Friday

Thursday was a beautiful day weather-wise, but, other than a walk around the loop of the campground where we are parked, and sitting outside, we didn't get much exercise. The weather report indicated that Friday would be the best of the remaining days we had here (rain and cold predicted for Saturday and Sunday), so we decided to ride our bikes and see as much of the campground as we could. I think that we rode about 7 miles and saw a lot more than we would have gotten to if we were walking.

We noticed the growths in the trees...

Yep, it's mistletoe!

Overlooking Lake Bridgeport - there was a large house and boat house that, according to Google Maps is part of Lucky Star Ranch (or dude ranch).

Carl commented that he had not seen prickly pear cactus since he left Arizona (nearly a year ago now!).

We saw deer in a couple of places along our ride.

Someone had recently distributed corn along the road and the deer were enjoying it. They weren't too scared of us either, moving into the brush as we rode by and then right back out on the road/driveway to continue eating.

 

At the end of our ride, we put the bikes back on the rack and walked down the path behind our site to the lake. Carl had seen kids down there on Wednesday throwing rocks into the lake.

 

This campground is really very quiet and nice. One of the places that we rode was to (but didn't take pictures) was the "Back Forty" - a few sites that are separated from the rest, and right next to a small airport runway. I suspect that if we come back this way, we may opt for a site there as I know Carl would enjoy watching the small planes.