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Spring is in the Air: Our First Hike of 2021

March 3, 2021 /

As soon as the weather gave us a taste of spring, I corraled the kids and we headed to our nearby state park for our first hike of the year. I was very nice and chose a short 1 mile hike that I knew would be an easy one for everyone and a way to ease in back into walking outdoors again.

Thankfully everyone enjoyed the hike! We gave our 6 and 10 year old some old cell phones to take pictures and they thought that was really fun and spent a lot of time finding things to take pictures of. I love how when we hike, we always see something different. This hike was no different: the water was really low and we saw sights we had never seen before.

All of this is usually under water! There were shells and little fresh water clams. Such a neat sight!

It’s amazing how good you feel when the sun is out and you are outdoors enjoying it. I sometimes wish for more of a change in seasons but I sure cannot complain of our weather in Georgia. The weekend of our hikes, it was in the mid fifties and the following week in the low seventies in the afternoon.

One thing that struck me is that the dirt is red clay under the lake too! We have red clay everywhere in Georgia which is not the greatest to grow things. It’s everywhere and messy too!

We spent more time here than the walking actually took but the boys had fun exploring.

Apart from the clams, we didn’t see any living creatures, we usually come accross a frog, a snake or a couple insects.

Going on a hike like this heralds in the change of seasons and gives us some things to look forward to. I would like to explore a few more state parks we haven’t visited yet in Georgia.

Even when the water is deeper, we don’t swim in this lake. The water is kind of murky and just not appealing to swim in. Maybe jumping off of a pontoon in the middle of the lake but where you can walk in, no thank you!

Have you all been hiking yet this year? Or has it been too cold?

A bientôt!

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