Birthday Camping Trip

For my birthday, I requested a camping trip to Salt Creek, which is one of my favorite places to just go and be outside. It's what we call the "mini beach", because although it is still the ocean, it is nothing like La Push or other parts of the Pacific coastline.

Lucky for us, there was a break in the weather and it was beautiful last weekend! We enjoyed a weekend camping trip with our friends Steve and Nikki and our four pups. Only crazy things we heard in the midst of the night were stupid rodents of unusual size---aka raccoon---making quite the ruckus over the cliff below us, on the water edge.

Otherwise, we enjoyed the view of Canada and the Strait of Juan de Fuca and each others company, plotting our next weekend getaway when we get back from Colorado. We were even lucky enough to get our friends addicted to geocaching. :)

Our campsite

Madelynne's own Coleman

Chillaxin'

Couldn't forget her ponies

cuddling with the pup

Checking out the view with Steve

Stealing Nikki's spot

Bald eagle that hung around our camp

Canada in the distance and boats in the Strait

Hours of a fun in a box

Rock hopping

Sea anemone

Love these things

Tried saving this starfish---not sure if I did or not.

Enjoying the campfire

We taught her to use the stick as paddle and pretend to be in a boat

"Love" trees, wrapped up in each other

Geocaching with the pups

Having fun while the boys figure out the clues

Showing off her flowers

Trying to figure out the clues to where the cache is

Calculating---and we still didn't find it. :(

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