As usual on the weekend, the campground has filled up. On our walk this morning, we noticed these two Casitas in neighboring sites. I talked with the owner of one, and he confirmed my hunch that they were friends.
Kids and bikes and campfires and just lots of people having fun in the outdoors. We like to see that.
Tonight we went to a ranger led night hike. The Coyote Run Hiking Trail looks much different in the dark than it does in daylight. We even spotted some glowworms, which we had never seen before. We didn't walk the whole trail, of course.
When the group stopped, the ranger had kids pick a crayon from his bucket in the dark and write their name on an index card along with the color they thought the crayon was. All the white lights were turned off, and the kids weren't supposed to look at the color name. The idea was to demonstrate that the cones in the retina don't operate much in the dark, and the rods see only black and white and shades of gray, so color vision is quite limited in the dark.
The ranger had told us in the parking lot that we were going to play a game to demonstrate echolocation, with kids playing the roles of bats and trees and such. We decided to leave before the program ended and walked back out to the parking lot by ourselves after telling the sweep (a camp host) that we were leaving. It was great to be out in the real dark and be able to see the stars.
We spent some time today trying to figure out the Medicare Part D RX plans for 2015. That's not much fun. Tonight we watched the season finale episode of the Bletchley Circle, which we had recorded some time ago.
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