Camp Blood: Anniversary Weekend at Caddo Lake

Craig & I celebrated our 12th anniversary this weekend! Actually it's not until the 23rd, but we decided to celebrate with a camping trip on Friday the 13th!

(Man I look high in that pic!)

Craig & I spent our anniversary at our favorite place in Texas, Caddo Lake State Park. It is the only natural lake in Texas. The lake itself is swamp & marshland with miles of sloughs & bayous to explore. We had a great time, even though we had a cold front come in which made it freezing while on the lake. We're going to go back again this summer when it will be hot & a lot of creatures should be scurrying around. The only thing we saw this time was some deer out on an island. We still have yet to see any snakes or alligators, which there are many in the area.

On the Texas State Park website, it lists this info: Activities enjoyed include camping, hiking, swimming, picnicking, nature study, fishing, and boating.
Naturalists can enjoy stately cypress trees, American lotus, and lily pads, waterfowl, alligators, turtles, frogs, snakes, raccoons, minks, nutrias, beavers, squirrels, armadillos, and white-tailed deer.

I don't know about you, but I'm not so sure about swimming anywhere that alligators may be present!

We always rent a boat from Crip's Camp, located in Uncertain, Tx. Uncertain is a tiny town with a population of 150. We spent around 5 or 6 hours exploring the lake & locating a couple geocaches along the way. Geocaching was trickier then normal because everything looks camouflaged with all the spanish moss hanging from the trees. We also briefly got stuck on an underwater beaver dam. But after some paddling & shifting our weight on the boat, we were able to free ourselves & backtrack out of the shallow area...

At the campsite we had a good time playing games & going hiking for a while. On Friday night we had to help out some neighboring campers who had run down their truck battery & were stranded in the rain, We ran back to our truck to help jump them off & also flagged down a forest ranger who assisted us. There was also an old man a couple sites down that had the cutest little dog. The funny thing was that the first time we saw him was when the man stumbled into our site trying to catch his dog, who had gotten away from him. Once he caught him, the man kept getting tangled in the leash & almost fell over. Then for the next 2 days, every time we saw the man he was always either tangled in the leash or running after the dog. This was a little dog, not some huge one that could drag you down the street, but maybe about 10 lbs. I couldn't help but laugh. Now it all made since why it took the man over an hour to back his camper into his site. LOL

Here are some pics from the trip. With the sky being overcast, the pictures came out kind of grey, instead of the usual colorful pics I get when it is sunny. And all the pictures of the 2 of us were either blurry or we looked stupid because we were freezing. LOL