Camping in February?
Mar 2nd, 2008 by jcchickles
Yep – we did it! The kids had President’s Day off and the forecast for the weekend was 69-70 degrees, so we packed up the camping gear and headed down to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. Actually a lot of people had the same idea, but luckily we were able to get an awesome open spot right by the river.
After setting up camp, we went on a 4 mile hike in the park. The kids found this awesome set of fallen trees, that looked like a playground (the lizards like hanging on them too!).
Time for silly faces…. 
At the end of the hike was Pfeiffer Falls. It hadn’t rained in a little while, so they weren’t huge but still very pretty. The falls were tucked back in through a trail of giant redwoods.
Of course, this was a good time for a cookie break before heading back to camp!
Even though it was nice and warm during the day, it definitely cooled off when the sun went down. We were ready to hover by the fire, eat some dinner and then just had to finish it off with some yummy peach-blueberry cobbler cooked on the fire – Yummmm!
On that Sunday we decided to head further south. We stopped at another falls which I guess it the only falls in California that empty right out onto the beach. We then found a little picnic stop next to a beach where the kids couldn’t resist putting their feet into the water. Derek and I just watched – brrrrrrrr!
After getting back to camp, the kids wanted to explore down along the river by our campsite. The kids found this great sitting tree on this little island in the river that was easily accessible. It was super comfortable!
On the way back home, we stopped at one of our favorite state parks – Point Lobos. It’s a great place to hike, walk on really neat rock formations and find all kinds of cool critters in the tide pools. There were a lot of good sized crabs walking about on the rocks that day and we even got really lucky in seeing a family of grey whales migrating south! At first we could only see a few spouts, but then they actually started diving so we could see their tails as they headed down – very neat!
We’re looking really good at this point too after a couple of days of camping. Time to hurry home and take a nice long shower. 🙂
