Thursday, July 19, 2007
Salt Creek County Park
This morning we slept in until 7:30 (except Patty went running at 6:30). I made the girls' favorite breakfast: bacon, hashbrowns and eggs. Then I went for a swim in Crescent Lake. It’s a beautiful lake and crystal clear, but it was awfully cold – probably ~55. I only swam about 1/2 a mile. After I got out, we packed up and left and headed to Salt Creek Park.
As it turns out, we definitely should have come here in the first place as Catherine recommended (and skipped Log Cabin Resort). Log Cabin is in a stunning setting, but other than that it was a bummer with lots and lots of people and a late night crowd.
Salt Creek County Park is a big campground up on a bluff with a great view of the ocean. The first ½ of the sites have electric and water hookups as well as great views with each site on an asphalt pad. They’re lined up next to each other – sort of like Half Moon Bay state park. In a different section (tongue point) each site is set in a separate piece of forest so neighbors are completely out of sight. Some of them are in their own forest and have stunning views. They were awesome, but they didn’t have hookups (certainly not a deal breaker for us) and they were far from the play structure (a deal breaker – especially since it was a good one). So we went back to the first section and took site 3. It’s awesome. It’s right near the play structure, is in the front row so it has an awesome view, and it’s on the end so our door side faces the forest. And we have hookups.
The weather today has been interesting. We probably had a total of 3 hours of rain, and it was raining pretty hard at times. The trailer and the campsite were perfect for that – we put up our awning and extended it over the picnic table. We ate our meals outside and spent almost the whole day outside. When it was raining we were either under the awning or carrying umbrellas.
There are 2 trails down to the tide pools. We went down them both. It was fun, but it was pretty slippery (mostly from the rain) and Kate and Jessica both took some falls.
The sunset was great.
Tomorrow is supposed to be pretty wet. We’re hoping it’s not too bad so we can spend the day outside. Diane & Jim are driving up to spend some time with us and will come by in the afternoon and have dinner with us. Hopefully we won’t get soaked.
As it turns out, we definitely should have come here in the first place as Catherine recommended (and skipped Log Cabin Resort). Log Cabin is in a stunning setting, but other than that it was a bummer with lots and lots of people and a late night crowd.
Salt Creek County Park is a big campground up on a bluff with a great view of the ocean. The first ½ of the sites have electric and water hookups as well as great views with each site on an asphalt pad. They’re lined up next to each other – sort of like Half Moon Bay state park. In a different section (tongue point) each site is set in a separate piece of forest so neighbors are completely out of sight. Some of them are in their own forest and have stunning views. They were awesome, but they didn’t have hookups (certainly not a deal breaker for us) and they were far from the play structure (a deal breaker – especially since it was a good one). So we went back to the first section and took site 3. It’s awesome. It’s right near the play structure, is in the front row so it has an awesome view, and it’s on the end so our door side faces the forest. And we have hookups.
The weather today has been interesting. We probably had a total of 3 hours of rain, and it was raining pretty hard at times. The trailer and the campsite were perfect for that – we put up our awning and extended it over the picnic table. We ate our meals outside and spent almost the whole day outside. When it was raining we were either under the awning or carrying umbrellas.
There are 2 trails down to the tide pools. We went down them both. It was fun, but it was pretty slippery (mostly from the rain) and Kate and Jessica both took some falls.
The sunset was great.
Tomorrow is supposed to be pretty wet. We’re hoping it’s not too bad so we can spend the day outside. Diane & Jim are driving up to spend some time with us and will come by in the afternoon and have dinner with us. Hopefully we won’t get soaked.
# posted by Craig @ 10:00 PM 
