Camping

This past weekend we took Viv on her first ever camping trip. We stayed in a cabin in Legion State Park in NE Mississippi. The park is quite nice, and barely used as far as we can tell. In two days of hiking around the park and exploring, we didn't see a single person on any of the trails. The park itself sits right on the edge of Tombigbee National Forest and is about 15 miles from Noxubee National Wildlife Refuge. The Refuge is 48,000 acres encompassing old-growth pine, shallow cypress swamps and lakes, as well as several thousand acres of natural prairie. Viv got to spend quite a bit of time outdoors and really enjoyed it. We'd like to make another trip back there soon and haul the bikes, Viv's trailer and the canoe with us. I'm thinking we might need to get a larger vehicle at some point to accommodate all of this :)

Anyway, on to some pictures with a bit of narration-

These three are just from a rest stop on the way up, traffic was pretty awful getting out of town then we got caught behind an overturned fifth-wheel camper on I-55 near Hammond.





Lake trail at Legion:




The view from the front of our cabin:



Another from the Lake trail:



The next group are a bunch of pictures of Viv in the cabin.










Alice at Woodpecker Trailhead in Noxubee:



The last round of pictures are various flora and fauna we found: