Virginia Hiking Trip Day 3

So on day 3 we did another hike in Smith Mountain Lake State Park.  Mom did not want to drive far away to hike becoz it was supposed to rain more.  We got up and out early in the morning and got back to the cabin before the rain got my furs wet.  And good thing we picked this pawticular day to do this hike coz all of my turtle furrends was waiting fur me - all 7 of them!

This be Turtle Number One

In the woods there was an old timey building.  I think this be a tobacco barn.  Well, it used to be but not any more.

I went in the lake real quick to get my furs wet.  That be different than the rain getting my furs wet (ICK) - HUGE difference.

Good morning Turtle Number Two!

Come on, Turtle Number Three, I'll race ya!

Here be another one of those old timey tobacco barns but it be in much better shape.

Mr. and Mrs. Duck was having a morning swim.

Here be Mr. and Mrs. Duck biggified.  Mom got a new camera that biggifies really big.

Mom's new camera biggifies so big we could see somebuddy at home in the wood duck house across the cove.  Hey, wait a minute, that's not a wood duck!  Is that an owl?  Can anybuddy tell who is in the wood duck house?

Then we headed over there to Turtle Island.

There be a bridge to Turtle Island.

But there was no turtles on Turtle Island.  Go figure.

But once off Turtle Island, wahlah, Turtle Number Four.  Howdy.

We took a break and I had some chicken jerky.  Nommy!

I heard BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ in the water so I had mom biggify it with her snazzy new camera.

Mom furgot to take my picture with Turtle Number 5 and Turtle Number 6.  Sigh.

This be Turtle Number Seven.  Well, if'n he was at home. 

Then we went back to the cabin and it rained all afternoon.  It was a good afternoon fur napping (me) and book reading (mom).

More to come, stay tooned fur Day 4...

Virginia Hiking Trip Day 2

 

So we woke up the next morning and it woz raining off and on.  Ugh.  But that did not stop us.  Nope, as soon as there woz a break in the rain, we woz off and hiking.  And we only had to drive like 87 seconds to get to the hiking trails becoz they woz in the same park as our cabin - pawsome!

We started on the Buck Run Trail.

We got ofur to the lake and it started raining again.  We waited unner the tree a bit.  There woz peeples out on the pier unner the roof trying to catch fish.

Whoa, a dog could fall in the lake here.

Have your pawrents open a bottle of Pine Sol and take a big sniff (them, not you, BLECH) and that be wot it smelled like here.

So I is standing here on the Osprey Point Trail looking out ofur the lake when all of a sudden, OMD, I seened a real live reality movie star in the fur!  Or in the feather...

It be Mr. Osprey from the Smith Mountain Lake Osprey Nest Cam presentation of "Keeping up with the Ospreys!"

You can watch these famous stars too right from you pooters on the innerwebs!  There will be little baby reality movie stars soon.

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Now, we don't want the little babies to be growing up with their street, the Osprey Point Trail, all yucked up by litterbugs so me and mom cleaned up fur them.  (The rest of the park had no litter, only this trail so lots of it mite has washed up from the lake but it be gone now.)

We carried the litter in my poo bag (with no poo in it) and stopped at the litter depository on the way back to our cabin.

We seened this snazzy sign on our hike, too, and I has to tell you, my V-E-T do always be amazed at how strong my heart be at 11 years old.  It do be from all this hiking, fur sure!  So go to your park and get healthy!

Then you can go back to your cabin fur a healthy snack...

... and a nap.  Stay tooned fur Day 3 ....

Virginia Hiking Trip Day 1

I is baaaaaaack!  Me and mom had a fangtabulous time and now I gets to relive it all while I tells all of YOU about my adventures.  We hiked 75 miles in 10 days and I has LOTS to tell.  So grab a box of Milkbones or nip (if'n you is a kitteh) and a fresh bowl of water and get ready....

Here I is leaving Noo Joisey early in the morning with my "Virginia is for Dog Lovers" bandanner but you cannot see the words coz they is up too high.  I had to share MY seat with the noms.  So you think that woz a good deal?  No way!  It woz all veggies and mom's drinks - BLECH!

Driving and driving and driving and driving and driving...

... and a gabillion hours later, here I is at the Blue Ridge Parkway!

There do be one little problem.  Our mountain woz in a cloud!  You will see more of that later when I is up IN the cloud!

So here we is at our first hike at Humpback Gap on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

I had to climb high up on rawks to get to...

... the wonderful seeniks at Humpback Rocks (but as you can see, furrends, the seeniks is in the cloud so we cannot see them.)

Oh. My. Dog! What is that little two-legger doing up there on the dangerous cliffs?  Mom yelled "WHERE IS THIS CHILD'S PARENTS?!!?!?!" and they came running to get her.  You has to watch those little two-leggers better than that!  Mom watches ME better than that!

So we left Humpback Rocks and went to the Appalachian Trail to go to the summit of Humpack Mountain.  That woz too far fur peeples with little two-leggers to go.

Getting up higher back into that cloud.

Another wonnerful seenik at the summit of Humpback Mountain.  Or mebbe not.  Doggone cloud!

Then I met a new furrend.  He be from Florida and he be hiking the WHOLE Appalachian Trail at one time!  All the way from Georgia to Maine!  It takes 6 months to do that.  His trail name be "The Dude" (you get a cool trail name when you thru hike the Appalachian Trail) and he be missing his dog wot he had to leave at home in Florida so I gibbed him some dog lubbins to make him feel better.

And I hiked some with him, too.

Then I met this thru-hiker, too and hiked a little with him but he was furry much faster than us so I did not see him fur long.  I did not get his trail name but he did tell mom he came all the way from Frankfurt, Germany to hike the Appalachian Trail!

So when we woz done with our hike, we went to the farm museum to see some old timey stuff.

An old timey log cabin.

Now this be my cup of kibble - the old timey chicken coop!

We got a little bit of a seenik on the Blue Ridge Parkway on the way to driving to our cabin but we had a crasher bug in this picture.

Then another gabillion hours later, ta da!  Our cabin at Smith Mountain Lake State Park!  Come on in and I show you around.

This be the porch fur chillin' and napping (me) and reading (mom) and stuffs.

The be the living room.  It be fur hanging out and chewing on your stuffies and stuff.

This be me and mom's bedroom.  It be fur napping.

This be a little two-legger room but we do not has any little two-leggers so we closed the door.  After I snootered around, of course.

This be the peeple potty but I stay out of there as much as possible coz that be were baths take place.  Shudder.

Those park peeples, always thinking!  Look wot they put ofur my nomming place.  It do wonders fur your appetite.  Skwerrel.  Drool.  (Mom bringed her laptop so we could keep up with the gazillion pictures we took but we did not has any innerwebs while we woz gone so I could not read my furrends' bloggies.  I catch up soon, 'k?)

So here I is hunkering down with Mr. Monkey fur a bit.  Stay tooned fur more on Day 2....

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