Fossils, Fires and Frogs

Today I gave the twins a few choices to find out what they wanted to do and the decision was to look for fossils and treasure hunt (i.e. geocache); I first had to explain what fossils were. Kyah just wanted to go to a park so she was easy to please.

There was an Earthcache, which is a type of geocache, up the Chilliwack River Valley by Slesse Creek which was at an area where we could look for fossils, we decided that would be our destination. After a quick stop at Timmys we headed up and into the bush. There were some people camping on the forest service road where we had to park to hunt for fossils, but other then that it was all quiet. We spent a good hour or so looking at rocks on the side of the creek and the kids had a great time throwing twigs and leaves in the creek and watching them float down; Cohen's favorite part was "saving" the leaves.

After looking for the fossils, and I think we found one but you have to look below for a picture, we cruised back down to the Chilliwack River for some traditional geocaches. The first one we looked for was around a unofficial campsite and it was absolutely disgusting to see the amount of garbage that was left around. The worst part was the ass hats who stayed there must have just left because their fire was still burning. It never ceases to amaze me how disrespectful people in this world are becoming. The fact that I can go camping with two 4 year olds, both of whom know it is "noddy" to litter, and not leave a trace while grown adults can not even put out a fire or pick up their garbage is mind boggling.

After searching around for the cache we gave up, took a quick peak at the Slesse Creek Cave, and headed off for our next cache. We found another cache up another forest service road, once again it was littered with garbage and yard waste, then took the back roads home through Mount Slesse, up the Chilliwack Army Forest Service Road, onto Chilliwack Bench Forest Service Road which took us to Ryder Lake. We took a break at a park up on Ryder Lake where the kids got to play on the swings and slides before heading home.

We had friends over for dinner which included the salmon I caught in Campbell River as well as some fresh Chilliwack corn; how can you go wrong with that! Thats all for this weekend folks; time permitting we will be heading camping for a day or two next weekend! Enjoy the pictures...

Looking for fossils

I think there is a fossil in this rock, the tree shaped thing, but I did not do too much research so I was not sure what I was looking for.

The kids had a lot of fun playing by the creek

Yes, people are this stupid

Slesse Creek Cave, an adventure for another day.

Kyah with a geocache and Cohen with an attitude

There was a cache behind this tree, too bad the loggers did not let this one live as it would have been a big one.

A cache down by the river

We saw this frog during our travels, the kids were pretty stoked.