Day of Rest

Once again it rained in the night...but this time only a little. 

We decided this campground would be a convenient place to rest for a day.  I was very tired and needed to rejuvenate.  
We installed a temporary clothesline and hung our now-pungent clothing up to dry, hoping it would do some good...

We had the rest of the cheap milk on granola for breakfast...I thought it was disgusting, but Tuck was still in great appreciation of the substance...

My hair looked terrrible after three days of lots of sweating and no showers...I decided to try washing my  hair in Pine Creek.  I had brought baking soda to use instead of shampoo, so it wouldn't damage life in the creek the way soap would.  It worked very well...

The creek was a lovely and peaceful place to hang out at.  There were quite a few kayak-ers, tube-ers, and canoe-ers...probably because it was Saturday...

Tuck was fine, and felt ready to roll...but I was so tired I took two naps!  He rode around the immediate area checking out lots of stuff...and discovered what looked like an old abandoned farm, and the area of the camp where the Adirondac shelters were...which is actually where we were supposed to be staying...

Today we also got to see a bald eagle for the first time!  It flew down near enough for us to see it's white head and tail...so beautiful and wild!

Here is a photo of an eage flying high above the mountains...

 My feet had acquired pretty intense tan lines from wearing sandals all the time...

That evening we decided to try making a fire to cook over instead of using the slightly frustrating little camp stove.  Firewood was terribly hard to find...but we did manage to get enough and get a fire going good enough to cook soup!

I cut up all the woody carrots and threw in some bullion, pasta, garlic, cayanne, salt, pepper, and some dried onions too.  It tasted pretty good...though a little smoky....

Our clothes had dried by evening, and so had everything else....

The food bag was actually pretty easy to hoist into the tree since both the rope and the tree branch were dry and slipped easily against each other.  I had been so exhausted that I was ready to go to bed in the evening in spite of the two naps!