Adventure #1
An adventure is a short trip to visit a number of places
we either haven't seen or need to see again. Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve Huron, Ohio Magee Marsh State Wildlife Area Oak Harbor, Ohio Castalia Quarry Metropark Castalia, Ohio Maumee Bay State Park Oregon, Ohio Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge Oak Harbor, Ohio
September 2, 2021 to September 3, 2021
Start 47,637 -- End 47,957 -- 320 miles
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for a higher resolution picture This is our first "Adventure". The idea is to move from spot to spot and discover neat things. And we did! Sheldon Marsh State Nature Preserve Our first stop was Sheldon Marsh where we learned that State Nature Preserves pretty much do not allow dogs. Most are shut off from dogs. Some have a short trail or two where dogs are allowed. In general, no dogs at State Nature Preserves. Castilia Quarry Reservation of the Erie County Metroparks This is REALLY cool and well worth a stop. This is an old rock quarry. There are paths into the quarry, around the outside and some in other areas. This place is both geologically cool and the vistas are pretty amazing. There are no real difficult grades. The whole park appears to be bicycle friendly. We did about four miles here. This is from inside the quarry:
From the rim trail.
What you don't see above is that they are both at a seventy-five foot shear drop. They just walk right up there without any thought of falling.
Magee Marsh State Wildlife Area This was a nice wetland walk. Not a long one, but a nice view of the area. Only did about a mile here as we did over four at Castalia.
Maumee Bay State Park Grabbed an open site for the night. For the evening before the Labor Day weekend the park was pretty quiet. Had a nice fire. A morning walk around the camp loop trail was like walking through a petting zoo! There were so many animals and so many smells. I didn't really expect to do the whole loop but the dogs were having such a good time we did the whole loop for a total of 3.5 miles.
The nightly Good-N-Fun chewy at the fire.
Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge This has some really neat birds, stuff we don't see except in a preserved wetland. There is a lot more walking available here. We did about four miles.
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