Cloudland Canyon

So, for this adventure we decided we wanted to go to Cloudland Canyon which is in Rising Fawn, Ga aka the middle of mt. nowhere! It's about an hour and a half from where we started.

As always on Fridays, we stopped for IHOP before we set out on our way. It's starting to get really cool in the mornings so it was fantastically cool when we began our little journey. I love fall weather. Anyway, once you reach the state park you have to pay $5 to park as usual at a state park. They also have a place to camp and a little pond you can fish in and even cottages. Once we parked, you can walk to the overlook and look out into the canyon and see just how far down you get to walk. But, the canyon was absolutely beautiful and seemed to go on forever! So we set out on our way and for anyone thinking about going here, you walk down what felt like a million steps. There are two falls down at the bottom, one goes really far down into the canyon and the other has less steps. We went to the one that went farther down into the canyon, but we didn't go down to where we could face the waterfall so I could take a picture. Then, we walked all the way back up and went to the other waterfall. Not many people were going to that one so we had the place all to ourselves. One thing is for sure, that was one heck of an exercise and my legs hurt for three days after so keep that in mind! Ok, picture time!!!

                   My big ol' grizzly bear found himself a cave. Such a funny grizzly bear XD

               This huge rock jutted out over a little bench where some dude was taking a break.

           And there was an awesome hornet's nest way up on the huge rock but it looked damaged.

Adventure buddy wanted to touch all the fuzzy caterpillars there were. They were all over the place and on the hand rails to where, if you didn't watch where you were putting your hand, you would touch a fuzzy caterpillar.

                                                     So many steps. Alllllll of the steps.

                                      It looked like a big foot footprint! BIG FOOT LIVES!!!!

                   Adventure buddy taking a picture of the big foot footprint. He facebooked it....

 We also found a persimmon tree and did the little seed test. If you haven't heard about this test here is how it goes: You take a persimmon seed and cut it in half (easier said than done) and on the inside there will be a shape. There are three shapes that you can find: a spoon, a fork or a knife. The spoon means that you will have a winter with a lot of snow, so much that you will have to "shovel" thus the spoon. The fork means that you will have a mild winter with just a light dusting of snow. The knife means that you will have a very cold winter "like a knife cutting through you." I do believe that this is a spoon.....fantastic.

Well that was our adventure for the week. I hope you enjoyed our pictures as much as we enjoyed taking them. I found a book on amazon earlier this week called Weird Georgia and I ordered it, it has all kinds of weird places to travel and things to do in the state of Georgia so we're going to go through it and find some things that we want to do. I also have a list of places I want to go so even though it's getting colder our adventures have just begun! So sit back and have fun with us!