"2 Teens and a Camper"
A Photographic and Written Diary of Our Family Trip Across this Amazing Country.

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Picnic at the lake

July 9th, 2012 Monday

Today we had a beautiful day spent at a lake in the Catskill mountains.

Here is the view from our picnic area.  Eric is fishing off to the right.

Here is a short panoramic video of the our picnic spot....


After lunch we took a nice hike and visited a beautiful expansive area overlooking the Hudson River in a distance.  This spot was the location of the Catskill Mountain House.

Here is everyone poised on a flat rock area at the overlook...
Note Barb's right foot and Jenny's left foot still pointed toward safer ground :-)

On our hike we also visited Alligator Rock (also known as Whale Rock).  Note the rocks placed inside the open mouth area for teeth.  The kids climbed inside for a photo....

While we were on our hike we stopped at another spot along the lake.  Eric and I waded into the water and we skipped stones too.  Briar fetched sticks thrown into the water.  We stayed there quite a long time.

Here is a little video of Briar enjoying a stick tossed into the water....



When we returned to the beach area, Eric took a short swim.  I had an opportunity to take a stealth photo of Jen looking at the lake area while Eric was swimming.  So many times on this trip we found each other gazing at beautiful areas like this...

In the evening we had a nice dinner of lasagna and then watched a movie called Fried Green Tomatoes.  It was a very good movie.

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