Flowing Water

I traveled to Turkey Run State Park this past weekend. With the recent rain and melting snow I was hoping to get some photo's of water flowing through the canyons. That is exactly what I found. This was a good trip and I am happy with the quality of these photo's. I hope you enjoy them as much I do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here some non-water flow pictures

 

 

 

 

 

 

Damn it, Damn It, Damn it!

For those who just want to see my latest Turkey Run pictures click here to skip past the story. Its probably for the best anyway. I am not very good at expressing myself in the written word. I am thinking about working on that. I am not sure how yet.
Well the Turkey Run trip did not go as well as I wanted it to. I was really looking forward to the trip all week. I have been in need of something to cheer me up. I was off work the last week of October to setup my Halloween display. That was a big a dissapopintment. I have been feeling blue for a long while and the Halloween vacation made it much worse. See my other blog Thomas's Stuff for details of how that went sometime soon.
Anyway as I was driving to Turkey Run Saturday morning I realized about 15 miles into the drive that I had no cash on me! I have no idea if they take credit cards. Should I go back home and see if I can find some cash laying around the house? If I do I will end up adding 30 miles to the trip and waste about half and hour. I have already started later than I wanted too. What happens if I keep going and they don't take credit cards? I will be really bummed if that happens
I decide to keep going.
I arrive at the gate and ask the lady park ranger if they take credit cards. Yes we do she says. Thank you very much I say. I made the right choice.
After paying the admission fee I drive into the parkling lot and park. I get out of the van, do some stretching and then start checking my backpack. Two bottles of water, 50mm primary lens, 75-250mm zoom lens, tripod, camera? Where is my camera. Damn it, Damn it, Damn it where is my camera?!?!? I CAN NOT BELIEVE I DID NOT PACK MY CAMERA! This darkened my mood for at least an hour and a half.
I did have my Samsung Galaxy Player with me. I was using it to listen to music while driving It is an Android device that is everything but a phone. Or as a co-worker calls it my "Android phone that is not a phone". It has an app that I use to I use to track my hiking miles and time. It does have a camera but it only takes OK pictures. Some time half way though the day it crash on me and I later found out I lost all the photo's I had taken before then.

The photo's that did survive that day
The newly repaired Suspension Bridge. As you ca see there is some fall color still. But in most of the park the leave were a week or two past their peak.


Some crazy stairs in Gypsy Gulch


A small section of Turkey Run Hollow.


An interesting curved stone wall near the Punch Bowl

The setting sun reflecting off of Sugar Creek

Exploring a different part of the Wabash Heritage Trail

Destination: Exploring a different part of the Wabash Heritage Trail
Miles hiked: 9
Camera: Nikon D40
Lens: Nikon AF-S DX 18-55MM 1:3-5.6 GII

Today I was just trying out a different part of the trail. I started at a new park called Trailhead Park. Driving to this park instead of walking from home to the trail allows me to go further on the trail. I have only been on this part of the trail once this year. That's when I walked from my home, to the trail, all the way to the north end of the trail at Tippecanoe Battlefield Park, and then back part of the way to the Davis Ferry Park. That was a 17 mile hike. My longest recorded hike so far.

This is the "quickest" way to the the Buried Cars of yesterdays post. I did not time it but it may only be 30 - 45 minutes to the cars from Trailhead Park.

Here are a few photo's from the trail

A random picnic table a the side of the trail

Wood fungus

An interesting two armed tree. This is the left side

And here is the right side

Some rusting iron work from the old Davis Ferry Bridge

And a little more with a spider web.

Turkey Run State Park

I visited Turkey Run State Park last month. I spent about 7 hours hiking about the park. From about 12pm to 7pm.

I can not express how much I enjoyed my visit. The trees, canyons and other rock formations were were amazing. It felt like I was walking in a mystical place. I plan on going back soon and camping for the weekend.

I took over 400 pictures, most of which were not very good. I am still learning to use my camera. The low light conditions were a challenge for me. But I did get some good shots. Here are a few.

These are some photo's of the canyons.

Some water falls.

Some dead wood.

The River

Stone steps.

Follow this link to see the rest of the photo's from this set. Thanks for looking.