Showing posts with label Raystown Lake. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Raystown Lake. Show all posts

Sunday, July 26, 2015

Trough Creek & Raystown Lake


I am linking up with   Mosaic Monday and Our World Tuesday  

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Back in June, hubby and I took a daytrip to Trough Creek State Park and the Raystown Lake and Dam in Pennsylvania.

I read about this park on Felicia's Blog and we are always looking for new places and parks to visit. Felicia's photography is awesome, my images do not compare but I hope you enjoy.

At the park we took the hike to the Suspension Bridge, Rainbow Falls and the Balance Rock.


It felt a little shaky while crossing, but is was fun.  And while crossing the bridge I saw a  Great Blue Heron flying down stream. During this outing I heard more birds than I actually saw.



Here is the Rainbow Falls, I was hoping for a little more water on the falls.  I assume there had not been enough rain in this area at the right time.


We saw a lot of butterflies while at the Balance Rock. One Tawny Emperor was attracted to my hand.


Silly hubby laying under the balance rock, if it fell it would go the other way.

More butterflies were seen around our picnic area.


This is the Red-spotted Purple, a weird name for a butterfly.


Raystown Lake and some wildflowers.


A pretty view of the Raystown Lake and some of the wildflowers.


A few Killdeer were seen at the lookout at the Raystown Dam . I have a lot more images from our visit to this area I may do another post.  I hope you enjoyed our visit to the park. As always thank you for visiting my post and for the nice comments.  Have a happy new week ahead!

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I hope you can join in on our fun with Mosaic Monday  and Our World Tuesday 


 Thanks to Judith our host of Mosaic Monday and to the hosting group of Our World Tuesday: Arija, Gattina, Lady Fi, Sylvia, Sandy and Jennifer and to Monica for hosting NF Trees.


Happy Monday!

W ishing everyone a great day and a happy new week! "One of the great things about National Parks is they belong to everyone." Oba...