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10.06.08
New Jersey
This morning started with a close encounter
with a member of the local wildlife. I got
stung
on the butt by a bloody wasp!
Ouch, ouch, ouch!
I’ve never before seen such a mean looking
bug. Didn’t
look anything like our wasps.
* (P.S. I was wrong! Saw
one in the garden the other day.
It's what we call a paper wasp. I still think the one that
stung me was way huger and
way meaner!)
This is what it looked like ....
.... and this was where it was hiding, ready to attack.
The campground shower block!
Said goodbye to the groundhogs
and of course
I didn’t have my camera with me when I went
to check out the burrow. Missed out on a good
photo
as one of them was sitting right in the
entrance looking at me. Bugga!
I loved the forest around our camp site.
Travelled
through Pennsylvania’s very
picturesque countryside into New Jersey.
The freeways are quite often made from
concrete
and in places can become quite
‘rough’ with the sound of the tyres on the
road sounding more like the wheels
of a
train. The ‘clicketty, click’ is transformed
into a very uncomfortable ‘bumpety, bump’.
I’m
certain we were travelling on the freeway
that has the bumpiest bumps in America and
I was cursing that blasted wasp
by the time
we had gotten to our days’ destination.
Finding the State Park camping area at
Voorhees was
accomplished just in time
for us to settle in before a storm hit.
The temperatures have been quite
oppressive
during this trip, most days in
the 90s (fahrenheit), so the thunder and
lightening was a welcome
sign that
a rainstorm was approaching. Despite
not lasting all that long it did manage to
cool the evening to a comfortable
temperature.
We had the whole place to ourselves ....
The
campground was really lovely but
seemed completely deserted. There
wasn’t even an office to book into.
I decided
that the signs posted saying
we were in bear country must have
had something to do with it.
The bears had eaten everyone!!!
.... I wonder why?
Bears were forgotten
about when Dad
called me out to see my first fireflies.
What a gorgeous sight. They just looked
like hundreds of
‘Tinkerbelles’; the trees
were full of fairies!
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