On Thursday, we headed out to have an adventure. Matt wanted to geocache, I wanted to check out a new campground and we all wanted to go to the museum and see the sun set at Cheaha.
We started out leaving later than I planned, which set everything back an hour. Then the place Matt wanted to cache was not where I had understood it to be, so we ended up driving a long way to get there. We cached about an hour and then went to get lunch and to check out the campground. There is a bridge out about 5 miles back on the roads you take to get there, so I did not get to see it. : ( By the time we got back out to a paved road, it was after 3, so we decided to skip the museum this time in order to get to the state park and play a while before the sun went down.
We were taking some family shots and Matt nailed his head on a rock, which pretty much ended the whole 'fun' part of the evening, so we drove around to watch the sun set and headed home. Not the great adventure I had hoped for, but I do know the roads to the campground are maintained and hard-packed, I would take Poppy out there for a few days. If I knew what the campground looked like.
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| We went caching at the old Coosa River Annex in Talladega. |
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| It's that part of Alabama that is a combination of pine trees, bramble and red mud |
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| There are these 'igloos' all over the 300 some odd acres. They used to house explosives. |
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| Now they hold graffiti and tire marks. The echo inside is amazing, I have never heard anything like it. |
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| There was a cemetery in the annex, so I had to go check it out. It was run-down and depressing, the graves were in the side of a rocky red hill and none had been tended in years, most of the stones were falling apart. |
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| It looks like the city might be doing something with some of the old bunkers. We passed this crew right near the front cutting a bigger opening into the front of one of the bunkers. There is a man in a white hard hat sitting down beside that truck. He's operating a water-cooled cutter via remote! |
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| I really did not take many pictures, this is at Cheaha out on Bald Rock. |
The sunset was not spectacular. There were no clouds to bounce color off of and the sun was simply directly ahead and blinding. I got what I could, it was FREEZING on the brow.
