Home is Where you Park It!

I bought myself a t-shirt with that saying on it!  I couldn’t help myself … the devil made me do it (ha!ha!).

The Newhalem Campground in the North Cascades National Park is so beautiful I decided to devote one whole blog to it.  This will show you some of the flora and fauna within our campground and our RV as it sits inside this wooded wonderland.

Many of the sites can easily accommodate RV’s although there are limited amenities in this National Park campground.  No electricity, no water, no sewer, no cable, and there are too many trees for our Dish to work.  We are down to books and DVDs (if we turn on the generator) … gasp!  They do have nice, clean restrooms with flush toilets; however, no showers and no hot water!!  This is what you would call “roughing it” especially if you are tent camping and there are tenters here.

We are in Campsite #86.  It is a circular drive-through site, and we initially tried driving directly into it but it was a close call with the trees on one side (literally inches away from the side of the RV) so Gary decided we would be much better off to unhitch the Jeep and then back out and try entering the site in from the far end. That worked out just fine … whew!

Gary wanted to say “HI” to ya’ll …

 

Sherwood and Sadie are also enjoying the little bit of freedom they have at this sparsely populated campground. We let them roam around in our campsite where there’s this great tent area.  Here's Sherwood, master of his universe!  That grody thing in front of him is a bone he found in the campsite.  Leave it to Sherwood to find the unfindable!

Here's Sadie, daddy's little girl.  She adores Gary and thinks the sun rises and sets on him (in case you can't see that!).

 

Wild blueberries are all over the place.  Here’s what a wild blueberry bush looks like in case you’ve never seen one.  I hadn’t until we were at Netarts in Oregon.  Netarts also had wild blueberries along the creek by the campground.

This next series of photographs were taken as we walked through our campground loop.  As you can see, it’s the same lush, mossy-laden, forested woodland as on the River Walk Trail (I'll get to that one in a later blog).  I mean with 110" of rain a year what wouldn't look like this?

 

 

 

 

 

 
We even caught a little bit of the local wildlife.  This is the only wildlife we’ve seen in the Cascades so far!

So that’s the beautiful environment that we’re in for four days.  We’re “roughing it” but making out just fine.

One last note about our camping experience here in the Cascades – it’s our last day and it started raining at 3:00 a.m. this morning with rain projected to last until tomorrow morning.  Just another rainy day in the Cascades!  Needless to say, we are hunkered down and enjoying the time reading and blogging.

Isaiah 44:23 // Shout for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done it! Shout joyfully, you lower parts of the earth; break forth into a shout of joy, you mountains, O forest, and every tree in it; for the LORD has redeemed Jacob and in Israel He shows forth His glory.