Sweet Corn Cakes

Late start this morning but somehow we still made it up the hill in time to find fish for dinner. Mother nature got up close and personal with us this trip. On the hike up to the river we came across a pair of alligator lizard and as we picked our sections of the river to fish from Bert nearly stepped on top of a water snake.

You could see the fish in the water, but they didn't seem to care what we threw in the water, they weren't about to bite. Bert had a HUGE fish chase his kastmaster lure once, but it never bit and it didn't chase a second time. I was successful at catching 2 fish, but they were both small and we threw them back. The second fish almost didn't get off the hook and I decided I was done picking on baby fish for the day so I moved on to picking on other wildlife.

It's hard to see the small picture, but his tongue is out

Cliff came across another water snake so I made my way up close to it and took it's picture repeatedly until I was able to capture it with it's tongue out. Small victories.

Since it was already late in the day we decided to head back to camp and hike to the upper pool tomorrow.

Another delicious meal of fish, rice, and fresh steamed broccoli followed by a new treat from Cliff: sweet corn cakes. Oh my, those were YUMMY! They didn't even survive long enough out of the pan to cool, we were gobbling them up so fast. We will be hiking with that recipe again!


All the pictures from today