Total Miles - 552
Departed - Narrows at Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
Arrived - Clyde Holliday State Park, east of John Day, Oregon
Due to a really good deal we actually had save $20 by booking the Narrows RV park for 4 nights. We spent another fun morning birding at Park HQ with Turtle and Hawk at Headquarters we saw numerous small birds and a few in flight. We had met Bob and Bettina down in Patagonia Lake last winter. Good birders!
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| 3 great birders and one clueless shooter |
Me - So what do you want to do for the rest of the day.
Her - Oh, I am trying to figure out what birding to do..Do I want to go look for those burrowing owls?
Me - I have an idea. (uh oh) It's still early in the day and the day is long. Let's head out of here up north, refuel in Burns and check out that pesky Jeep tire with slow leak, then see if we want to spend the night at Idlywild campground up in the mountain forest? If not then keep going. Whaddya think?
Her - Hmm. Yeah, I am ready to move on.
And just like that we began to pack up. I still had the blog post to finish with XXX rated bird photos
so she began packing up. When I finished, we then completed the packing (about 20 minutes), dumped waste, hooked up and off we go.
We stopped at Idlewild campground about 17 miles north of Burns around 2:30. Nice forest service campground with 3 pull throughs in which we would have fit. We walked around for about an hour looking for the Black Backed Wooedpecker whom our friends, Turtle and Hawk, had seen last week. Would have been a new bird sighting for Sraddha, however we just weren't' feeling it.
This is the great thing about not having a fixed schedule we really like. We looked at each other and agreed that is was, again, time to move on. I love flexibility and spontaneity. Very different from even 6 months ago.
Long story short, we drove another 70 miles to John Day, then west 8 miles to Clyde Holliday State Park. Now this park is on the John Day river and absolutely beautiful. Yet right near highway. AND they don't take reservations. We gambled that, since it was the end of Memorial Day weekend, there might just be a couple sites open, which there were. Not the prime sites, but we managed to select a decent site, unhooked, drove down the reverse direction so we could back in easily and settled in for the night.
Instead of departing Malheur Refuge with 140 miles to drive to the John Day Fossil Beds, we are not less than 30 miles to go this morning. Good decision.
We stopped at Idlewild campground about 17 miles north of Burns around 2:30. Nice forest service campground with 3 pull throughs in which we would have fit. We walked around for about an hour looking for the Black Backed Wooedpecker whom our friends, Turtle and Hawk, had seen last week. Would have been a new bird sighting for Sraddha, however we just weren't' feeling it.
This is the great thing about not having a fixed schedule we really like. We looked at each other and agreed that is was, again, time to move on. I love flexibility and spontaneity. Very different from even 6 months ago.
Long story short, we drove another 70 miles to John Day, then west 8 miles to Clyde Holliday State Park. Now this park is on the John Day river and absolutely beautiful. Yet right near highway. AND they don't take reservations. We gambled that, since it was the end of Memorial Day weekend, there might just be a couple sites open, which there were. Not the prime sites, but we managed to select a decent site, unhooked, drove down the reverse direction so we could back in easily and settled in for the night.
Instead of departing Malheur Refuge with 140 miles to drive to the John Day Fossil Beds, we are not less than 30 miles to go this morning. Good decision.
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| our campsite at Clyde Holliday State Park |
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