A Piece of Heaven on Earth - Day 2

Day two had just started and since it was L's B-Day trip we decided it was time for a little be-earlied gift.

HOLY COW ...

I haven't seen this girl get SOOO EXCITED in a long time!

We have had walkie-talkies before but they were just the play kind and never really worked.
Since our last camping trip she had been asking to get a REAL walkie-talkie and what better place to test it than a cabin in the middle of nowhere ;)

After L had calmed down and raced all over the place using her walkie-talkie, giving us second-by-second updates on what she was doing, going to do or thinking of doing ...

we took off to see what we had come to see.

The Kokanee Salmon Run

Taylor Creek runs off Lake Tahoe and is the spawning place for Kokanee Salmon and Trout during October.

There were salmon everywhere. 

The stream was red and moving with fighting fish and egg laying fish, fish here and there and everywhere.

The circle of life concludes with mom and dad ending up as food for others after they buried their eggs in hopes of a new beginning, comes spring.

It was quite amazing to see it all so up-close.

These guys go through a tremendous change before leaving Lake Tahoe and swimming back upstream the creek.
They recognize their birthplace by smell and once they have arrived they spend a few days spawning, fighting for the best place and the best mate and then, once the task has been completed they just die. I wonder if these guys know whats coming and that life soon will be over?

After we saw the Salmon Run we drove over to Zephry Cove and enjoyed some Tahoe Blue-beach time.

Boy-oh-boy did these two little ones have fun ... and the big ones too na-course :)

Back at the cabin the Ls made some drawings of what they had learned about the Salmon that day.

Here you can see Lulu's Salmon :)

While L was working on an Activity Book about Salmon.

After supper it was "life saver" time ...

And then the little Jedies wanted to "marsh the mallows"

Back in the cabin we played a few mean games of "Tumblin' Monkeys" and enjoyed hot cocoa and a nice glass of wine (L loved the house wine ;)

And then we tucked in again, nice and cozy in our little cabin, in the middle of the woods, far-far-away from everything and everywhere.