Saturday Half Day!

Saturday 19^th

Saturdays are half work days, so I get off at 12.00.

Half of me says thank goodness and the other half asks what on earth I’m going to do all day.

I decided to go on a small hike on the cliff in an attempt to figure out how far over some caves are. Traveling sideways while going up is pretty difficult and slow, so I just guessed on how far over to go to get approximately under the caves, then started climbing up. I guessed incorrectly, and came back down. Going down is always much more difficult than going up. 


I had decided earlier to go hiking in shorts.

Shorts.

I knew my legs would get a little scratched, but didn't care much about that and didn’t think much of it.

Lately I’ve been worrying about snakes. There are rattlesnakes out here, and I heard that they like to be near water. Great. There are streams EVERYWHERE around here Roaring Springs, the water comes right from the cliff!

Notice the streams.

So I was worrying about that and then took this picture-

 to show where I’m afraid to go because of the snakes. and then I got stuck on a rock and had to jump right into that nice bright green bush pictured below.

This was my immediate reaction to stinging nettles.

My knees and shin got all mottled and gross.

I very nearly put some windex on it.

And thus ended my Saturday adventure. It proved to be very educational, and quite painful.