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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

At Peace Exploring Nature




                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       
This week I found such peace in this beautiful place we call home.  It started when I saw these Killdeer in the site behind ours.  As you can see from the picture above, the female is watching over her eggs.  Killdeer nest in gravel and their eggs blend in and look like stones.  When I went to check on her she was quite annoyed and starting yelling at me and spreading her wings.  The workers in the park are aware she is there and we all check on her every day.  It takes 24-28 days for the eggs to hatch, and when they do the babies come out running.  I only hope that I will be able to catch a picture of them before they leave.


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Our daughter and son-in-law came to visit on Saturday and we had a wonderful time.  Although the weather was cool we managed to have a cookout and campfire and just enjoy each other's company.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Our son came out to the campground on Wednesday.  He loved the location since it is close to Lake Ontario and great fishing spots.  We took him a mile up the road to marvel at these majestic waterfalls.  There is also a large pond across the street that was sparkling with the sun hitting it.                                          




 Knowing how he loves to fish, we took him to Port Bay, about 7 miles from our park.  This is the view from our chairs on the bank of the bay as we were watching him fish.  Unfortunately, the fish weren't biting but I am glad he has a sport that is so relaxing. He is so much like his father and I in the fact that he loves nature and loves to be outside.


 This is the part of nature I could probably do without.  This guy was waiting on the fishing dock when we arrived.











  Since the fish weren't biting at the bay, we drove to the end of the Port Bay to Lake Ontario.  Thought Raymond's luck might be better there.  While him and his dad were searching for fish, I went exploring on my own.  Climbing on all the large boulders along the shoreline, I came across this piece of driftwood.  It reminded me so much of a duck I knew it was a keeper along with the rock with the foot imprint. After Raymond left it started to rain, again, but nature showed its true colors again when the sun came back out with a beautiful rainbow outside our window.  Wish I had captured a picture of it, but I know there will be many more rainbows in our lives!





1 comment:

  1. Hope you get to see the killdeer eggs hatch. When we were at Rockhound SP there were birds nests in the eaves of the shelters at both our sites. The babies were chirping all the time. Sadly, the nest at Debbie's shelter got attacked by bigger birds and she found 2 dead babies on her patio. It's a tough life in the wild.

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