We have planned to visit several trail and creek spots this Summer. Technically this walk took place last weekend but I wanted to share it today with the Wednesday Walk Community initiated by 
Purpose:
#1 - To get the kids out of the house to enjoy nature; they are always asking to explore the woods
#2 - For exercise and better health; we always talk about how we need to get out and walk more
#3 - To scope out new places for photoshoots; we need more places lined up to take client photos.
We started out last weekend with visiting a conservation area near us. We got geared up with water, bandaids for scrapes, essential oils for bug bites and a few other necessities.
We got onto the mowed path and began our journey.
It was somewhat hot weather out but not too unbearable. There was a bit of cloud cover which helped quite a bit. There were several tall trees grouped together outside of the path.
Of course we heard and saw plenty of insects but I kept my cool with the bees. I really wanted us to get through the whole walk so I remained strong and didn’t even run from any. 😄
Funny story, my husband thought he found a new species of butterfly. We saw what looked like some type of quadrupled winged butterfly flying through the air only to realize once we got closer it was two butterflies mating. 😂
Some interesting wild plants where also spotted. It looks like this one may bloom something soon.
Our goal was to make it to a creek that was located at this place. We were going to allow the kids to explore, get their feet wet and see if this could be a potential location for our photography business. I must say we weren’t very impressed with this one for the latter purpose.
We are glad for the exercise opportunity as it was good to get out of the house and move around.
See, I told you I was calm about the bees. I took this next photo as proof. 😁
After walking for quite some time our little ones were beginning to complain about being tired and ready to go home. Lol, yeah it figures. My three year old ended up pitching back rides for the duration of our walk.
Once we reached this area we could view a long path ahead to what we weren’t sure of. I knew the creek was somewhere along this path but we decided to turn back and get the kids home. I didn’t have the energy to carry anyone else on my back and from the looks of it my five year old was going to be the next one riding.
If you look close at the next photo you can see a small amount of water and rocks. I think this leads up to the bigger creek but we may never know (don’t plan on going back to this one).
Since this walk we have pulled off 3 ticks. My youngest daughter, middle son and husband each had one on them. We didn’t realize they were there until two days later. We’ve been checking periodically just to make sure we didn’t miss any.
That’s one of the unfortunate things about going into nature is what you might bring back with you…or actually on you 😥. My kids weren’t too thrilled about the ticks and are okay if we never visit a trail again. It may be a little while but I’m sure we’ll still venture out to another one.
I admit, the job of pulling off ticks sucks. I hate that it hurts when pulling them off but I try to get as close to the skin as possible so I won’t have little pieces of it’s mouth to dig out later.
This concludes our walk experience. Hopefully next time I’ll be able to share some water shots with you from a better creek location. I need to recover from this tick pulling so don’t expect another walk post anytime too soon. 😜
All photos are my own and were taken with our Cannon EOS Rebel T6.
