Into the wild...part 2

Here is a good view of our little camp area. You can see our small wood pile just behind Gavin. The tent is to the left of the picture. As you can see, though, it definitely felt like we were in the woods and fairly alone.


Success! After letting this burn for awhile we had a lot of nice coals to cook our hot dogs and marshmallows. Thankfully, the smoke from the fire helped to keep away the mosquitoes that were quite plentiful just before dusk.


Here is the final picture of the day before reading books and attempting to sleep. Let's just say that in the night I think we spent more time awake than asleep. Between seeing all the bugs on the outside of the tent, hearing new, different sounds in the forest and not being able to figure out if a sleeping bag was supposed to be unzipped or zipped or whatever...not much sleep was had. Ultimately, Gavin ended up in my sleeping bag for a little bit of sleep, though I can't say that either of us slept much after that.

It was a great father/son experience that I am glad we were able to have, but we will probably wait a bit to attempt it again...or at least practice with the sleeping bags some more before the next trip.