To celebrate Reuben's hard earned walking skills our family made a visit to Congaree National Park. Congaree National Park is about 20 minutes from our place and home to "the largest remnant of old growth floodplain forest on the continent!"
The trees are massive and the birding amazing. In less than a mile I saw a huge pileated woodpecker and heard two more. We also heard a Eastern Screech owl, a barred owl and a lot of other smaller song birds.
Most people like to call the park a swamp, but it's not a swamp. It's a floodplain forest. Which means it's a forest that's almost always flooded and swampy. And beautiful.
Reuben didn't want to be carried. He insisted on walking. INSISTED. ADAMANTLY.
After a mile and a half Reuben still wanted to walk.
He then decided to pick up leaves off the boardwalk and exam each one for a minute or two.
Then we'd through them over the side.
I was fine with that. I figured, he'll throw a couple leaves off and then we'll move on. But it's fall, so there were a LOT of leaves. Here he's about half way done with the deck.
Finally we got moving again.
And just so you know, Aaron was there too. Here he is stuffing Reuben up a hollow, bat filled cypress tree.
And he helped Reuben pet a cypress knee.
And we had a great time at the wonderful nature center.
4 comments:
Looks like a fun hike. It must be heart-warming to see Reuben enjoying nature! I guess everything is interesting at that age.
I love his byu jacket and his ranger hat! I'm impressed at how far he walked.
We've been thinking of doing a road trip down to visit this park. Will is still be worth visiting in the winter months?
It's not as pretty in the winter but it's still interesting and a lot more comfortable than in the summer when it's steamy hot. While I miss the lushness, the giant trees, cypress knees and swamp itself are always there and unique.
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