Adventure Time

 
About a week and a half ago Curtis and I went on our first adventure in a long time.  He finally had a Saturday off work (for the first time this summer) and the weather was perfect.  We decided to try to find the waterfall at the Cowley State Fishing Lake.  For some reason I had never even heard of it until recently.  I tend to avoid this lake because you can't swim there and I prefer river fishing to lake fishing.  However, we decided that we would devote our Saturday to finding the waterfall.  I was told that it's a little tricky to find and get to.

So we drove out to the lake and slowly made our way around it.  It's much bigger than it originally seems.  To get the the waterfall you have to go as far west as you can around the lake.  So basically at each fork you go left.  When you finally get to the end of the road stop your car and get out.  You can't see the waterfall from the road, but you can hear it.  So you follow your ears and there is a little trail that leads from the road to the top of the waterfall.

The view from the top.

Then you can kind of pick your way down to the bottom to the little creek.  It was so pretty, and it was a perfect day for some light hiking/rock climbing.  I would not recommend it to anyone who is any more pregnant than me, because it might be a little difficult to navigate the rocks if you're worried about a baby. 

Navigating some rocks.

We found it!

After we finished with our adventure we went in to Dexter to Henry's Candy Co. (the creators of the Oh Henry! candy bar) and got some lemon drops for the road.  It was a great day!

Here is the link to the Cowley Lake Waterfall page.