On the last morning, we had pancakes for breakfast and the kids finished off the last of the donuts.
While Zac packed up camp, I took the kids down to the creek, where Alice read and Simon built things out of rocks.
Meanwhile, I watched the butterflies.
Here's a moth Simon rescued from the creek. He was quite proud of himself.
Once we were all packed up, we took a short hike down to Hidden Falls and Window Falls.
I think Hidden Falls is my favorite from the whole trip because it was not crowded. (At least not on a Monday!)
We saw lots of wildlife there and the kids played for a long time, catching things.
Zac found these terribly huge spiders tucked in a corner.
And also this creepy snake. The rocks are alive!
Zac found a humongous crawdad.
Simon and Alice found the tiniest crawdads.
Alice started her nature documentary career today.
We could have stayed there forever, but eventually we moved downstream a bit to Window Falls. On the way, the kids decided to scale a small cliff, just to give their parents extra stress.
Zac and Simon spent most of the time looking for critters downstream of the falls.
A secret falls behind (and above) window falls.
After the falls, we headed to our final destination on the way out of the park: Tory's Den and Falls. The Den was a really cool cave.
The falls was beautiful but not really accessible, and the view was from terrifying cliffs. Having kept our kids alive this long, we hated to have them plummet to their deaths at the very end of the trip, so we didn't stick around very long. Plus a big thunderstorm was coming.
All in all, a great trip. I love the mountains!
