Jackson Lake State Park, Colorado
Dang, was it hot last night. It didn't cool off until well after midnight. By cool off I mean dip into the 90's. We had an incentive this morning to head on out and head for cooler weather.
Before we left the campground we took some time to watch the prairie dogs. Interesting to watch this vulture. He wasn't intimidating the prairie dogs, but he was putting on quite a show.
Western Kansas, Eastern Colorado pretty much the same except the humidity has seemed to have left us. Unfortunately, I think the fireflies have too. Not going to miss the humidity, but am going to miss the fireflies. I just love lying in bed every night and watching them magically flicker in the dark. We pulled into Jackson Lake around noonish and got a "lakeside" campsite. It can be accessed by some concrete steps. Before we even set up camp Ned went and checked it out. Ha! The wind was up and the lake was super choppy and cold.
We toyed with the idea of getting slammed against the rocks in our floaties, but then settled for Moscow Mules on the rocks instead.
Our big activity for the day was moving our chairs to take advantage of the wind. Dang, 90 degrees sure feels different without humidity! It was incredibly windy which felt great.
We had a super chill day mainly just hanging out and watching the pelicans dive for fish, the cormorants flying about and even the clueless turkeys. I've never seen so many pelicans in one place.
We're also reading some pretty good books. Me, reading about Alexander Hamilton and Ned reading about the 1950's, specifically Harry Truman and Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War. We have fun reading each other dramatic parts of our books. Kinda fun hopping back and forth between centuries.
BTW - shout out to my fam; either Gary or Marc, but someone stocked our pantry with buns and other good eats. Alas, tonight's dinner was brats, corn and kale salad. (Okay, the buns were a little smashed, but hey it's camping!)
Ned grilled, I waited ever so patiently...
After dinner we decided to take a bike ride on some country roads and explore the Jackson Lake area. The prairie, birds and ponds were so beautiful in the changing light.
Spectacular evening sky!
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