove. Logan and I have driven by the campground many times on the way to her brother's, but had never camped there. After driving up Saturday morning, we ate lunch at our campsite and headed out hiking. High Shoals Trail is a little over a mile long and descends from the parking lot to the 300 ft waterfall that is the trail's namesake. Along the way you pass a second water fall called Blue Hole Falls. Like the name implies, there is a large swimming hole that looked very tempting on a hot summer day. We continued down the trail to the big waterfall, checked it out for a little bit and headed back.

After hiking we headed into the town of Helen to stock up on some dinner supplies that I had forgotten. The dinner menu was bratwurst, hamburgers and baked beans. Dinner took a while to cook on the beat up grill, but it was still darn tasty. Smores by the campfire finished everything off.

After sacking up in the tent, Kaia was freaking out because of the other people in nearby campsites. She started whining and standing on her back legs to look out the tent windows. We finally settled her down and went to sleep. The night was uneventful until 6 am when distant thunder woke us up. Let me tell you, you've never seen two tents and all the car camping gear broken down and packed up so fast. We weren't about to get stuck in an early morning thunderstorm. We drove back a good portion of the way in the rain, so we were glad we decided to leave early. You can check out some pictures on Flickr: