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| View from the bird blind |
I like Lost Maples a lot. So I am staying here for another day, mostly to bird and hike.
There’s a very nice birding blind next to my campsite in the overflow area. I spent several hours there in morning and saw lots of birds that were new to me, some with the help of the park’s birding host.
Among the newbies for me were the spotted towhee, vermilion flycatcher, black-chin hummingbird, scrub jay and white-winged dove.
Just for grins, I also hiked up to where my assigned primitive campsite was. It was up a rocky stream bed and then up, up, up.
It would have been a disaster attempting to get up there with the bike.
Also, there were only a couple of semi-level spots in the entire area where you could have pitched a tent. There was no water, no picnic table, no potty. Glad I stopped to talk to the camp host about it before attempting to get up there yesterday.
Alas, I was hiking in my all-purpose Chaco sandals today and somehow managed to jam one of my toes on a rock. Oh, yes. It hurt a lot, and then it continued to hurt for the next couple of weeks whenever I tried to weight it or walk. Fortunately, my foot didn’t hurt while I was pedaling the bicycle. Thankful for that.
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| Lost Maples picnic area |
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| Lost Maples trail |
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| Trail quickly gets rougher |
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| Primitive site |
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| Seemed like a nice swimming hole but lots of snakes |
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| Lost Maples bird blind |
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