Birthday Post

So Monday was my birthday. Adventure Buddy took me out for lunch and bought me an awesome T-Rex cupcake. And then later on some friends from work surprised me with a surprise party. It was a pretty awesome day and I'm thankful for all the people that wished me happy birthday and helped me celebrate!!! 

Birthday Pictures:

Hickey Gap Campground

Last Friday adventure buddy and I went to a place one of the guys from work told me about. It's called Hickey Gap Campground in Crandall, Ga. It's a very small campground out in the middle of nowhere and you have to take a gravel road for about 7 miles before you reach it. Once you get to the campground, you can go down into the campground or there's a place for "day parking." It's a free campground by the way. It's a bit of a hike from the day parking down to the river and I don't recommend it after it's rained or it's still dewy, mostly because I fell and busted my butt on the hike down. But, once you reach the river it's beautiful! There are several little "rapids" and a waterfall with some shoals at the bottom. You can climb on the rocks at the falls and it has several places that would be nice swimming holes when it's not cold. Here are some of the pictures I took there:

This was just a little funny fungi that looked like a penis coming out of the ground. We have dirty minds and laughed about it for a while.

I recommend this little place, it's nice and isolated and not too bad of a hike. It's a beautiful river and it's very pretty during the fall but I bet it's even better in the summer when it's not too cold to play in the water. You can google Hickey Gap Campground to find directions. 

What's Shakin?

I know it's been a little while since I've posted anything but these last few weeks work and life has been absolutely CRAZY and Adventure Buddy and I haven't had time to do any kind of adventuring. Hopefully we'll be able to go on an adventure soon though! For now, how about some pictures from Halloween??

So it's been almost a month....

It's been almost a month since I posted anything. I know, I'm sorry -____- I suck. Lately the adventure buddy and I haven't had much time to go adventuring. Sometimes, adventure time takes a back seat to real life. We've also been working on becoming more than just adventure buddies. :D It's been a little weird considering I'm literally HALF his age but eh what are you going to do? Anyway, that's not the point of this post. Last Friday we went for a little ride and somehow found our way to Fort Mountain! (Don't ask me how because I have no idea, this is why I don't do the driving!!!) So we decided to hit up the state park and see what it had to offer. Our first stop was at the little information center/store which they called The Trading Post. They had some interesting things, mostly things dealing with bears. I wish I had been able to take a picture of some of the things they had but I didn't get to take many pictures inside. Here's what I did get:

After we finished playing around inside we hit the road to find the trails. Apparently they have two different trails to hike, one is only about a mile and the other is eight miles....we chose the mile one. This trail leads up to the overlook and the tower they have at the top. Since it's finally becoming fall in Georgia, it was a little cool on the mountain and I'm the goober that brought shorts so I shivered the entire hike up to the top. As far as adventure hikes go, this was by far our easiest one to date. When we got to the tower, they were doing some work on it and you couldn't get to it which is probably something they should have told you before you hiked all the way up there but eh whatever, I still got pictures. 

This is the tower at the top. It's supposedly a fire watch tower build by the "moon-eyed" indians. There's a whole story about that in two of the pictures a little further down. 

Adventure buddy brought a walking stick and since we couldn't go up to the tower he decided he was going to play baseball with the nuts on the ground....

                                                      The view from the overlook.

                     The story of the tower and the "moon-eyed" people that supposedly built it.

All in all it was a nice little adventure that didn't take too long. If you go on this hike, beware! There are plenty of rocks and roots to trip over on the trail and face plant. Luckily nothing like that happened to us (knock on wood! I don't want to jinx myself for our next adventure.) But if you're up for a nice little walk I highly suggest this one, especially during the fall when all the leaves are starting to change color. It was very beautiful.