Thursday, June 27, 2013

Starved Rock State Park - St Louis Canyon

This was one of my favorite canyons, probably because it was the easiest to hike into and out of. With the others you have to hike up and down the bluff at least once. For St Louis you drive in off the main road and park almost at the bottom of the canyon so the hike in is pretty flat.









The entire hike in you're deep in the woods and all you notice is the trees, then suddenly you round a corner and realize there are vertical cliff walls on both sides of you.

Ducks

 As we were closing up the house to head south for the winter 2 pairs of Mallard Ducks showed up on our pond. We have tons of geese most of ...