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Happy Birthday Meadow!
So, Sunday was Meadow's birthday and we decided to check out Castlewoods Canyon State Park in Castle Rock, 1/2 hour south of our place. It's a very cool park with lots of canyons, hiking trails and a creek running through it. We picked a hiking trail and started our trek. The terrain was very rocky and sandy with lots of large boulders strewn around. As we were getting close to the end of our loop, we took what we thought was the trail down to the water. As Meadow was walking over one of the boulders, she slipped, and the noise startled a rattlesnake that was hiding in a small cave just off the trail. The snake sounded its rattle which scared us both.
Meadow went running and I backed up out of the way. After we realized what was going on, I approached the cave and focused the sun's reflection off my camera lens into the cave to shed some light on the culprit. Although it looked like more than one snake, it turned out to be just one. I could clearly see its rattle and its head with tongue flicking. I snapped off some pictures and since it wasn't too happy to see us, we moved on to finish our hike. Needless to say it was an eventful hike. We've never seen a rattlesnake in the wild or heard their rattle so close.
Stay tuned for tales of our next adventure...The Changing of the Aspens.
2 comments:
I'm glad no one got hurt! Sounds like you had a lot of fun.
Yeah, it was pretty neat. Makes you think of the powers of nature.
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