As I alluded to in today's Flotsam and Jetsam, it is Spring Break for schools here, and Georgia got a notion that we should take Gabby on a hike. She selected a trail at
Calvert Cliffs State Park, a few miles south, which has a number of trails from the main park area down to a short beach. It is one of the few truly public access to the beach in the County.
Using the shortest trail, the red trail, it's still a 1.8 mile hike down to the beach. It's an easy trail, which starts along a small stream, which then widens out into a vast, beaver pond filled wetland before finally emptying into the Bay.
Gabby did pretty well on the way down, only getting a case of the "are we there yets" around 2/3ds of the way down. Mostly, she looked for fallen trees (lots), and butterflies (the Spring Azures and Tiger Swallowtails are out), water beetles, frogs and turtles.
Duck tails.
We reached the beach in due time, and given the warm weather, there were lots of visitors. Not that I really needed to, but I did make a couple of passes up and down the short beach and found 8 sharks teeth, all small and pretty worn. I would say it's easier here than our home beach.
Despite the slight uphill, we made the walk back up pretty easily, with Gabby leading the charge, with energy to spare to spend a half hour at the playground at the park.
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