On getting lost

We think this is the right trail?

Vines

Spirit house in the woods

Where the trail turns to rock

Pool in the rock face

Still a ways to go up the mountain

You can’t see it well, but there was an amazing spider web in there!

View from the top

Huay Tung Tao lake

River view

Kyle and his hiking stick

The forest regrowing after a recent fire

Scorched jackfruit tree

The contrast of colors was beautiful

Ashes to ashes

Black to green

The soil was filled with this

Butterflies

The trees on the mountain have some of the biggest leaves I’ve ever seen

Abandoned termite/ant hill

Kyle at the end of the hike

We’ve been feeling a little cabin feverish lately, since the heat keeps us indoors more than we’d like.  So even though it was close to 100 degrees today, we headed out to the lake to go hiking.  We had heard and read about a trail that leads to a waterfall in the mountains above the lake, and thought we could find it on our own.

Nope.

We never did find the waterfall, but we had fun getting lost and following the small, unmarked trails that lead around the hillside.  It’s pretty hard to truly get lost, since you can head downhill from anywhere in the area and eventually hit the lake, but we were the only people out on the trail and the noise of everyone trying to cool off in the water just faded away.  Maybe once it cools down we’ll take a stab at finding the waterfall again, but even if we never do it was nice to take a day and enjoy the nature around us.