What I did Saturday

[calcajun]

Keep in mind this was a spinoff of a photo TR i did elsewhere a while back.

Thought some of you guys might like to see these pics. I will try to find the other TR and post it later.

 

Well anyways, I went to check out another state park Saturday. This will be the 3rd one. I will probably give these a rest since all the trees are starting to look alike.

Plus they are all fairly close to each other so the type of trees, swamp and wildlife are pretty much the same. I did find that this particular park was the nicest one out of the three i visited so far.

 

I won't bore you with lots of pics. Just a few.

 

This is Tickfaw State Park in Springfield, LA.

 

 

There are quite a few different stops throughout the park with a pavilion, boardwalk and trail at each. The one i was most interested in was the trail that led to the river.

 

My first stop though was the Nature Center which was very nice. Plenty of awesome nature displays and whatnot.

 

 

 

 

 

This has the longest boardwalk of the three parks i visited.This was about half mile or more long.

The boardwalk winding through the trees and swamp.

 

 

 

 

I passed some peeps and they were talking bout a spider they see. I wanted to remember where the spot was so i could look later. Not long into my trip on the board walk, i ran into this one.

 

 

 

 

So the boardwalk here is broken up a bit with a trail at one point. This one is also quite long which is good. The others i walked elsewhere ended and i wanted more. This one ended and i was ready to move on.

 

 

 

 

 

So before leaving i go back to where this huge spider was suppose to be. Took me a few minutes but i found it.

Can you see it?

 

 

 

 

Yeah, it took me a while to find it. It was a good way off the board walk.the camera was zoomed in all the way for the photo above. Here is the same pic cropped.Keep in mind that i had no tripod and the cam was zoomed all the way in so this is a little fuzzy.

 

 

 

 

Off down the road. Some rental camps.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Little farther down and a picnic pavilion, trail and small water play area.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then down the road is a campsite. Beyond that you pass through the nice scenery. This park was just immaculate, clean and very nice to look at as you make way to each trail n stuff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So there are 4 or 5 diff areas with trails attached. I quickly checked on two of them that had the standard single file width gravel trails. I was headed straight to the back of the park to the last one that goes to the river though. Finally reached it. Again, the park is very clean and nice to look at. This is the very end of the park where the trails are located that head to the river.

 

 

 

 

 

This is more like a small road than a trail. Bout a mile to the river.

 

 

 

 

Along the way is usual stuff. Some trees and swamp. Then some swamp and trees.

 

 

 

 

Did i mention how some flying bugs can be a real pain in the ass?

Some more swampy area.

 

 

 

 

Came across this. I could not get close enough to take a good pic cause it would walk farther away every time i tried to get closer.

 

 

 

 

 

So after about a mile walk i reached my goal.

The river.

 

 

 

 

 

Here at the river bank there were quite a few butterflies eating something off the ground.

 

 

 

 

Nearby in some bushes were some more.

 

 

 

 

After playing with the bugs i started back. just before you hit the river you pass this trail. This one is quite different than all the other trails i walked so far. This one is more wild and scary.

 

 

 

 

 

It was also somewhat wet and soft

 

 

 

 

I decided to walk down it a little. Came across this odd shaped ant mound.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Decided to play with it for a while.

 

 

 

 

 

At this point in time i was super hot and all sweaty so didn't feel like getting on the muddy ground to get some real good close ups.

 

 

 

 

 

I did decide to disturb the top a little to get some ant action going. This didn't come out so well but it is lots of ants running round.

 

 

 

 

 

 

It is nice to spend half, or a day walking the trails n stuff. I don't think i could take a whole weekend of it.

 

The End

[Groteslurf]

Thanks for sharing. Some pics are really beautiful. Some very scary insects aswell. Wtf is that yellow-black insect

[calcajun]

I don't realy know what it is but, it looks like a grasshopper of some sort.Very colorful. It is quit big.

The last park i went to had some even larger in black and yellow.

So you get an idea of it's ize it is sitting on a two by four.

 

 

[calcajun]

Last week someone asked what i had been doing and i replied with this kinda PTR.

 

 

As you probably figured, i rode some coasters in texas this past week.

Besides that i have been wasting way too much time. Recently though i have been thinking how i don't even know what is around where i grew up and where i now live. I Had started looking at places in and around the area. More so state parks and scenic routes. Couple weeks ago i went to Northshore nature center. Intersting thing is that it is just one mile down the road from me. I have passed it hundreds of times but never realy knew what it was. It is a few miles of nature trails.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then not long after i visited Fountainbluex state park which is just a little farther down the road. I had been there before.

 

Sugar mill ruins in Fountainbleux state park.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Today i went to Fairview State Park.

This is the home of Mr Otis. He owned the land and house. He donated most of the land to the state then it became a state park. Then when he died he left the house to the state and it is now a museum.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Atchafalaya river

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then this eve i took a brisk 3 mile walk down the lakefront which is about a mile from me.

Saw these clouds and took a pic before my walk.

 

 

 

 

Just trying to do some different stuff.